Well most anyone's that used Mandrake Linux and third-party packages will have heard of Texstar sometime during their package-seeking.
I've been running Mandrake on my server for around three years now, and I've never heard of him.
Mind you, I don't have any cause to use any packages that don't come with the distro, so perhaps that's why? Or perhaps it's because -- even when I have sought out packages in the past (for RedHat), as a non-coder I don't recall ever paying any attention to the author/packager's name.
But hey, if you say the guy's a star, I'm happy to take your word for it.
Incidentally, wtf is this business about having to wait twenty seconds after hitting reply before you can post? That's another contributor to information overload. This post would have been just five words long, but now I've had to increase it to 52 to get past the barrier.
I expect that's why he wrote 'word count and worthless detail'. Because word count is quantatitive, but worthless detail is qualitative, and the evaluation of how information is best presented would surely combine both aspects?
I could do with less soundbites and more indepth info
And yet you chose to make your argument in a three line post? I wonder why?
... typically reductionist. The man is a Philistine.
At least his argument isn't full of logical holes, ad hominems and doesn't rely on selective use of the data to try and make his case.
Back in the Day, when I was awakening in pools of someone else's vomit curbside in front of CBGB's to the encore strains of "Pscho Killer.... Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa... Better run run run run Run Away!"
For me it was Erics in Liverpool, watching them play support for the Ramones. Aside from that it's the same story...
Funny thing is, I kinda remember how, back in the early '90s, marketing campaigns similarly co-copted Andy Warhol imagery to "artistically connect with" a previous generation who now found themselves in Brooks Brothers suits. I thought that was bogus then, but I think using Byrne is clever. Thanks, Slashdot, for pointing out how I've become what I once loathed.
I do empathize, but if you've ever run across people that you knew from those days who are now in their late forties and haven't changed at all, I suspect you'd view your situation somewhat differently.
All of which brings the lyrics to a Byrne song crashing home to me
What, you think Mitnick actually *wrote* his first book himself?
Perhaps he did, but given how modern publishing works, I'd be very surprised if that were true. These works are most likely ghostwritten attempts to cash in on his outlaw celebrity status (as told to A. Hack) and the follow-up is another attempt to capitalize on the Mitnick brand(tm) and its status in the burgeoning script kiddie market.
You don't really think an editor commissioned this book because its likely to be a valuable contribution to culture, do you?
Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than 8710 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine."
Dear pedantic Slashbots: If cable theft is stealing, why is MP3 downloading "infringement?"
Because cable provision is a service. Most theft acts generally cover the unlawful acquisition of goods or services.
Using a fake id to download porn that you haven't paid for from someone's website then, would count as theft. Giving other people copies of the porn that you download would be infringement. Recieving copies of that porn may or may not be infringement, depending on where you live.
Why? Because that's what the law is. If you don't like it, lobby for changes in the law.
yes poor darl.. and i think its odd wether i get flamed or not but, why would the opensource community do this everyone by now realizes that doing this would achieve nothing
What makes you think this is the open source community that's responsible? Do you really think that the same people who devote a large proportion of their life to writing code that others can benefit from will be the same people who engage in such puerile, childish antics? I very much doubt it somehow.
The people who did this are almost certainly going to be the same sort of people who mount similar attacks on microsoft.com, etc. ie, script kiddies.
They may very well run linux, but that would only make them the beneficiaries of the open source community, not members of that commmunity.
im sorry but no one in the community would try to look cool
<Darl McBride> I'll tell you what the Demon is hiding -- our intellectual property, fer cryin' out loud.
Boies? I hope you're getting all this. The damned open source, heathen, communist hippies are deliberately flaunting their ability to conceal the code they've ripped off in an image of some goddamned devil. If that isn't proof enough of a conspiracy to rip us off, I don't know what is! </Darl McBride>
A comment takes a few seconds to rattle off. An entire flash animation, both its creation and its distribution actually takes some work.
Are we talking about the same animation here? That single video loop with an unaccompanied vocal must have took the author about as long as it took me to post the link. It certainly took a damn sight less time than it took to stick a webcam into the guts one of one.
Now own up. You're all a bunch of Billy Big-Mouth Bass owners, aren't you?
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And where are you that you think you have more freedom of speech than the US?
How about *any* country that has allowed the late, great Bill Hicks to appear on network TV?
Well most anyone's that used Mandrake Linux and third-party packages will have heard of Texstar sometime during their package-seeking.
I've been running Mandrake on my server for around three years now, and I've never heard of him.
Mind you, I don't have any cause to use any packages that don't come with the distro, so perhaps that's why? Or perhaps it's because -- even when I have sought out packages in the past (for RedHat), as a non-coder I don't recall ever paying any attention to the author/packager's name.
But hey, if you say the guy's a star, I'm happy to take your word for it.
Or use the preview button...
Incidentally, wtf is this business about having to wait twenty seconds after hitting reply before you can post? That's another contributor to information overload. This post would have been just five words long, but now I've had to increase it to 52 to get past the barrier.
'word count' is quantitive, not qualitative
... typically reductionist. The man is a Philistine.
I expect that's why he wrote 'word count and worthless detail'. Because word count is quantatitive, but worthless detail is qualitative, and the evaluation of how information is best presented would surely combine both aspects?
