There should be more publicity about the guy(s) who would send mail-bombs (ala Kazcinsky) to the spammers. I hear that someone else is going to the folks who advertise via spammers and physically threatening/assaulting them.
I actually submitted several stories about KPIG and CARP but they all got rejected. It's good to hear that they're back on the net.
KPIG is awesome, they've got a great selection of diverse music, they were the first station to simulcast on the net, and they do it all on linux based machines.
Seriously, how many other stations will play Hank Williams Sr. and the Rolling Stones in the same set?
Calling MS the Pinto of the 21st century is grossly unfair to Pintos. First, Pintos are a lot better than their reputation. The original 1600 pushrod motor is the same solid reliable block used in Cortinas (and most other English Fords) as well as having been raced for years in Formula Ford. The bottom end of that motor is used in Lotuses, as well as the Cosworth race engines (Formula Atlantic).
The 2 liter overhead cam motor in the Pinto is surprisingly good. When I raced a friends Capri with that motor, he said that he usually shifts between 7,000 and 8,000 RPM because it doesn't make any more power beyond that, but the motor will spin over 9,000 RPM without problems.
I've also seen Pintos win the SCCA racing class Improved Touring B, against cars like BMW 2002s.
I actually wrote something up that was recently posted online at the linux journal site:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4715
Since I wrote it over a year ago, some of the links are a bit out of date, but the general principles are still good.
Hickman's page seems to have been slashdotted, I found his old page at:
http://people.ce.mediaone.net/bert-hickman/frames/ shrinker.html
also:
http://users.better.org/roverstreet/projects/Pulse/pulse.htm
It's riders like you that make life tough for the rest of us riders. Obnoxious bike riders that piss off motorists by ignoring red lights etc. make the cagers a lot less sympathetic to all of the other riders out there. They never notice the folks on bikes that wait at red lights, just the scofflaws like yourself.
Out here in the Bay Area we have a bunch of Critical Massholes that think that they can get people to like bicyclists better by screwing up commute traffic once a month.
First I found the comment: "Pushing the Internet beyond it's humble website beginnings".
Then when I tried to comment to them on it, their page broke and said that some.jsp file wasn't there.
Come on, how much credibility do you expect me to give to someone that doesn't even know that the Internet was around for twenty years before the WWW? On top of that, they seem to be make web design tools and their own web site is broken.
I'm familiar with OS basics, and have even written a couple of executives for embedded systems. Right now I'm in the middle of my first project actually working on the Linux kernel.
I tried reading through the source code, there are a lot of things that while obvious once you know what they are, aren't documented in an obvious place in the source code. The kernel does need better documentation. I would love to have time to go through and add manpage style headers to at least the important functions. Headers that detail the gozintas and gozoutas, as well as what the function basically does.
In the meantime I've used several books to help figure out what was going on. Each one has various strengths and weaknesses. This one is good for the functions that are actually documented in this book. The separated code and comments make it a nuisance to flip back and forth, but it does make the code more readable. It also makes the footnoting a little more versatile. Unfortunately for me, some of the areas that I needed the most help on were new to 2.2 and this book documents the 2.0 kernel.
Rubini's book on Linux Device Drivers is excellent. It is a "must have".
Coriolis also publishes the Linux Programming White Papers which collects several Open Source documents in one handy deadtree collection. Being a big fan of documentation that I can leaf through, I've found it quite usefull.
The Linux Kernel Book by Card, Dumas, and Mevel has good documentation on all of the various structs in the Kernel. It is also a decent high level overview.
I did not get the Wrox book on Beginnin Linux programming, so I can't accurately comment on it's usefullness.
While I am one of the three programmers in Santa Cruz county that has never worked at SCO, I have had many friends (and housemates) over the years who have worked there. The culture and focus at SCO has changed a lot over the years.
The last time that I interviewed there, the focus had changed dramatically from a cutting edge OS company (Xenix: unix on a 286) to an enterprise support oriented organization that seemed to focus most of their energy on making sure that other people's software ran on their platform. At the time (five years ago) it seemed like the obvious path would be to sell the same services for Linux, where SCO would not have to maintain the whole OS, and could concentrate on "bulletproofing" Linux instead.
