That opening shot was pretty awesome, with the perspective pulling back through Earth's RF bubble until it reached the edge, and total silence... then they did the cliched "oh, it's all in the pupil of her eye" bit and ruined it. The movie went pretty quickly downhill after that. The people I was watching it with and I were calling out next lines and next scenes before they happened because it was all so predictable. I always thought the ending of the book was a bit weak, and the movie gutted the book and only put up the shell.
And they left out my favorite scene, where Arroway and the priest are in the museum, and she pulls the Focault pendulum up to her face, lets it go, and lets it swing back, trusting in physics to stop it before it hits her, then challenges him to do the same, trusting in his god to stop it. That would've been too controversial for mainstream America, I suppose...
I'm not sure when you added the reply counter to the list of postings in the user info, but I like it. Makes keeping an eye people's responses to my postings much easier.
I also like being able to set the number of comments it'll display on a page to something ludicrously high, too, so I don't have to laboriously page through comments one at a time as soon as the number of responses hits 100. Being able to just page past garbage posts without waiting for the page to reload is great.
I'm still not sure about the moderation... I'd be happier about it if the default setting was to display all postings. Also, I notice that on this page, there's at least one comment with a score of 6... is that a bug or a feature? And if it's possible to raise a score above 5, is it also possible to lower one below -1? Is that why I haven't seen any "First post!" idiots today, despite running with my threshold at -1? Or is someone just flat-out deleting those? Or have they just stopped posting (unlikely, methinks, but possible)? Wish I could set my threshold back down to -2000 to look, but it doesn't seem to want to let me go lower than -1 anymore...
Anyway, thanks for the cool features. Just wish I could figure out how to use them properly without cookies...
The last one was a bit tangled and wordy, but seemed to have a point that it was trying to get to. This one was equally tangled and wordy, but I'm not sure if it had a point, beyond, "Yeah, there's this Internet thing out there that people really get into."
Maybe that was the whole point. Maybe I just don't see why this is such a revelation. Maybe it's just because I've been living on the water my whole life, and can't understand the epiphany of someone who's seeing the digital ocean for the first time...
The problem is, there are too many radio stations that _aren't_ random. Most of the ones around here, if you listen to them all day, you'll hear the same dozen "new releases" two or three times, with a few other songs and commercials mixed in... and if you switch to a different station, *they're playing the same damn thing*! My MP3 collection is more random than that... I'm easily capable of going a whole day without repeating a song. Pop stations are the worst in this regard, but even the older stations get repetitititive pretty quickly.
I got to try out the Apache headgear at an air show some years back. Was very sweet... zero learning curve... wherever you look, the "pointer" goes. Do we get that neat Apache feature where whatever you click on gets... er... unrecoverably deleted, too?
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I don't know about menuconfig, but if you copy your old.config file into the new kernel directory, and do a "make oldconfig", it'll load most options out of the old.config. New options it'll stop and ask you about.
Y'know, I think it'd be incredibly funny if someone cracked their web server (again?) and replaced their httpd with a hacked version that translated "hack" to "crack" on the fly on all outgoing pages...
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s/38/37/; s/39/38/;
Otherwise, yeah... I've still got two boxen that run 1.2.13, because they don't have the resources to really cope with 2.0... they're both low-end 386es with 4M of RAM and hard drive sizes in the double digits.
You can do this with lpr, without the user ever even seeing the Unix box, much less doing anything with its command line. I've got a Linux box set up using Mars to allow Windows clients to print to a "Netware" queue on the Mars server exactly like they would to a local printer, then the Mars server forwards the jobs through lpr (mine are only going across the building, but once you hit the TCP/IP layer, there's no reason you can't go across the world just as easily) to another Linux server which is actually connected to the printer.
Result: Windows users with the ability to print to remote printers using only existing protocols and the standard "Print" option in their apps.
I set my threshold down to an arbitrarily large negative number when the big preferences thing was added the other day. I've been surprised at the amount of stuff that's been moderated down into the negatives... and by the fact that a lot of it seems to be stuff where the only fault seemed to be holding an unpopular opinion.
If I were Rob, I'd abolish the "log in or be an Anonymous Coward" bit... the number of Anonymous Cowards went up _drastically_ the day that went into effect. And I'd get rid of the moderation and install username-based filtering instead. It'd be much better to just be able to say, "I don't want to see anything from Meept," than to have to say, "I don't want to see anything by Meept, or anything else the moderators may have decided to knock down to -3 for whatever reason."
