If you want to see huge icons that go overboard, one word: WORKBENCH. I believe Workbench(for the amiga) let you have icons as big as you wanted, and its GUI was 10 times as uglier as X Windows.
Why doesn't this come as a big surprise? Actually, this article shouldn't get any more comments than this one. Everybody already knows that open-source security models have the future,
Open souce blah blah blah have the future huh? That sounds more like your fantasy, since you can't predict the future. I mean, a year ago, you could of said that "rioting, looting, massive computer failures, and killer attack robots" have the future for the Y2K disaster. So far, I have not seen any killer attack robots in my neighborhood.
This looks like an interesting opportunity for Quality Assurance work for Linux kernel stuff. Hmm, of course I wouldn't know where to start, what/how to test it, or even how to do a full-fledged system test. BUT, hey, it's a door waiting to be opened
I think I remember seeing the Johnny Carson show, where Johnny's stagehands set up the props(un-bent spoons, etc) for him instead of Uri himself.
He proceeded up with some weird excuse and didn't even try to bend the spoons. Sure, take away his props, and suddenly he can't perform his magic tricks.
Congratulations. The 8448 that I got for Xmas has a 5 speed *with reverse* now if only it had a working clutch...
They did? OH great. They just launched the Sputnik of Lego transmissions. Now I gotta catch up with a 6 speed transmission. You see, that's my dream job, to actually design new Technic sets for a living. If there was a part I needed to have made, I could of just had a custom one(like filling in the gap of technic gears they have) made and introduced into the lego part family.
I finally solved a problem I've been working on for several years: a Technic four-speed transmission done my way. Sure, the SuperCar(the coolest Technic set ever) 8880 has it, but no reverse. Last friday I was really bored at work, so I laid out my (flawed) plan that has been sitting on graph paper for years, and finally ironed out the kinks. Now I just need to get drawing again and put the plans on my website, and look for a place on it(so the gears don't get in the way of each other) to implement reverse. It's tricky, but can be done.
And after I finished that, I found an alternate way using universal joints to make odd, but nicely spaced gear combinations.
Why am I not surprised the "first post" of the year 2000 was done none other by Anonymous Coward? I'm betting the legion of anonymous cowards are having a major celebration that they did the ultimate first post of first posts, the first post of y2k. Print it out on your favorite HP printer and frame it, you've earned it!
Yeah right, beautiful women in skin-tight Matrix-esque Avenger-like black vinyl cat suits inspect poultry for a living. Maybe in your futurama fantasy world they do. Ouch. Like Vendela in that silver dress. This is a step up from her Hardee's commercials. I'm still looking for Angelina Jolie to be wearing the latest rubber outfit and portable computer(that you can't even see) for "high school lunch lady of the future"
Wait, was there something about portable computers I missed?
Heh. I've so far seen the busty chick with an obvious push-up bra, then several months ago I saw the blonde who looks like the poster child for being an airhead. Collect them all!
The US Army and various SWAT units use a 'remote control' version of an AR-15 for situations too 'high-risk' for exposed personel. It's tripod mounted, and has a variable-zoom scope attached to a CCD camera. The whole unit is operated over wire with a CRT and joystick. type video transmitter could almost be a cost-effective means of World Domination!
It's been done already, and they are called Daleks. Created by a guy named Davros.
Heh heh heh. I love this thread. With my limited xperiences, I'd choose MS media player over Realwhatever. Why? Windows Media Player doesn't give me 2000 shopping ads, nags me for registration, nags me to upgrade, or gives me constnat opportunites to watch UPN comedies and RIck Dees over streaming audio/video. Nope, I just want whatever I clicked on to watch/view. How hard is that? I don't need a damn system try icon either.
I'm seeing the linux zealots squirm over this one. Wah! its not open source! wah! im out of moderator points to mod this post down! This sounds like a mission for the Open Source Rangers!
I got to borrow a HERO robot(the scaled down model without the cool arm), and the most it did with my experiences is walk around a bit, get stuck and yell "help!" until I turned it around.
That thing was boxy, and not very pleasing. This R100 looks like a cybernetic weeble.
