Is whatever happened to Alta Vista. Remember when they ruled the search engine universe?
I first heard of Google when I got a semi-hysterical letter from Assembler God Steve Gibson raving about it.
I didn't abandon AV until after their second edition of Personal Alta Vista insisted on using my browser (where the first edition used a little window) and engendered a whole bunch of 505 errors and became useless.
The whole thing with *NIX that makes it great is that it will never be easy for the masses.
Bill Gates sold his soul by creating easy to use software that reins the user in.
The *NIX people forfeited popularity by building an OS that is intrinsically elitist, in an honest way, like a pro sports league in that the common man can never be good enough to make the team.
The masses MUST stick with Windows. Only the few can play in the Super Bowl.
Of Turing and Von Neuman etc The King is Ken Thompson.
The reason is several fold.
1 - He was part of the team that invented C.
2 - He invented UNIX. Think about it. He invented UNIX. Everybody moons over Linus and ESR but Thompson INVENTED UNIX.....
3 - When I was getting my first computer education at Humber College in the mid seventies we were that taught everything was cut into 80 byte chunks, to fit the cards we were using. Even HASP (Houston Automatic Spooling Program) we used on the big 10 MB kettle-like 3030 disks on the IBM 370-145 computer spooled our cards in 80 byte chunks. I knew it was bullshit even then but I didn't have the education to do anything about it, but KT did. HE turned everything into a bit stream, and I think the UNIX people here will back me up on this.
With UNIX, everything is a bit stream. The card reader is a bit stream, the disk drive is a bit stream, everything is a bit stream.
And you know what? The mp3s you make are also a bit stream and nothing is allowed to interfere with the free flow of bit streams between computers that want them to flow.
Today's compressed music P2P piracy philosophy is created entirely by this concept. By the way - in his WIRED interview KT mentioned compressed a compressed music format called PAC. Apparently he turned that into a C program too, from FORTRAN. It's better than MP3, too. So why isn't it out there?
He also did multi processor computer chess, the precursor of Deep Whatever, that's today's best chess machine.
Is there ANYTHING KT hasn't hugely improved or even made practical where it wasn't before?
KT is the shit. He dwells upon Mount Olympus. He's number one on this list, or there better be a damn good reason why not.
Actually I remember when a friend of mine down the street talked to me furious on ICQ that he was trying to change a card in his computer and the store had heat-glued all the boards in and he was so pissed he was going to have a stroke...
I got his butt to a local bar and got a beer in him... may have saved his life....
I've opened many a case in my time and I figure some of these case designers missed their calling, which was to design traps that guard Pharaoh's tombs.
These tyrannical regimes, which are based entirely on force, are not going to honour the GPL license.
They'll use the open source code to plant all kinds of back doors and other spy gear on their version of Linux then make the binary compulsory to use in their countries and no one will ever see the source code.
They'll probably put a dumbed down GUI on it too.
What are we going to do - declare war on China because Linus is unhappy?
I ran a BBS for years and we had this amazing Door (external program - usually a game ) call LORD for Legends of the Red Dragon.
One of the most perfectly designed games I have ever seen, you could get to level 6 of twelve before it demanded to be registered. I heard the writer got 30,000 registrations - at $20 US per that's 600 grand from a computer program. Not bad.
FAQ at http://www.3dham.com/online.html
Re:Do you know what the WIFE of the
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Uncle Tungsten
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They ALSO need 10 stars on eBay and excellent Karma on/. !
Are you sure it's legal to wrap OGG?
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Real DRM
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Isn't it's licence supposed to keep it wide open?
Or is it so liberal that it lets anyone do anything they want with it?
BoingBoing is amazing
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When this was a physical magazine, it was one of the most fun, intelligent and readable cyber magazines ever. I bought my copies at the short lived Binary Cafe in Toronto (three computers on dialup to the net...) - and now I can't find them.
Kind of like Mondo 2000, Wired and National Lampoon (jeez - anyone here remember when those were good?) all rolled into one. Now it's a web site and a HECK of a mail list.
Highly recommended and I'm looking forward to DLing the book. (As soon as the/. effect ends.)
Slashdot Mirror
It won't be getting closer anytime soon.
Is whatever happened to Alta Vista. Remember when they ruled the search engine universe?
:-(
I first heard of Google when I got a semi-hysterical letter from Assembler God Steve Gibson raving about it.
I didn't abandon AV until after their second edition of Personal Alta Vista insisted on using my browser (where the first edition used a little window) and engendered a whole bunch of 505 errors and became useless.
They HAD to add a layer of complexity...
So whatever DID happen to Alta Vista?
They stuck it to him now he's sticking it to them with a book on how to be a digital grifter.
Revenge is sweet.
If the transmitter uses the radio signal itself as a power source, how strong can the reply be?
I think we'll need a BIG satellite for that one.