But it's not my site, so I'll just hang around with my threshold at -2000, and rely on my own judgement to skip over the stuff I don't feel like reading...
It can't happen. Simple as that. I'm not a big Red Hat fan... I've had enough trouble getting even simple things to compile cleanly on their distribution that I recommend against it whenever anyone's considering a new Linux installation. But there is no way they can become the next Microsoft. The GPL protects us from it. That's why it's there.
IBM's not even on their own side. They're so big that their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing, much less how to give it a.. er.. hand. If you need more proof of this than the contradictory statements coming out of their executives, I have one word for you:
I've got a Zenith 286-8 that doesn't have a motherboard, just a backplane. The normal motherboard stuff is on a pair of expansion cards... one with the 286, 287 (yup, got a math coprocessor... the thing'll eat a 486SX-25 for lunch doing CAD work), base 512k system RAM, and supporting circuitry. The other's got ttyS0 and lp0 and, I think, the stuff that's handled by the chipset on modern motherboards. It won't run without the second card, at any rate.
They aren't ISA cards, though... they're some funky non-standard Zenith local-bus format. The 8-bit tab is normal ISA, but the second, 16-bit tab is fully as wide as the first tab. The backplane's got four special slots on it that can take either these cards (I've got a couple of RAM cards that use the same format) or standard ISA.
I've never tried putting one in another machine, for the obvious reason that they just don't fit, but I did try booting it once with two CPU cards in it. No dice... the first POST light wouldn't even come on. I'd suspect that any similar attempt would run into trouble with the CPUs getting in fights over the bus and suchlike, unless the CPU cards were actually designed for SMP.
More on topic... I've got of those CPU cards here in my hand as I type (yes, typing one-handed)... the CPU has an AMD logo on it, and underneath that, "(c) INTEL", which I find tremendously interesting...
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Those things have 10BaseT ports on them, don't they? What do you need monitors/keyboards/mice for?
Hey, I just had a spiff idea... how about coating a case with that temperature-sensitive color-change stuff? I'd like having a machine that started out flat black, then shifted through blue to red in patterns as it warmed up...
Yeah, Katz really needs some constructive criticism. Unfortunately, I don't think he actually reads the comments people post to his articles. I'm not sure I really blame him... he catches enough mindless flaming that it makes looking for the occasional bit of constructive criticism like looking for a screw you've dropped into a pile carpet.
I sent him an email one time (because he claims to read and reply to all his email), explaining to him, as calmly and rationally as I could, why it was that so many Slashdot readers have such a big problem with him - not flaming him (or trying not to), just saying, "Look, this is what you're doing that they don't like, and here are the cultural reasons why..." The response I got back indicated that he a) didn't understand any of the points I brought up, and b) didn't think the personal opinion of one Slashdot reader was relevant (and I'd tried to avoid inserting my personal opinion if at all possible, limiting myself to broad coverage of what I've seen dozens or hundreds of people saying). I started writing a response to clarify the points he missed, came to the realization that I was simply restating my previous email because he'd blatently missed _all_ of my points, and gave it up as a bad job.
All of which is to say: I think we might as well throw Katz back... he isn't learning anything. On the contrary, that bit about the sexbots was the most ridiculous piece of tripe I've seen make it to Slashdot's front page. I wouldn't even know where to *begin* to constructively criticize _that_ rot.
All of those cases looked pretty darned beige to me. Some of them were beige with little colored bits on them, but hell, the IBM PC 300GL I've got sitting in front of me has little colored bits on it, too (blue, of course).
The real problem with modern cases isn't the color, anyway. You don't like the color? Paint it. The problem with modern cases is that they're too damn small. Give me one of those huge old AT boxes any day...
I don't know where you got the idea that we don't have IPv6... my kernel supports it. I'm getting ready to start using it, at least partially, on my LAN. I'm still going to have to have a gateway to v4 to talk to the outside world, but...
Of course, my machines support the.cin TLD, and all the TLDs AlterNIC provides, too...
Man... I better shut off this encoder, then. I wouldn't want all my music to be stored in a dead format... And what am I going to do with the CD-Rs I bought to burn them to?
Slashdot Mirror
That opening shot was pretty awesome, with the perspective pulling back through Earth's RF bubble until it reached the edge, and total silence... then they did the cliched "oh, it's all in the pupil of her eye" bit and ruined it. The movie went pretty quickly downhill after that. The people I was watching it with and I were calling out next lines and next scenes before they happened because it was all so predictable. I always thought the ending of the book was a bit weak, and the movie gutted the book and only put up the shell.