I started with RH 5.2, with a messed up Diamond Stealth S220. With a minor bit of research, I was able to get it to 800x600 and use it. In terms of Xconfigurator, it is a pain in the ass program to use. I have/had no idea what the "clock rate" of the card, and never needed to know that under Windows. As for when Xconfigurator asked me what my monitor was, it was a Zeos. A quick look on the back of the monitor told me the right model number, actually being a CTX.
I've used my share of video cards on X, and no matter what I seem to do, it insists on shifting the display(in X) to the right and up a bit, so when i dock down to text mode, I have to adjust the display's placement over with the knobs. In Windows, I never had to do this. ARgh.
Have they come out with a search engine yet, that, before giving you the results for your keyword searches, TAKES OUT the 404 errors? That would be something nice. Do your keyword search, and then have the search engine check each and every link to see if there's a 404 or whatever, and if there is, take it out of the results before it hands it over, and save the results it for next time in case someone else does the search.
On a news segment, it showed one brand of copiers that messed up a dollar bill being copied on the printout. THEN they showed you how to circumvent it(gotta love those news people). You also put on a color photo when you're copying the dollar bill, and boom, instant copy defeat.
Yes I heard about this story too. Don't remember much on the details, other than that the lambo was only for using drug running, and the cops didn't seem to care much when he sped by at 150+.
Interesting. I have a 98 system and 2 linux boxes running. For hours I was fighting with samba in and out trying to get it to work. It didn't work until I tured ON encrypted passwords. Strange. But now i know the secret without having to read the Samba in 24 hours book.
Wow, is this the first MS story on slashdot that's of actual reading value that isn't showing MS in a negative light? I'm completely surprised. Maybe things are changing for the better here.
I remember her. The first time I saw her on TV was on a short lived Sitcom called "Oh, Madeline!". In one episode, she gets stuck in a suana for the whole ep.
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If you want to see huge icons that go overboard, one word: WORKBENCH. I believe Workbench(for the amiga) let you have icons as big as you wanted, and its GUI was 10 times as uglier as X Windows.
Why doesn't this come as a big surprise?
Actually, this article shouldn't get any more comments than this one. Everybody already knows that open-source security models have the future,
Open souce blah blah blah have the future huh? That sounds more like your fantasy, since you can't predict the future. I mean, a year ago, you could of said that "rioting, looting, massive computer failures, and killer attack robots" have the future for the Y2K disaster. So far, I have not seen any killer attack robots in my neighborhood.
So is any of these companys going to do anything with Amiga, or are they just gonna pass the trademark from company to company?
That sounds like a good start, but my linux knowledge is next to nil.
Hmm, that just gave me an idea
1. Learn linux front to back
2. Start doing hobbyist QA work for linux software/distros
3. As soon as I get recognition, start company that does QA work for linux & its apps
4. Go IPO crazy!@#!@#
Yeah, easy money baby. heh.
This looks like an interesting opportunity for Quality Assurance work for Linux kernel stuff. Hmm, of course I wouldn't know where to start, what/how to test it, or even how to do a full-fledged system test. BUT, hey, it's a door waiting to be opened
I think I remember seeing the Johnny Carson show, where Johnny's stagehands set up the props(un-bent spoons, etc) for him instead of Uri himself.
He proceeded up with some weird excuse and didn't even try to bend the spoons. Sure, take away his props, and suddenly he can't perform his magic tricks.
Congratulations. The 8448 that I got for Xmas has a 5 speed *with reverse* now if only it had a working clutch...
They did? OH great. They just launched the Sputnik of Lego transmissions. Now I gotta catch up with a 6 speed transmission. You see, that's my dream job, to actually design new Technic sets for a living. If there was a part I needed to have made, I could of just had a custom one(like filling in the gap of technic gears they have) made and introduced into the lego part family.
Okay, it's not Mindstorms related but...
I finally solved a problem I've been working on for several years: a Technic four-speed transmission done my way. Sure, the SuperCar(the coolest Technic set ever) 8880 has it, but no reverse. Last friday I was really bored at work, so I laid out my (flawed) plan that has been sitting on graph paper for years, and finally ironed out the kinks. Now I just need to get drawing again and put the plans on my website, and look for a place on it(so the gears don't get in the way of each other) to implement reverse. It's tricky, but can be done.
And after I finished that, I found an alternate way using universal joints to make odd, but nicely spaced gear combinations.
