So, I was like trying to burn some porn on to a CD, but then my PC was like beep beep beep beep beep beep, and then it mailed all my pown to everyone on my email list without me knowing about it and it changed the settings for the CD-RW so it froze and I needed to go get another one. And it was a really good CD-RW too but I didn't have enough money left to get one that was as good.
Andrew Morton then continued... 'One popular company to be affected by the bug was the OSDN. Their technology news site Slashdot.org updated their database server with the new 2.4.20 kernal.'
It was a disaster. 'The problem was with syncing during unmount. When the people at Slashdot upgraded, their databases became corrupted. Suddenly, duplicate stories began to appear!'
Added Andrew, 'Wow, duplicate stories. There's a shocker'
The full interview will be availible soon on The Onion
Andrew Morton wrote:> >... > The fix is to only apply the optimisation to inodes which are operating > under data=ordered. >
That "fix" didn't fix it. Sorry about that.
Please avoid ext3/data=journal until it is sorted out.
WELL. It seems that the Open Source people ARE on top of it, but please, don't turn a Linux bug into a way to bash Microsoft. A better comment would have been "Hm. Well, they did screw up but they are fixing it".
Klez and ILOVEYOU all have fixes. A lazy person who doesn't update and patch will have an unsecure system regardless of if it runs Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, or ANYTHING.
And no, people who run Linux ARN'T smarter and WON'T update more consistantly, they just prefer Linux. And yes, newbies are more likely to be running Windows, but they wouldn't update no matter what OS they are on. And while newbies are more likely to run Windows, Gurus are NOT more likely to run *nix. It's getting old. You like Linux? Great. I'm sure that although things could be better you are very happy with your OS. I run Windows. Great. Although things could be better, I'm very happy with mine.
*cough* well, MP3 and OGG are both lossy formats. But both, with different algorithums to determain what data to keep, and which to toss. SO, you have converted from one lossy format to another. Getting the worst of both worlds. A note to others: DO NOT convert from MP3 to OGG and wonder why it sounds like crap.
Really then. Freaky? I'm assuming you meen the MDI layout. One which I can't get enough of. But alas, that is an option you can turn off. In fact, you can even distribute your own EXE to your 'customers' with your own links, icons, title, settings, and more over at the Opera Composer. If you wanna check it out, log in with 'Someone@someone.com' password 'someone'. VERY nice that composer.
Very true. I wanted to purchace a replacement capasitor many years ago.... the salesman had no idea what the difference between them all was. I pointed to the capasitance and he said Ooooohhhh! The numbers have to match!
My GOD!
RadioShack: You've got questions we can't answer (TM)
Hey, you laugh...but they arn't. They now know your average demographic, and pick a product to suit it. Well, that or you start seeing pictures of this on the side of the road...
So, they give us a disk with normal, unencripted audio and some audio locked down to only playing in their system. Hmmmm.... I don't know about you, but I'm sure there is gotta be a way to play the NORMAL, UNENCRIPTED audio over the PC. And once we have that, there is a way to rip it to ogg/wav/mp2/mp3/whatever. Sony, you are trying to lock out the computer savvy audience using methods developed to keep the 'average listner' from burning/ripping. Well, 'average listners' DON'T burn/rip. COMPUTER SAVVY listners burn/rip. And COMPUTER SAVVY people are not only going to not accept this, they are going to break it. And once that is broken, all it takes is one rip to open it up to EVERYONE for downloading.
And in that story, the WHOLE paper is gone? On the ad it's only half, and then in the interview it was three pages. Hmmmmmmm... Well, she WAS high on alergy meds at the time so who really knows? It was like beep beep beep beep beep beep and then some unknown amount was gone.
It goes from point 'a' to point 'b'. If you don't live in point 'a' and want to go to point 'b' then it really doesn't have much purpose. When I say mass-transit, I mean the Metro bus system. It is able to serve more people more efficiantly. Work on that, and once it's stabalized go to the fancy monorails.
The monorail is the last thing Seattle should be worrying about. I live there and trust me, the highway system needs attention and FAST. Traffic is terible, and the Metro bus system got funding cut. Yes, I'm glad the monorail is going ahaid but due to the consept of a monorail only few people are going to be able to regularly use it. Work on our roads and mass transit first thank you very much.