And they left out my favorite scene, where Arroway and the priest are in the museum, and she pulls the Focault pendulum up to her face, lets it go, and lets it swing back, trusting in physics to stop it before it hits her, then challenges him to do the same, trusting in his god to stop it. That would've been too controversial for mainstream America, I suppose...
> I just dont have enough palaces to put my stuff.
If you measure the amount of stuff you've got in palaces, I don't feel sorry for you at all... :)
I'm not sure when you added the reply counter to the list of postings in the user info, but I like it. Makes keeping an eye people's responses to my postings much easier.
I also like being able to set the number of comments it'll display on a page to something ludicrously high, too, so I don't have to laboriously page through comments one at a time as soon as the number of responses hits 100. Being able to just page past garbage posts without waiting for the page to reload is great.
I'm still not sure about the moderation... I'd be happier about it if the default setting was to display all postings. Also, I notice that on this page, there's at least one comment with a score of 6... is that a bug or a feature? And if it's possible to raise a score above 5, is it also possible to lower one below -1? Is that why I haven't seen any "First post!" idiots today, despite running with my threshold at -1? Or is someone just flat-out deleting those? Or have they just stopped posting (unlikely, methinks, but possible)? Wish I could set my threshold back down to -2000 to look, but it doesn't seem to want to let me go lower than -1 anymore...
Anyway, thanks for the cool features. Just wish I could figure out how to use them properly without cookies...
The last one was a bit tangled and wordy, but seemed to have a point that it was trying to get to. This one was equally tangled and wordy, but I'm not sure if it had a point, beyond, "Yeah, there's this Internet thing out there that people really get into."
Maybe that was the whole point. Maybe I just don't see why this is such a revelation. Maybe it's just because I've been living on the water my whole life, and can't understand the epiphany of someone who's seeing the digital ocean for the first time...
It's "Linux Is Not Unix... eXactly...".
One word: SlashNET.
The problem is, there are too many radio stations that _aren't_ random. Most of the ones around here, if you listen to them all day, you'll hear the same dozen "new releases" two or three times, with a few other songs and commercials mixed in... and if you switch to a different station, *they're playing the same damn thing*! My MP3 collection is more random than that... I'm easily capable of going a whole day without repeating a song. Pop stations are the worst in this regard, but even the older stations get repetitititive pretty quickly.
I got to try out the Apache headgear at an air show some years back. Was very sweet... zero learning curve... wherever you look, the "pointer" goes. Do we get that neat Apache feature where whatever you click on gets... er... unrecoverably deleted, too?
I don't know about menuconfig, but if you copy your old .config file into the new kernel directory, and do a "make oldconfig", it'll load most options out of the old .config. New options it'll stop and ask you about.
Y'know, I think it'd be incredibly funny if someone cracked their web server (again?) and replaced their httpd with a hacked version that translated "hack" to "crack" on the fly on all outgoing pages...
s/38/37/; s/39/38/;
Otherwise, yeah... I've still got two boxen that run 1.2.13, because they don't have the resources to really cope with 2.0... they're both low-end 386es with 4M of RAM and hard drive sizes in the double digits.
Old software never dies...
You can do this with lpr, without the user ever even seeing the Unix box, much less doing anything with its command line. I've got a Linux box set up using Mars to allow Windows clients to print to a "Netware" queue on the Mars server exactly like they would to a local printer, then the Mars server forwards the jobs through lpr (mine are only going across the building, but once you hit the TCP/IP layer, there's no reason you can't go across the world just as easily) to another Linux server which is actually connected to the printer.
Result: Windows users with the ability to print to remote printers using only existing protocols and the standard "Print" option in their apps.
I set my threshold down to an arbitrarily large negative number when the big preferences thing was added the other day. I've been surprised at the amount of stuff that's been moderated down into the negatives... and by the fact that a lot of it seems to be stuff where the only fault seemed to be holding an unpopular opinion.
If I were Rob, I'd abolish the "log in or be an Anonymous Coward" bit... the number of Anonymous Cowards went up _drastically_ the day that went into effect. And I'd get rid of the moderation and install username-based filtering instead. It'd be much better to just be able to say, "I don't want to see anything from Meept," than to have to say, "I don't want to see anything by Meept, or anything else the moderators may have decided to knock down to -3 for whatever reason."
But it's not my site, so I'll just hang around with my threshold at -2000, and rely on my own judgement to skip over the stuff I don't feel like reading...