Can we look forward to a SCO distribution of Linux, where a premium is charged for premium support and an assurance of interoperability with "SCO OK" applications?
As someone that would love to work on Linux without having to commute "over the hill", are there any plans to replace the corporate hot tub?
It would have been great fun turning in kids who annoyed me. Since I was one of the outcasts who got together to have huge waterfights and play glorified capture the flag, I'm sure I would have been turned in. Heck, we spent time at school discussing military tactics. Of course I would have turned around and sued Pinkerton for damages to my reputation, self esteem and all of that stuff. I probably could have bought a car and gone to an ivy league school with the settlement.
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How many times are mass murderers described as "just like everyone else". I guess that's a good profile of a psycho, just lock up everyone who is "just like everyone else", or is "pretty quiet".
Many years ago, before most people even heard of the web, Jon Luini and company started the Internet Underground Music Archives. A place where "alternative" and unsigned bands could distribute their music, bypassing the record companies. It was, unfortunately, yet another victim of politics and being just slightly ahead of its time.
For years I've been saying that if Icon based languages worked, we'd all be writing in Chinese. Why is it supposadly easier to use an interface based on arcane pictures than words? I'd like to point out that you can still have a "point and drool" interface where you point at buttons with words on them. How am I supposed to know that circle squiggle red splotch means undo and circle squiggle green splotch means redo? It is my contention that good Interface design has little to do with text versus graphics. I've seen both good and bad text and graphical based UIs. It seems to me that the one area that graphical UIs have an advantage is with the illiterate user. Another rant that I frequently have about GUIs is their lack of flexibility. They are supposed to be easy to learn. English would be easy to learn if there were only 12 words and you weren't allowed to make sentances. It's one thing when a UI holds your hand, it's another when it refuses to let go.
Many years ago, when I was working on the first revision of my book, I kept my computer dual boot so that I could run Word Perfect and Corel Draw. I no longer have any computers that run Windows, but it would be handy to be able to reuse my old illustrations in Corel Draw in the next revision.
How soon, if ever, will Corel Draw be released under Linux? Will the price remain in the several hundred dollar realm? Or will the price be lowered to a more reasonable level (as has Word Perfect)?
I have found that my threshold of pain for a software package at home to be $50-100 depending upon how much I feel I need the program. Have you done any research on the spending habits of Linux vs. Windows home users? Are many people, like me, more willing to buy 3 smaller $60 packages than one big $150 package?
Do you see the software market recongizing that most home copies of software are not purchased, and dramatically reducing the cost of the software and aiming for the support and convenience products: books, tech support packages, update subscriptions etc. as primary profit centers?
If you job requires you to telecommute, then they should be responsible for making sure that you have good equipment. On the other hand, if they are letting you telecommute, then requiring them to spend more money on telecommuters will only discourage them from letting people telecommute. I'm very upset because when I got my current job (over an hour drive from my house) they said that I could telecommute, they later changed their minds. With rules like this, I'd never be able to get them to relent and let me telecommute.
I've been having fun teasing the tards with this one:
In order to prevent problems with the Y2K bug, the Internet will be turned off from 11:55 AM 31 Dec GMT, which is just before Midnight at the International dateline, until 11:05 AM 1 Jan GMT, when the last time zone changes date. The Internet Engineering Task Force considered just turning off the net for 10 minute intervals each hour, but decided that bringing the net up and down 23 times would cause more problems. The day of downtime will have the added benefit of allowing major Internet Providers to upgrade equipment and software with a minimum disruption of Service.
From an oft ignored document detailing the duties of Congress: 15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions:
What part of "repel invasions" don't you understand?
Slashdot Mirror
When I was at Recourse (which got borged by Symantec) we had a virtual honeypot called Mantrap. It was on the market when I started there in 2001.
Lin-D'Oh!s
There should be more publicity about the guy(s) who would send mail-bombs (ala Kazcinsky) to the spammers. I hear that someone else is going to the folks who advertise via spammers and physically threatening/assaulting them.
You aren't the only KPIG fan in /. land.
I actually submitted several stories about KPIG and CARP but they all got rejected. It's good to hear that they're back on the net.
