I'm sure the parent post will get modded into oblivion, seeing as how it's Christmas and people are looking for that warm fuzzy feeling.
Here are my suggestions : Convert anything with 16mb of ram or more into an X-terminal; load FreeDOS and maybe Windows 3.1 and use it for old games and legacy apps; use it to experiment with weird operating systems; if you program, test your code on it - your own impatience will improve your algorithms; attach it to some sort of household device, like a coffee maker, so you can control it over the network; make an IASD setup (irredundant array of shitty disks) and store all your important files on it;
...and last but not least : find a geek, preferably unmarried, who expresses interest in any of the preceding.
I'm suprised to see how many of the posters so far do not support this guy. I think his site is a parody, and I think it should be protected as such. Though he may have taken graphics or a stylesheet from the original site, those infringements are an essential component of the parody and I think he should be protected. Whether or not he *is* protected is another matter entirely. I've been reading the Copyright Act, and although I can find exceptions for news reporting and criticism (of the original work), I can't find one for parody. Nevertheless, I think it should be protected.
Linus said that if someone wanted to implement DRM or "trusted computing" using GPL code, then he would not be averse to it. Yes, there is a subtle undertone to his position, but that's why he's in charge;)
At first I was trying mount -a and the result was total failure. Then I decided to try mount/dev/swf1. She reccomended mount -h. I tried again with mount -s and it worked. I've since learned to use mount -ro to prevent dependency hell. Be careful if you let other people mount you, I've been the unwitting subject of mount -f, and once someone tried mount -p on me but I aborted, not being into that thing.
Sadly TeX is being replaced by (what else?) Microsoft Word. Not for scientific documents yet, but in businesses and governments around the world people stuggle to get page references and a proper index out of Microsoft Word. Those poor, damned souls.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that most of the nodes are DSL/Cable links in peoples' homes. Routing anything through them is going to be slow. It will also be inefficient, because you will have two routing protocols which are more likely than not to work against one another. The only way to have a fast, anonymous network is to make the internal nodes fast and anonymous. For that, you need the cooperation of ISPs.
I use KOffice a lot and I quite like it. It has a different design philosophy from OpenOffice. Rather than trying to be a be-all, end-all clone of the monolithic MS Office, it's a lean, functional suite which is well integrated with KDE. It is very fast and very easy to use. I encourage anyone running KDE to try it.
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I'm sure the parent post will get modded into oblivion, seeing as how it's Christmas and people are looking for that warm fuzzy feeling.
Here are my suggestions : Convert anything with 16mb of ram or more into an X-terminal; load FreeDOS and maybe Windows 3.1 and use it for old games and legacy apps; use it to experiment with weird operating systems; if you program, test your code on it - your own impatience will improve your algorithms; attach it to some sort of household device, like a coffee maker, so you can control it over the network; make an IASD setup (irredundant array of shitty disks) and store all your important files on it;
...and last but not least : find a geek, preferably unmarried, who expresses interest in any of the preceding.
It's not much of a credit card then, is it ?
He's trying to escape the BSA.
Isn't this just fodder for Microsoft ?
"...it's 2 a.m. - do you know whose software is running on your firewall ?"
Slashdot has already covered this, it was spun as "Msft charges for FAT filesystem".
I'm suprised to see how many of the posters so far do not support this guy. I think his site is a parody, and I think it should be protected as such. Though he may have taken graphics or a stylesheet from the original site, those infringements are an essential component of the parody and I think he should be protected. Whether or not he *is* protected is another matter entirely. I've been reading the Copyright Act, and although I can find exceptions for news reporting and criticism (of the original work), I can't find one for parody. Nevertheless, I think it should be protected.
Linus said that if someone wanted to implement DRM or "trusted computing" using GPL code, then he would not be averse to it. Yes, there is a subtle undertone to his position, but that's why he's in charge ;)
At first I was trying mount -a and the result was total failure. Then I decided to try mount /dev/swf1. She reccomended mount -h. I tried again with mount -s and it worked. I've since learned to use mount -ro to prevent dependency hell. Be careful if you let other people mount you, I've been the unwitting subject of mount -f, and once someone tried mount -p on me but I aborted, not being into that thing.
motorcycle chase scene ?
Set to a Will Smith "rap" "song" ?
Sadly TeX is being replaced by (what else?) Microsoft Word. Not for scientific documents yet, but in businesses and governments around the world people stuggle to get page references and a proper index out of Microsoft Word. Those poor, damned souls.
It could provide the impetus to a developer who was considering porting it anyway.
They tell you how to think and what to buy ?
Why couldn't I replace you with a computer program? Even a good calculator and textbook would be better than hiring you!
:)
Doing mathematics teaches you how to think. Should that become irrelevant, our civilization is over anyways
Truely, the good people of California have bestowed a blessing upon the world.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that most of the nodes are DSL/Cable links in peoples' homes. Routing anything through them is going to be slow. It will also be inefficient, because you will have two routing protocols which are more likely than not to work against one another. The only way to have a fast, anonymous network is to make the internal nodes fast and anonymous. For that, you need the cooperation of ISPs.
I wanted to throw something heavy at the screen during most of the showing.
Prehaps you are the Hulk ?
I live in a giant bucket.
My spoon is too big.
People who regularily smoke pot, versus people who regularily share files ? I'm not so sure anymore.
What about my flying car?
If you don't have one yet, it's your own fault.
what happens to your programs when you push a bunch of data they can't handle into them?
There's no data they "can't handle". If they can't make sense of the data, they fail gracefully and inform the user with an error. They do not crash.
They don't have a clear, overwhelming majority like the file-sharers do.
Wait for 2.6.1, some post above indicated this was still being worked on.
Wow, those are all great suggestions. And one of them could actually give me a blow job!
Who are you going to sue ? The government ? For making a law you don't like ?
I use KOffice a lot and I quite like it. It has a different design philosophy from OpenOffice. Rather than trying to be a be-all, end-all clone of the monolithic MS Office, it's a lean, functional suite which is well integrated with KDE. It is very fast and very easy to use. I encourage anyone running KDE to try it.