Why am I not surprised the "first post" of the year 2000 was done none other by Anonymous Coward? I'm betting the legion of anonymous cowards are having a major celebration that they did the ultimate first post of first posts, the first post of y2k. Print it out on your favorite HP printer and frame it, you've earned it!
Yeah right, beautiful women in skin-tight Matrix-esque Avenger-like black vinyl cat suits inspect poultry for a living. Maybe in your futurama fantasy world they do. Ouch. Like Vendela in that silver dress. This is a step up from her Hardee's commercials. I'm still looking for Angelina Jolie to be wearing the latest rubber outfit and portable computer(that you can't even see) for "high school lunch lady of the future"
Wait, was there something about portable computers I missed?
Heh. I've so far seen the busty chick with an obvious push-up bra, then several months ago I saw the blonde who looks like the poster child for being an airhead. Collect them all!
The US Army and various SWAT units use a 'remote control' version of an AR-15 for situations too 'high-risk' for exposed personel. It's tripod mounted, and has a variable-zoom scope attached to a CCD camera. The whole unit is operated over wire with a CRT and joystick.
type video transmitter could almost be a cost-effective means of World Domination!
It's been done already, and they are called Daleks. Created by a guy named Davros.
Heh heh heh. I love this thread. With my limited xperiences, I'd choose MS media player over Realwhatever. Why? Windows Media Player doesn't give me 2000 shopping ads, nags me for registration, nags me to upgrade, or gives me constnat opportunites to watch UPN comedies and RIck Dees over streaming audio/video. Nope, I just want whatever I clicked on to watch/view. How hard is that? I don't need a damn system try icon either.
I'm seeing the linux zealots squirm over this one. Wah! its not open source! wah! im out of moderator points to mod this post down! This sounds like a mission for the Open Source Rangers!
OPEN SOURCE POWERS ACTIVATE!!!
I got to borrow a HERO robot(the scaled down model without the cool arm), and the most it did with my experiences is walk around a bit, get stuck and yell "help!" until I turned it around.
That thing was boxy, and not very pleasing. This R100 looks like a cybernetic weeble.
I started with RH 5.2, with a messed up Diamond Stealth S220. With a minor bit of research, I was able to get it to 800x600 and use it. In terms of Xconfigurator, it is a pain in the ass program to use. I have/had no idea what the "clock rate" of the card, and never needed to know that under Windows. As for when Xconfigurator asked me what my monitor was, it was a Zeos. A quick look on the back of the monitor told me the right model number, actually being a CTX.
I've used my share of video cards on X, and no matter what I seem to do, it insists on shifting the display(in X) to the right and up a bit, so when i dock down to text mode, I have to adjust the display's placement over with the knobs. In Windows, I never had to do this. ARgh.
Wow, Slashdot spam. This is new.
If the Onion had a news section covering Linux, this could easily be the top headline.
Have they come out with a search engine yet, that, before giving you the results for your keyword searches, TAKES OUT the 404 errors? That would be something nice. Do your keyword search, and then have the search engine check each and every link to see if there's a 404 or whatever, and if there is, take it out of the results before it hands it over, and save the results it for next time in case someone else does the search.
Reference #2 to this story:
"Electric Eye" by Judas Priest
Remember, it 'contracts' muscles. I do not see this helping -anyone- score....
What if it could do kegel exercises for you for 3 hours each day?
On a news segment, it showed one brand of copiers that messed up a dollar bill being copied on the printout. THEN they showed you how to circumvent it(gotta love those news people). You also put on a color photo when you're copying the dollar bill, and boom, instant copy defeat.
Yes I heard about this story too. Don't remember much on the details, other than that the lambo was only for using drug running, and the cops didn't seem to care much when he sped by at 150+.
Interesting. I have a 98 system and 2 linux boxes running. For hours I was fighting with samba in and out trying to get it to work. It didn't work until I tured ON encrypted passwords. Strange. But now i know the secret without having to read the Samba in 24 hours book.
Wow, is this the first MS story on slashdot that's of actual reading value that isn't showing MS in a negative light? I'm completely surprised. Maybe things are changing for the better here.
I remember her. The first time I saw her on TV was on a short lived Sitcom called "Oh, Madeline!". In one episode, she gets stuck in a suana for the whole ep.