KPIG is awesome, they've got a great selection of diverse music, they were the first station to simulcast on the net, and they do it all on linux based machines.
Seriously, how many other stations will play Hank Williams Sr. and the Rolling Stones in the same set?
Talk about your blue screen of death.
Calling MS the Pinto of the 21st century is grossly unfair to Pintos. First, Pintos are a lot better than their reputation. The original 1600 pushrod motor is the same solid reliable block used in Cortinas (and most other English Fords) as well as having been raced for years in Formula Ford. The bottom end of that motor is used in Lotuses, as well as the Cosworth race engines (Formula Atlantic).
The 2 liter overhead cam motor in the Pinto is surprisingly good. When I raced a friends Capri with that motor, he said that he usually shifts between 7,000 and 8,000 RPM because it doesn't make any more power beyond that, but the motor will spin over 9,000 RPM without problems.
I've also seen Pintos win the SCCA racing class Improved Touring B, against cars like BMW 2002s.
I actually wrote something up that was recently posted online at the linux journal site: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4715 Since I wrote it over a year ago, some of the links are a bit out of date, but the general principles are still good.
I've been wondering just how susceptible Mae West and it's ilk are to terrorist attacks.
It seems to me that it wouldn't take a whole lot of bang to bring the internet to it's knees.
Funny how it was originally designed to be immune to this sort of stuff.
I don't remember the conclusion, but there was an article in the Amateur scientist about this.
Hickman's page seems to have been slashdotted, I found his old page at: http://people.ce.mediaone.net/bert-hickman/frames/ shrinker.html
also:
http://users.better.org/roverstreet/projects/Pulse /pulse.htm
Port Linux to a door? Is that how Sirius Cybernetics did it?
Share and Enjoy.
I can't read it at all.
Red on black, how freaking stylish. How freaking impossible to read. If you want people to read your thoughts, don't make them impossible to see.
It's riders like you that make life tough for the
rest of us riders. Obnoxious bike riders that piss off motorists by ignoring red lights etc. make the cagers a lot less sympathetic to all of the other riders out there. They never notice the folks on bikes that wait at red lights, just the scofflaws like yourself.
Out here in the Bay Area we have a bunch of Critical Massholes that think that they can get people to like bicyclists better by screwing up commute traffic once a month.
I wanted to write a filk:
"Listen to the rhythm of the line printers".
But I'm not that clever.
I took a quick look at their site.
.jsp file wasn't there.
First I found the comment:
"Pushing the Internet beyond it's humble website beginnings".
Then when I tried to comment to them on it, their page broke and said that some
Come on, how much credibility do you expect me to
give to someone that doesn't even know that the Internet was around for twenty years before the WWW? On top of that, they seem to be make web design tools and their own web site is broken.
They seem like a bunch of lusers to me.
I'm familiar with OS basics, and have even written a couple of executives for embedded systems. Right now I'm in the middle of my first project actually working on the Linux kernel.
I tried reading through the source code, there are a lot of things that while obvious once you know what they are, aren't documented in an obvious place in the source code. The kernel does need better documentation. I would love to have time to go through and add manpage style headers to at least the important functions. Headers that detail the gozintas and gozoutas, as well as what the function basically does.
In the meantime I've used several books to help figure out what was going on. Each one has various strengths and weaknesses. This one is good for the functions that are actually documented in this book. The separated code and comments make it a nuisance to flip back and forth, but it does make the code more readable. It also makes the footnoting a little more versatile. Unfortunately for me, some of the areas that I needed the most help on were new to 2.2 and this book documents the 2.0 kernel.
Rubini's book on Linux Device Drivers is excellent. It is a "must have".
Coriolis also publishes the Linux Programming White Papers which collects several Open Source documents in one handy deadtree collection. Being a big fan of documentation that I can leaf through, I've found it quite usefull.
The Linux Kernel Book by Card, Dumas, and Mevel has good documentation on all of the various structs in the Kernel. It is also a decent high level overview.
I did not get the Wrox book on Beginnin Linux programming, so I can't accurately comment on it's usefullness.
While I am one of the three programmers in Santa Cruz county that has never worked at SCO, I have had many friends (and housemates) over the years
who have worked there. The culture and focus at
SCO has changed a lot over the years.