Opera! It's got a wide array of privacy features. You can not only turn off cookies, images, GIF animation, and all that, but you can do it on the fly by pressing the F12 key. Also, you can choose not to send reffer information along to the site, if you don't want them to know where you came from. One more thing, you can choose to identify as Opera, MSIE, and from 3 different versions of Mozilla. And that's just in the 6.x version, the 7 beta is now availible for download from opera.com!
Now I'm not the average slashbot who runs nothing but Linux from his home computer to his coffie machine, but what I got from the article is that Microsoft is sustaining a foot in the door of a market that doesn't want them. If they are loosing money making mice and keyboards, our economy is set up so they would have to inovate or go out of business. Microsoft is the exception to the rule. They can keep on producing their products even after the market has voted them as the weekest link. The fact that Microsoft is using sales of its other products to continue to produce infirior hardware is not fair to the consumers who have already choosen Logitech and Genius. Two companys who produce amazing hardware and make a profit at it. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure how long I'd last without MY Genius NetMouse Pro.
The TiVo Community has lots of technical people all working on everything TiVo. It was fetured on Slashdot a little while ago on the story "Distributed TiVo Code Cracking".
Open source is GREAT for some applications, and it's totaly inapropreate for others. Yes, lots of flaws would be fixed... but lots of other flaws would be discovered by the WRONG people and exploited. I remember a story on slashdot a while ago further back in the Mircosoft trial where someone high up on the MS chain said that releasing the source of Windows would provide to be a threat to national security because of all the security flaws. While I'm sure these voting systems have much fewer if any bugs releasing the source would allow groups of hackers to work from their homes studying the code and checking for insecuritys. While at the moment, voting equipment is secured and hackers wouldn't be able to have long-term access to it let alone it's source code.
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So, I was like trying to burn some porn on to a CD, but then my PC was like beep beep beep beep beep beep, and then it mailed all my pown to everyone on my email list without me knowing about it and it changed the settings for the CD-RW so it froze and I needed to go get another one. And it was a really good CD-RW too but I didn't have enough money left to get one that was as good.
...
...
...
...
... a bummer.
It was like...
239. Tell 'em Penn says hi. [4 points]
I see that they arn't too gone to have a bit o' fun with the list.
Andrew Morton then continued... 'One popular company to be affected by the bug was the OSDN. Their technology news site Slashdot.org updated their database server with the new 2.4.20 kernal.'
It was a disaster. 'The problem was with syncing during unmount. When the people at Slashdot upgraded, their databases became corrupted. Suddenly, duplicate stories began to appear!'
Added Andrew, 'Wow, duplicate stories. There's a shocker'
The full interview will be availible soon on The Onion
Well, at least they all went with smiles on their faces... *sniff*
At the end of the link....
...
Andrew Morton wrote:>
>
> The fix is to only apply the optimisation to inodes which are operating
> under data=ordered.
>
That "fix" didn't fix it. Sorry about that.
Please avoid ext3/data=journal until it is sorted out.
WELL. It seems that the Open Source people ARE on top of it, but please, don't turn a Linux bug into a way to bash Microsoft. A better comment would have been "Hm. Well, they did screw up but they are fixing it".
Klez and ILOVEYOU all have fixes. A lazy person who doesn't update and patch will have an unsecure system regardless of if it runs Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, or ANYTHING.
And no, people who run Linux ARN'T smarter and WON'T update more consistantly, they just prefer Linux. And yes, newbies are more likely to be running Windows, but they wouldn't update no matter what OS they are on. And while newbies are more likely to run Windows, Gurus are NOT more likely to run *nix. It's getting old. You like Linux? Great. I'm sure that although things could be better you are very happy with your OS. I run Windows. Great. Although things could be better, I'm very happy with mine.
*cough* well, MP3 and OGG are both lossy formats. But both, with different algorithums to determain what data to keep, and which to toss. SO, you have converted from one lossy format to another. Getting the worst of both worlds. A note to others: DO NOT convert from MP3 to OGG and wonder why it sounds like crap.
Really then. Freaky? I'm assuming you meen the MDI layout. One which I can't get enough of. But alas, that is an option you can turn off. In fact, you can even distribute your own EXE to your 'customers' with your own links, icons, title, settings, and more over at the Opera Composer. If you wanna check it out, log in with 'Someone@someone.com' password 'someone'. VERY nice that composer.
He %cough% STOLE this from the orig of the duped stories!
Dupe.
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Come ON. Well, I guess if the editors can do it... why not you...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=46328&cid=477
Funny Idea, though. Got you some Karma I see it did.
You kidding? When I go, I'd be happy to donate for free!