I could do with less soundbites and more indepth info
And yet you chose to make your argument in a three line post? I wonder why?
At least his argument isn't full of logical holes, ad hominems and doesn't rely on selective use of the data to try and make his case.
That's *my* idea of a philistine...
Back in the Day, when I was awakening in pools of someone else's vomit curbside in front of CBGB's to the encore strains of "Pscho Killer.... Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa... Better run run run run Run Away!"
For me it was Erics in Liverpool, watching them play support for the Ramones. Aside from that it's the same story...
Funny thing is, I kinda remember how, back in the early '90s, marketing campaigns similarly co-copted Andy Warhol imagery to "artistically connect with" a previous generation who now found themselves in Brooks Brothers suits. I thought that was bogus then, but I think using Byrne is clever. Thanks, Slashdot, for pointing out how I've become what I once loathed.
I do empathize, but if you've ever run across people that you knew from those days who are now in their late forties and haven't changed at all, I suspect you'd view your situation somewhat differently.
All of which brings the lyrics to a Byrne song crashing home to me
Same as it ever was...
Hopefully, by seeing if he can replicate the intrusion himself...
What, you think Mitnick actually *wrote* his first book himself?
Perhaps he did, but given how modern publishing works, I'd be very surprised if that were true. These works are most likely ghostwritten attempts to cash in on his outlaw celebrity status (as told to A. Hack) and the follow-up is another attempt to capitalize on the Mitnick brand(tm) and its status in the burgeoning script kiddie market.
You don't really think an editor commissioned this book because its likely to be a valuable contribution to culture, do you?
From http://www.debian.org: What was it you were you saying again?
What I like is that he's running 55 different operating systems, and *none* of them are SCO.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than it is for a spammer to enter the kingdom of heaven."
Mathew 19:24
Living large and having fun in New York City.
Pssh. When the women in NYC show you their tits for a string of plastic beads, you might have him beat. Till then though, he's got *you* trumped.
what else can I ask her?
Oh, I dunno. How about 'What would Jesus do?'
i am voting for GWB in 04 just to spite liberal pigs just like you...
Heh. Sure. Because if it wasn't for liberal pigs like him, you'd otherwise have voted for a Democrat?
Was that in order to give the Kurds one more slap in the face after their doing the US another good turn then?
Dear pedantic Slashbots: If cable theft is stealing, why is MP3 downloading "infringement?"
Because cable provision is a service. Most theft acts generally cover the unlawful acquisition of goods or services.
Using a fake id to download porn that you haven't paid for from someone's website then, would count as theft. Giving other people copies of the porn that you download would be infringement. Recieving copies of that porn may or may not be infringement, depending on where you live.
Why? Because that's what the law is. If you don't like it, lobby for changes in the law.
yes poor darl.. and i think its odd wether i get flamed or not but, why would the opensource community do this everyone by now realizes that doing this would achieve nothing
;-)
What makes you think this is the open source community that's responsible? Do you really think that the same people who devote a large proportion of their life to writing code that others can benefit from will be the same people who engage in such puerile, childish antics? I very much doubt it somehow.
The people who did this are almost certainly going to be the same sort of people who mount similar attacks on microsoft.com, etc. ie, script kiddies.
They may very well run linux, but that would only make them the beneficiaries of the open source community, not members of that commmunity.
im sorry but no one in the community would try to look cool
Oops. OK, so we agree. Rant over.
You are obviously not a lawyer.
He didn't say he was. He said that he worked at a law firm.
Judging by the content of his post though, he's got to be either the firm's janitor or the errand boy.
What exactly makes a light meter worth so much?
Why do some computers cost $500, while others cost $50,000?
It's the same thing. Accuracy, build quality, engineering, etc.
However, there's no point in spending $50,000 if all you want is to surf the web, and the same principle applies to light meters.
What kind of batteries does your separate meter use, that weigh less than that?
Dunno about his, but my old Weston Euromaster doesn't use batteries at all.
if you don't buy a Vietnam-era Nikon F, you might as well be wearing panties.
Psh... SLR's are for sluggards.
What you *really* want is a nice Leica M3.
Unfortunately, it won't cost you no $200, so I'd go with the Nikon F or F1 as well.
This is Slashdot, remember...
Home to a million Microsoft astroturfers and trolls, all desperate for their daily fix of Linux news...
<Darl McBride>
I'll tell you what the Demon is hiding -- our intellectual property, fer cryin' out loud.
Boies? I hope you're getting all this. The damned open source, heathen, communist hippies are deliberately flaunting their ability to conceal the code they've ripped off in an image of some goddamned devil. If that isn't proof enough of a conspiracy to rip us off, I don't know what is!
</Darl McBride>
thats like four words fuckass
Heh. Not only can you not count, you can't punctuate and have no idea about the rules of grammar either.
I'd shut up now, if I were you.
A comment takes a few seconds to rattle off. An entire flash animation, both its creation and its distribution actually takes some work.
Are we talking about the same animation here? That single video loop with an unaccompanied vocal must have took the author about as long as it took me to post the link. It certainly took a damn sight less time than it took to stick a webcam into the guts one of one.
Now own up. You're all a bunch of Billy Big-Mouth Bass owners, aren't you?
So true. In fact, this says it all, really.
Warning: the above link is not suitable for work, religious parents or the easily offended.