From the article "Linux server sales continued to show the strongest growth at 35.2 per cent and accounted for $1.2bn in sales. Linux servers made up 10 per cent of total sales in the quarter."
While it's important to respect your children's privacy,
understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to
decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience.
While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred
to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular
form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user
replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words
phonetically--creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist
of hieroglyphics.
Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways
using different substitutions and combinations, but once one
understands that nearly all characters are formed as phonemes and
symbols, leetspeek isn't difficult to translate.
Key points for learning leetspeek
Numbers are often used as letters.
The term "leet" could be written as "1337," with "1" replacing the
letter L, "3" posing as a backwards letter E, and "7" resembling the
letter T. Others include "8" replacing the letter B, "9" used as a G,
"0" (zero) in lieu of O, and so on.
Non-alphabet characters can be used to replace the letters
they resemble.
For example, "5" or even "$" can replace the letter S. Applying this
style, the word "leetspeek" can be written as "133t5p33k" or even
"!337$p34k," with "4" replacing the letter A.
Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound
alike.
Using "Z" for a final letter S, and "X" for words ending in the letters
C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their
computer "5x1llz" (skills).
Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed.
Some leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe
THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar, or
drop vowels from words (such as converting very to "vry").
Mistakes are often left uncorrected. Common typing
misspellings (typos) such as "teh" instead of the are left
uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling
altogether.
Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters.
For example, using slashes to create "/\/\" can substitute for the
letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form "|-|" is often
used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word ham could be
written as "|-|4/\/\."
The suffix "0rz" is often appended to words for emphasis or
to make them plural. For example, "h4xx0rz," "sk1llz0rz," and
"pwnz0rz," are plural or emphasized versions (or both) of hacks,
skills, and owns.
It's
important to remember that the leetspeek community encourages new forms
and awards individual creativity, resulting in a dynamic written
language that eludes conformity or consistency. However, there are a
few standard terms. The following is a sample of key words that haven't
changed fundamentally (although variations occur) since the invention
of leetspeek. The first series is of particular concern, as their use
could be an indicator that your teenager is involved in the theft of
intellectual property, particularly licensed software.
Leet words of concern or indicating possible illegal activity:
"warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software
available for download.
"h4x": Read as "hacks," or what a computer hacker does.
"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the
use of pornography.
"sploitz" (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in
computer software used by hackers.
"pwn": A typo-deliberate version of own,
a slang term used to express superiority over others that can be used
maliciously, depending on the situation. This could also be spelled "0\/\/n3d"
or "pwn3d," among other variations. Online
video game bullies or "griefers" often use this term.
You see, MS had a habit of hiring corporate spies to sit in the parking lot with binoculars and write down code snippets they saw on white-boards in the developers offices
This has got to be the biggest BS I have seen on slashdot
I had never compiled and installed KDE from the source, it just felt too huge and complicated. But I gave it a shot this week and it turned to be a brainless exercise with konstruct. You just run this script and it automagically downloads, de-compresses, compiles and installs everything!!
Slashdot Mirror
In your experience how stable is SCons? Their website gave me the impression that it is a beta software.
Both Mandrake and Lindows were forced to changed their names. They didnt do it for fun
firefuck
The last linux version was 5.05 http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/
From the report IBM, Intel and Apple declined to comment for this story. How the hell does that make official?
Are you trolling or just trying to be funny?
You honestly believe that GUI is a better way to admin a server?
Linux is the fastest growing...
From the article "Linux server sales continued to show the strongest growth at 35.2 per cent and accounted for $1.2bn in sales. Linux servers made up 10 per cent of total sales in the quarter."
Willy ... That looks like a enormous
....
Dick!! is that a huge
While it's important to respect your children's privacy, understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically--creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist of hieroglyphics.
Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways using different substitutions and combinations, but once one understands that nearly all characters are formed as phonemes and symbols, leetspeek isn't difficult to translate.
Key points for learning leetspeek
Numbers are often used as letters. The term "leet" could be written as "1337," with "1" replacing the letter L, "3" posing as a backwards letter E, and "7" resembling the letter T. Others include "8" replacing the letter B, "9" used as a G, "0" (zero) in lieu of O, and so on.
Non-alphabet characters can be used to replace the letters they resemble. For example, "5" or even "$" can replace the letter S. Applying this style, the word "leetspeek" can be written as "133t5p33k" or even "!337$p34k," with "4" replacing the letter A.
Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using "Z" for a final letter S, and "X" for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer "5x1llz" (skills).
Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Some leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar, or drop vowels from words (such as converting very to "vry").
Mistakes are often left uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (typos) such as "teh" instead of the are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling altogether.
Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For example, using slashes to create "/\/\" can substitute for the letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form "|-|" is often used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word ham could be written as "|-|4/\/\."
The suffix "0rz" is often appended to words for emphasis or to make them plural. For example, "h4xx0rz," "sk1llz0rz," and "pwnz0rz," are plural or emphasized versions (or both) of hacks, skills, and owns.
It's important to remember that the leetspeek community encourages new forms and awards individual creativity, resulting in a dynamic written language that eludes conformity or consistency. However, there are a few standard terms. The following is a sample of key words that haven't changed fundamentally (although variations occur) since the invention of leetspeek. The first series is of particular concern, as their use could be an indicator that your teenager is involved in the theft of intellectual property, particularly licensed software.
Leet words of concern or indicating possible illegal activity:
"warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software available for download.
"h4x": Read as "hacks," or what a computer hacker does.
"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the use of pornography.
"sploitz" (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by hackers.
"pwn": A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term used to express superiority over others that can be used maliciously, depending on the situation. This could also be spelled "0\/\/n3d" or "pwn3d," among other variations. Online video game bullies or "griefers" often use this term.
SCO Stock is sitting at $4.30 at opening today. It'll be interesing to see where it goes from here.
It will go up. Where else would it go? Afterall they own linux code. And very soon every linux user will be paying them $699 license fees
This was really informative. Thanxs
Billy G has a hidden clue in his webpage leading to looooonghorn http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp/
http://www.austinpowers.com/minime/minime.htm
They're trying to break down any barriers to setting up a blog
Isn't that supposed to be a good thing? Why should only geeks be allowed to have blogs?
Reminds me of the typical attitude some phoney geeks had towards linux, that it should not be made easy to install and use.
I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve http://www.slashdot.org
403 Forbidden
Is he using iTunes to manage all his songs?
You see, MS had a habit of hiring corporate spies to sit in the parking lot with binoculars and write down code snippets they saw on white-boards in the developers offices
This has got to be the biggest BS I have seen on slashdot
I wonder whether the discussions on slashdot, on topics such as these, have any influence on the decisions taken by promoters of products.
Yeah right. Keep living in your dream world, where CEO and CTO of every tech company make their decisions based on commments posted on Slashdot
I didnt have any problem. Upgraded from 0.8 to 0.9 on WinXP-Pro. Noia/Cute theme also continues to work without any problems.
No you are not missing anything. It is fucking CmdrTaco who is missing half his brain.
Seriously almost every dupe story is invariably posted by CmdrTaco
Does Mepis support ACPI Suspend/hibernate out of the box?
I understand your pain dude :)
I had never compiled and installed KDE from the source, it just felt too huge and complicated. But I gave it a shot this week and it turned to be a brainless exercise with konstruct. You just run this script and it automagically downloads, de-compresses, compiles and installs everything!!
:)
Three cheers to the KDE team
Everytime you buy a song, your size will increase by 20%
It's so bad it hurts
Oh come on. I think t was really funny. Note that this movie was aimed for high-school kids.