who said iraq wants a democracy? did anybody ask them if that's what they want? I'm just wondering.. did anybody ask them? how? who? who are we to decide what their government should be like?
You have a very good point there. How is anyone to know whether or not they want a democratic government? Oh, wait! I have an idea! Let's have them VOTE on it!
And Nimoy's Hobbit song wasn't Tolkien's fault, but it still made me want to stab myself in the eyes for a while. I got over it though... And I'm okay with Linux again. It's 5am and I'm still awake. What am I doing? Installing Slackware 7.1 on a 486 and loving it, by damn.
Ye Gods, my ears!! That makes me want to delete everything I didn't pay for, rip the penguin stickers off of all of my hardware, fdisk (MS-DOS Fdisk!) my servers and go back to working on my MCSE! That's worse than the Leonard Nimoy Hobbit song.
Microsoft didn't do much more to create IE than Apple did to create Safari. They "embraced and extended" Konqueror in much the same way that Microsoft did with Mosaic. I'm sure there's little if any Mosaic code still kicking around in IE, but initially it was a new look, more features, and a rebranding of third-party software, just like Safari is now.
Yeah - Sucks. But as things currently stand it's only a showstopper for the unfortunate segment that has that particular breed of BIOS and chipset. Now what if that BIOS has about ten times the control it used to, and can run C programs? And that "If your mobo supports it" thing is a big one - If this becomes the standard, as I'm sure it will, then virtually everybody's mobo supports it. It's really cool, but it has the potential to undermine any and everything that an OS could do to remain secure, and I think it's a step in the wrong direction until things like Outlook and IE are either fixed or gone.
It all sounds like a good idea, but "non-volatile" is the last thing I'd call anything that's stored on a hard disk. My BIOS is ugly, but scripties aren't playing around in my firmware. Right now the worst a virus can do is force you to blitz your drive and reinstall an OS. How'd you like the next Code Red to render machines completely unbootable, or perhaps even damage hardware? It sounds great, really, but don't put it on a hard disk. Also, It's been done, to a degree. Some laptops store BIOS settings on a hard disk, and it's a bitch when an OS upgrade braindeads it, or keeps it from suspending, etc...
I get NO telemarketing calls EVER. You too can live like I do - Here's how...
Why They Call You:
You have (or they think you have) money. You bought something from one of their brethren before, or off the television, you bought a house, a car, got a bank loan of any type, or you signed up for a credit card. I did each of these things at least once in the span of six months. I was spammed relentlessly. I got about six to ten calls a day, no joke. But There Is A Way To Fix This.
Why They Don't Call:
You don't have (or they think you don't have) money. Bad Things happened to me that I won't go into here, but suffice it to say, my credit became horrendous. This was the beginning of my salvation from telemarketing. Rack up some debt on those cards, get your house foreclosed, cars reposessed, default on your loan(s), give back the goddamn Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner. Soon the telemarketers stop. They really do. They have no interest in you, and they are replaced entirely by pissed-off creditors.
There's one last step, the spider swallowed to catch the proverbial fly - You've liberated yourself from most of your other bills already, why not stop paying the phone bill too? The result is blissful silence, and with all of the money you've saved you can get a (prepaid of course) cell phone and start back over. Your credit score prevents you from making any of those foolish mistakes again, and telemarketers shun you like the plague.
I'm pretty much a one-man IT department for a small company. I do a little of everything, and I've done this sort of thing for about six years. I like it.
Actually the pointer's one of the things that made me (mistakenly) think it was just WINE implemented on a new kernel. It does resemble X with a very light WM, but it's obviously much more than that. The idea that ReactOS does, or that it's going to, use genuine Windows drivers is just phenomenal. It's a pity that NT4 drivers are getting much less common for new hardware, but I have to assume that 2k/XP support is on the way. About the pointer though - Fire up KaZaA Lite under WINE (isn't that the main reason many of us use WINE?=)) and hover your pointer over the window. You'll get the same pointer you see in the screenshot.
Anyone else notice from one of the screenshots on the website that this thing appears to be using WINE and X11 to run GUI Windows apps? Check it out...
First let's assume this is true. I'm having a hard time with it, but GOBBLES isn't a group that I laugh too hard at. That being said...