The last time that I interviewed there, the focus had changed dramatically from a cutting edge OS company (Xenix: unix on a 286) to an enterprise support oriented organization that seemed to focus most of their energy on making sure that other people's software ran on their platform. At the time (five years ago) it seemed like the obvious
path would be to sell the same services for Linux,
where SCO would not have to maintain the whole OS,
and could concentrate on "bulletproofing" Linux
instead.
Can we look forward to a SCO distribution of
Linux, where a premium is charged for premium support and an assurance of interoperability with
"SCO OK" applications?
As someone that would love to work on Linux without having to commute "over the hill",
are there any plans to replace the corporate hot tub?
It would have been great fun turning in kids who annoyed me. Since I was one of the outcasts who
got together to have huge waterfights and play glorified capture the flag, I'm sure I would have
been turned in. Heck, we spent time at school discussing military tactics. Of course I would have turned around and sued Pinkerton for damages to my reputation, self esteem and all of that stuff. I probably could have bought a car and gone to an ivy league school with the settlement.
=====
How many times are mass murderers described as "just like everyone else". I guess that's a good
profile of a psycho, just lock up everyone who is
"just like everyone else", or is "pretty quiet".
Many years ago, before most people even heard of
the web, Jon Luini and company started the
Internet Underground Music Archives. A place where
"alternative" and unsigned bands could distribute
their music, bypassing the record companies.
It was, unfortunately, yet another victim of
politics and being just slightly ahead of its time.
Speaking of Upside, Linus and David Ditzel are
on the cover of the April 2000 issue.
For years I've been saying that if Icon based languages worked, we'd all be writing in Chinese. Why is it supposadly easier to use an interface based on arcane pictures than words? I'd like to point out that you can still have a "point and drool" interface where you point at buttons with words on them. How am I supposed to know that circle squiggle red splotch means undo and circle squiggle green splotch means redo? It is my contention that good Interface design has little to do with text versus graphics. I've seen both good and bad text and graphical based UIs. It seems to me that the one area that graphical UIs have an advantage is with the illiterate user. Another rant that I frequently have about GUIs is their lack of flexibility. They are supposed to be easy to learn. English would be easy to learn if there were only 12 words and you weren't allowed to make sentances. It's one thing when a UI holds your hand, it's another when it refuses to let go.
Many years ago, when I was working on the first revision of my book, I kept my computer dual boot so that I could run Word Perfect and Corel Draw.
I no longer have any computers that run Windows, but it would be handy to be able to reuse my old
illustrations in Corel Draw in the next revision.
How soon, if ever, will Corel Draw be released under Linux? Will the price remain in the several hundred dollar realm? Or will the price be lowered
to a more reasonable level (as has Word Perfect)?
I have found that my threshold of pain for a software package at home to be $50-100 depending
upon how much I feel I need the program. Have you
done any research on the spending habits of
Linux vs. Windows home users? Are many people, like me, more willing to buy 3 smaller $60 packages than one big $150 package?
Do you see the software market recongizing that
most home copies of software are not purchased,
and dramatically reducing the cost of the software and aiming for the support and convenience products: books, tech support packages, update subscriptions etc. as primary profit centers?
If you job requires you to telecommute, then they should be responsible for making sure that you have good equipment. On the other hand, if they are letting you telecommute, then requiring them to spend more money on telecommuters will only discourage them from letting people telecommute.
I'm very upset because when I got my current job (over an hour drive from my house) they said that I could telecommute, they later changed their minds. With rules like this, I'd never be able to get them to relent and let me telecommute.
I've been having fun teasing the tards with this one:
In order to prevent problems with the Y2K bug, the Internet will
be turned off from 11:55 AM 31 Dec GMT, which is just before Midnight
at the International dateline, until 11:05 AM 1 Jan GMT, when the last
time zone changes date. The Internet Engineering Task Force considered
just turning off the net for 10 minute intervals each hour, but decided
that bringing the net up and down 23 times would cause more problems.
The day of downtime will have the added benefit of allowing major
Internet Providers to upgrade equipment and software with a minimum
disruption of Service.
From an oft ignored document detailing the duties of Congress:
15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions:
What part of "repel invasions" don't you understand?