I mean, come on... everyone should have the opportunity to look as good as me.
Very true. I wanted to purchace a replacement capasitor many years ago.... the salesman had no idea what the difference between them all was. I pointed to the capasitance and he said Ooooohhhh! The numbers have to match!
My GOD!
RadioShack:
You've got questions
we can't answer (TM)
Hey, you laugh...but they arn't. They now know your average demographic, and pick a product to suit it. Well, that or you start seeing pictures of this on the side of the road...
And COME ON slashdot!
o mmandments
They TELL you the address to link to it with:
http://www.jestsandjokes.com/show.php3?name=dos.c
It's right there, at the bottem.
I dont know.
I'm still waiting for the version that doesn't let me browse slashdot at a threashold lower then 3.
So, they give us a disk with normal, unencripted audio and some audio locked down to only playing in their system. Hmmmm.... I don't know about you, but I'm sure there is gotta be a way to play the NORMAL, UNENCRIPTED audio over the PC. And once we have that, there is a way to rip it to ogg/wav/mp2/mp3/whatever. Sony, you are trying to lock out the computer savvy audience using methods developed to keep the 'average listner' from burning/ripping. Well, 'average listners' DON'T burn/rip. COMPUTER SAVVY listners burn/rip. And COMPUTER SAVVY people are not only going to not accept this, they are going to break it. And once that is broken, all it takes is one rip to open it up to EVERYONE for downloading.
(In short) Sorry. Nope.
And in that story, the WHOLE paper is gone? On the ad it's only half, and then in the interview it was three pages. Hmmmmmmm... Well, she WAS high on alergy meds at the time so who really knows? It was like beep beep beep beep beep beep and then some unknown amount was gone.
...
...
...
It was like...
a bummer.
It goes from point 'a' to point 'b'. If you don't live in point 'a' and want to go to point 'b' then it really doesn't have much purpose. When I say mass-transit, I mean the Metro bus system. It is able to serve more people more efficiantly. Work on that, and once it's stabalized go to the fancy monorails.
The monorail is the last thing Seattle should be worrying about. I live there and trust me, the highway system needs attention and FAST. Traffic is terible, and the Metro bus system got funding cut. Yes, I'm glad the monorail is going ahaid but due to the consept of a monorail only few people are going to be able to regularly use it. Work on our roads and mass transit first thank you very much.
Opera! It's got a wide array of privacy features. You can not only turn off cookies, images, GIF animation, and all that, but you can do it on the fly by pressing the F12 key. Also, you can choose not to send reffer information along to the site, if you don't want them to know where you came from. One more thing, you can choose to identify as Opera, MSIE, and from 3 different versions of Mozilla. And that's just in the 6.x version, the 7 beta is now availible for download from opera.com!
Incorrect.
Now I'm not the average slashbot who runs nothing but Linux from his home computer to his coffie machine, but what I got from the article is that Microsoft is sustaining a foot in the door of a market that doesn't want them. If they are loosing money making mice and keyboards, our economy is set up so they would have to inovate or go out of business. Microsoft is the exception to the rule. They can keep on producing their products even after the market has voted them as the weekest link. The fact that Microsoft is using sales of its other products to continue to produce infirior hardware is not fair to the consumers who have already choosen Logitech and Genius. Two companys who produce amazing hardware and make a profit at it. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure how long I'd last without MY Genius NetMouse Pro.
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Seems quite popular in this Ask Slashdot.
So is mine! And I don't like you implying that I get walked over! Well, that's only if it's OK with you, of corse...
The TiVo Community has lots of technical people all working on everything TiVo. It was fetured on Slashdot a little while ago on the story "Distributed TiVo Code Cracking".
no, no, no, no, no!
Open source is GREAT for some applications, and it's totaly inapropreate for others. Yes, lots of flaws would be fixed... but lots of other flaws would be discovered by the WRONG people and exploited. I remember a story on slashdot a while ago further back in the Mircosoft trial where someone high up on the MS chain said that releasing the source of Windows would provide to be a threat to national security because of all the security flaws. While I'm sure these voting systems have much fewer if any bugs releasing the source would allow groups of hackers to work from their homes studying the code and checking for insecuritys. While at the moment, voting equipment is secured and hackers wouldn't be able to have long-term access to it let alone it's source code.
Only if you stay on the line the whole time...
Can you hear me now...good! Can you hear me now...good! Can you hear me now...good! Can you hear me now...good! Can you hear me now...