First, all p2p-serving
software on the machine is infected
I wonder if this applies to a *NIX box running Kazaa Lite under WINE? I'm curious as to how it finds and infects "all" P2P clients. Does it look for (ex) "c:\Program Files\Kazaa Media Desktop, "c:\Program Files\Kazaa Lite" or some such? Does it just scan the hard disk for the executable file? Can a corrupted MP3 file cause a player to execute enough code (And what kind of code?) to even do that? I doubt it, and if it can't actually scan the disk then I'm thinking it would have some trouble finding something like "/home/user/.wine/fake_windows/program files/etc..." I think this is far-fetched, and at best I think the claims of its cababilities are hugely exaggerated, although as some have mentioned it's a wonderful excuse for converting to OGG. GOBBLES has said before that it mainly just wants fame. The RIAA isn't going to confirm or deny this stuff. I think they're just beating their chests from the highest tree they can climb.
...those who tend to prefer distributions in the Red Hat/RPM lineage to the Debian/apt-get lineage
Some distibutions have both. I'm surprised more people don't use this one. It's almost like a hybrid of Mandrake and Debian. (Leaning closer to Mandrake, but less big-endian by default.) I wish more distributions did it this way.
You may have something there with that whole language thing. I have some extremely early memories. Some traumatic, some not even noteworthy. I remember my first day of three-year-old kindergarten vividly. That was traumatic. I was really digging it, but no one told me that Dad was going to leave me there. It was my first time in the company of only complete strangers. But it's not just traumatic stuff, not even mostly traumatic stuff. I remember some from the days leading up to that first day of kindergarten, and how excited I was when Mom was telling me about it in the little blue Chevette. My sister was too little to go, I liked that. It was a total letdown though. There was no "Candy Garden" where I was going, and it really hurt my feelings when I saw the most massive, beautiful, awe-inspring pile of crayons ever witnessed get shaved down with a cheese grater and melted into these muddy-brown "candles" that we weren't even allowed to light. I remember the first time I saw blood, and that was before I was doing a lot of walking, because I pulled myself up from the floor to the opened dishwasher, grabbed a knife and proceeded to saw up an orange, and a finger. Before that, I remember coming to understand that "Baby Scott," the little brother that was inside Mommy, was actually Baby Heather when she came home from the hospital; she's a year and a half younger than me. I vividly remember diapers, my crib, my walker, and I think my earliest memories involve the extreme frustration of not being able to talk. I remember being hungry and yelling about it, then Mom comes in and changes my diaper, but no bottle.
I'm told that my first clear words were at four months, and that my first complete sentence was at eight months, and if the connection you've made with language means anything, then it explains why my first few years are so clear and I can remember back further than most of the people I've discussed this sort of thing with.
And if the connection that some have made with alcohol and pot mean anything, then it explains why my past few years are so vague and why I can't remember a damn thing I did last week.
Well, a large segment of the population (and probably a very large section of Slashdot) doesn't watch television anymore. It's not a bad idea. Lately everything I know about the world around me comes from Reuters.com or some other news site. Most of the entertainment I used to get from television came from the History Channel, Discovery, or A&E which have all long been replaced by Alta Vista and then by Google. I get my local news from the radio on the way to work, and that's only because I don't have a browser in my car and I have to watch the road. If I feel the need for mindless, non-interactive comedy then yes, I turn to TV shows, but they all got here through a peer network and there are no commercials. Movies? Sure, but not on the TV. I only watch television when I'm stuck in a hotel without internet access. I don't download America's Most Wanted or Unsolved Mysteries, so if Uncle Sam wants to let me know that my friend Blake has been smuggling cocaine inside of infants sold to a branch of the Mafia that he runs, it's going to have to be through the web, and it will have to be through ads, because I'm not going to look for this on my own. For once these people are doing something useful. I am certain there are others like me, and that number won't be getting smaller.
This seems nifty and all, but how efficient can it be? I have no idea how much juice the typical concert PA system uses, but I'll bet it's more than my fridge. I'd love to have one though - It would be neat if I could shoot a hole in it and suddenly have a couple of locomotive horns going off in the kitchen, making people's hair catch on fire and so on...
I agree, and nevermind it being true to the book's description of an acid trip - It's just plain accurate. I almost had flashbacks watching that movie.
DOS did little more than provide a way to execute programs, and a way for programs to get at the hardware. That's exactly why I liked it. I used DOS exclusively for a long time. (Sorry - I didn't have a *NIX at my disposal) I didn't start using Windows 3.1 until Windows 95 was gearing up for OSR2. I had to switch to a GUI because I just had to try this "web browser" thing I kept seeing on BBSes for download. Did anyone ever have DOS freeze up the computer? I mean DOS by itself, without anything else running? Even Linux, my OS of choice, can do that. And Windows is known for it.