It can't happen. Simple as that. I'm not a big Red Hat fan... I've had enough trouble getting even simple things to compile cleanly on their distribution that I recommend against it whenever anyone's considering a new Linux installation. But there is no way they can become the next Microsoft. The GPL protects us from it. That's why it's there.
IBM's not even on their own side. They're so big that their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing, much less how to give it a .. er.. hand. If you need more proof of this than the contradictory statements coming out of their executives, I have one word for you:
OS/2.
Enough said?
So, would it be possible to get different categories for console games and for games on real computers so we can do some filtering on them?
I've got a Zenith 286-8 that doesn't have a motherboard, just a backplane. The normal motherboard stuff is on a pair of expansion cards... one with the 286, 287 (yup, got a math coprocessor... the thing'll eat a 486SX-25 for lunch doing CAD work), base 512k system RAM, and supporting circuitry. The other's got ttyS0 and lp0 and, I think, the stuff that's handled by the chipset on modern motherboards. It won't run without the second card, at any rate.
They aren't ISA cards, though... they're some funky non-standard Zenith local-bus format. The 8-bit tab is normal ISA, but the second, 16-bit tab is fully as wide as the first tab. The backplane's got four special slots on it that can take either these cards (I've got a couple of RAM cards that use the same format) or standard ISA.
I've never tried putting one in another machine, for the obvious reason that they just don't fit, but I did try booting it once with two CPU cards in it. No dice... the first POST light wouldn't even come on. I'd suspect that any similar attempt would run into trouble with the CPUs getting in fights over the bus and suchlike, unless the CPU cards were actually designed for SMP.
More on topic... I've got of those CPU cards here in my hand as I type (yes, typing one-handed)... the CPU has an AMD logo on it, and underneath that, "(c) INTEL", which I find tremendously interesting...
Those things have 10BaseT ports on them, don't they? What do you need monitors/keyboards/mice for?
Hey, I just had a spiff idea... how about coating a case with that temperature-sensitive color-change stuff? I'd like having a machine that started out flat black, then shifted through blue to red in patterns as it warmed up...
Yeah, Katz really needs some constructive criticism. Unfortunately, I don't think he actually reads the comments people post to his articles. I'm not sure I really blame him... he catches enough mindless flaming that it makes looking for the occasional bit of constructive criticism like looking for a screw you've dropped into a pile carpet.
I sent him an email one time (because he claims to read and reply to all his email), explaining to him, as calmly and rationally as I could, why it was that so many Slashdot readers have such a big problem with him - not flaming him (or trying not to), just saying, "Look, this is what you're doing that they don't like, and here are the cultural reasons why..." The response I got back indicated that he a) didn't understand any of the points I brought up, and b) didn't think the personal opinion of one Slashdot reader was relevant (and I'd tried to avoid inserting my personal opinion if at all possible, limiting myself to broad coverage of what I've seen dozens or hundreds of people saying). I started writing a response to clarify the points he missed, came to the realization that I was simply restating my previous email because he'd blatently missed _all_ of my points, and gave it up as a bad job.
All of which is to say: I think we might as well throw Katz back... he isn't learning anything. On the contrary, that bit about the sexbots was the most ridiculous piece of tripe I've seen make it to Slashdot's front page. I wouldn't even know where to *begin* to constructively criticize _that_ rot.
All of those cases looked pretty darned beige to me. Some of them were beige with little colored bits on them, but hell, the IBM PC 300GL I've got sitting in front of me has little colored bits on it, too (blue, of course).
The real problem with modern cases isn't the color, anyway. You don't like the color? Paint it. The problem with modern cases is that they're too damn small. Give me one of those huge old AT boxes any day...
Well, I got dizzy trying to follow a couple of those metaphors, but he had a point and he made it. Katz, there might be a lesson here for you.
I don't know where you got the idea that we don't have IPv6... my kernel supports it. I'm getting ready to start using it, at least partially, on my LAN. I'm still going to have to have a gateway to v4 to talk to the outside world, but...
.cin TLD, and all the TLDs AlterNIC provides, too...
Of course, my machines support the
Rob could create a new protocol specifically for slashdot and call it "slashdotcolon". Then it'd be "slashdotcoloncolonslashslashslashdotdotdot".
/.::///...? Looks like some kinda weird regexp...
Man... I better shut off this encoder, then. I wouldn't want all my music to be stored in a dead format... And what am I going to do with the CD-Rs I bought to burn them to?