That just makes my point, doesn't it?
All Mac OS's are like training wheels you can never remove.
This guy brought more assholes to the internet than everyone else put together.
Good riddence.
The whole thing with *NIX that makes it great is that it will never be easy for the masses.
Bill Gates sold his soul by creating easy to use software that reins the user in.
The *NIX people forfeited popularity by building an OS that is intrinsically elitist, in an honest way, like a pro sports league in that the common man can never be good enough to make the team.
The masses MUST stick with Windows. Only the few can play in the Super Bowl.
Of Turing and Von Neuman etc The King is Ken Thompson.
The reason is several fold.
1 - He was part of the team that invented C.
2 - He invented UNIX. Think about it. He invented UNIX. Everybody moons over Linus and ESR but Thompson INVENTED UNIX.....
3 - When I was getting my first computer education at Humber College in the mid seventies we were that taught everything was cut into 80 byte chunks, to fit the cards we were using. Even HASP (Houston Automatic Spooling Program) we used on the big 10 MB kettle-like 3030 disks on the IBM 370-145 computer spooled our cards in 80 byte chunks. I knew it was bullshit even then but I didn't have the education to do anything about it, but KT did. HE turned everything into a bit stream, and I think the UNIX people here will back me up on this.
With UNIX, everything is a bit stream. The card reader is a bit stream, the disk drive is a bit stream, everything is a bit stream.
And you know what? The mp3s you make are also a bit stream and nothing is allowed to interfere with the free flow of bit streams between computers that want them to flow.
Today's compressed music P2P piracy philosophy is created entirely by this concept. By the way - in his WIRED interview KT mentioned compressed a compressed music format called PAC. Apparently he turned that into a C program too, from FORTRAN. It's better than MP3, too. So why isn't it out there?
He also did multi processor computer chess, the precursor of Deep Whatever, that's today's best chess machine.
Is there ANYTHING KT hasn't hugely improved or even made practical where it wasn't before?
KT is the shit. He dwells upon Mount Olympus. He's number one on this list, or there better be a damn good reason why not.
Actually I remember when a friend of mine down the street talked to me furious on ICQ that he was trying to change a card in his computer and the store had heat-glued all the boards in and he was so pissed he was going to have a stroke...
I got his butt to a local bar and got a beer in him... may have saved his life....
I've opened many a case in my time and I figure some of these case designers missed their calling, which was to design traps that guard Pharaoh's tombs.
When will we see the utopian frog-on-a-lilly-pad wi-fi stuff I read about in Wired?
GIRLS can get laid.
These tyrannical regimes, which are based entirely on force, are not going to honour the GPL license.
They'll use the open source code to plant all kinds of back doors and other spy gear on their version of Linux then make the binary compulsory to use in their countries and no one will ever see the source code.
They'll probably put a dumbed down GUI on it too.
What are we going to do - declare war on China because Linus is unhappy?
It got a near-hysterical review on Mondo 2000 back in the day and was worth all the crap I had to go through to get it.
It shows up on eBay these days.
I ran a BBS for years and we had this amazing Door (external program - usually a game ) call LORD for Legends of the Red Dragon.
One of the most perfectly designed games I have ever seen, you could get to level 6 of twelve before it demanded to be registered. I heard the writer got 30,000 registrations - at $20 US per that's 600 grand from a computer program. Not bad.
FAQ at http://www.3dham.com/online.html
Wow - just had your first beer, huh schoolgirl?
They ALSO need 10 stars on eBay and excellent Karma on /. !
Isn't it's licence supposed to keep it wide open?
Or is it so liberal that it lets anyone do anything they want with it?
When this was a physical magazine, it was one of the most fun, intelligent and readable cyber magazines ever. I bought my copies at the short lived Binary Cafe in Toronto (three computers on dialup to the net...) - and now I can't find them.
/. effect ends.)
Kind of like Mondo 2000, Wired and National Lampoon (jeez - anyone here remember when those were good?) all rolled into one. Now it's a web site and a HECK of a mail list.
Highly recommended and I'm looking forward to DLing the book. (As soon as the
Let's see how much unwanted DRM they lumber THIS one with...
One of the best debuggers I ever used is what I'm currently coding in - CA Clipper. Does it all, and I use VB 6 as well, so I know this is true.
More US technomilitary fetish.
This isn't going to stop them from wrapping it up in Iraq in 3 days, though.
You ever tried to pick up chicks by elaborating on the history of the undo command in a dark bar?
Let me know how it works out.
Sooner or later, these MMORPGs will saturate the market. It'll be interesting the first time one of them folds.
This is just a corporate software screwup.
People are getting yelled at, people are busting their asses to fix this, meanwhile a C student flak is screwing up in the media. No big deal.
This will resolve itself realsoonnow and when it does the corp will make a big fuss to make everyone understand it's ok.