Anyway, the whole reason I wrote this is to say that as long as I still have a use for Ghost, I will still have a use for DOS.
I think you're onto something with that whole wing-dropping idea... It could be used in military craft so that when the fuel-filled wings hit the ground and blow things up, it might be things they wanted to blow up in the first place. Use it in a passenger plane though, and you risk raining down hellfire on countless people to save a handful, which would suck.
It's a simple idea. Sure, a complicated one to engineer, but far less complex than the plane itself, and certainly one that could have been realized a long time ago. It surprises me that it's taken almost a century of aviation to implement something like this. Better late than never, though.
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who said iraq wants a democracy? did anybody ask them if that's what they want? I'm just wondering.. did anybody ask them? how? who? who are we to decide what their government should be like?
You have a very good point there. How is anyone to know whether or not they want a democratic government? Oh, wait! I have an idea! Let's have them VOTE on it!
And Nimoy's Hobbit song wasn't Tolkien's fault, but it still made me want to stab myself in the eyes for a while. I got over it though... And I'm okay with Linux again. It's 5am and I'm still awake. What am I doing? Installing Slackware 7.1 on a 486 and loving it, by damn.
Ye Gods, my ears!! That makes me want to delete everything I didn't pay for, rip the penguin stickers off of all of my hardware, fdisk (MS-DOS Fdisk!) my servers and go back to working on my MCSE! That's worse than the Leonard Nimoy Hobbit song.
Why run a GUI at all on a server?
Microsoft didn't do much more to create IE than Apple did to create Safari. They "embraced and extended" Konqueror in much the same way that Microsoft did with Mosaic. I'm sure there's little if any Mosaic code still kicking around in IE, but initially it was a new look, more features, and a rebranding of third-party software, just like Safari is now.
Yeah - Sucks. But as things currently stand it's only a showstopper for the unfortunate segment that has that particular breed of BIOS and chipset. Now what if that BIOS has about ten times the control it used to, and can run C programs? And that "If your mobo supports it" thing is a big one - If this becomes the standard, as I'm sure it will, then virtually everybody's mobo supports it. It's really cool, but it has the potential to undermine any and everything that an OS could do to remain secure, and I think it's a step in the wrong direction until things like Outlook and IE are either fixed or gone.
It all sounds like a good idea, but "non-volatile" is the last thing I'd call anything that's stored on a hard disk. My BIOS is ugly, but scripties aren't playing around in my firmware. Right now the worst a virus can do is force you to blitz your drive and reinstall an OS. How'd you like the next Code Red to render machines completely unbootable, or perhaps even damage hardware? It sounds great, really, but don't put it on a hard disk. Also, It's been done, to a degree. Some laptops store BIOS settings on a hard disk, and it's a bitch when an OS upgrade braindeads it, or keeps it from suspending, etc...
Makes more sense like this...
C:\DOS>
C:\DOS>RUN
RUN DOS RUN
I get NO telemarketing calls EVER. You too can live like I do - Here's how...
Why They Call You:
You have (or they think you have) money. You bought something from one of their brethren before, or off the television, you bought a house, a car, got a bank loan of any type, or you signed up for a credit card. I did each of these things at least once in the span of six months. I was spammed relentlessly. I got about six to ten calls a day, no joke. But There Is A Way To Fix This.
Why They Don't Call:
You don't have (or they think you don't have) money. Bad Things happened to me that I won't go into here, but suffice it to say, my credit became horrendous. This was the beginning of my salvation from telemarketing. Rack up some debt on those cards, get your house foreclosed, cars reposessed, default on your loan(s), give back the goddamn Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner. Soon the telemarketers stop. They really do. They have no interest in you, and they are replaced entirely by pissed-off creditors.
There's one last step, the spider swallowed to catch the proverbial fly - You've liberated yourself from most of your other bills already, why not stop paying the phone bill too? The result is blissful silence, and with all of the money you've saved you can get a (prepaid of course) cell phone and start back over. Your credit score prevents you from making any of those foolish mistakes again, and telemarketers shun you like the plague.
I'm pretty much a one-man IT department for a small company. I do a little of everything, and I've done this sort of thing for about six years. I like it.
But what I'd really like to be, is a lumberjack.
Actually the pointer's one of the things that made me (mistakenly) think it was just WINE implemented on a new kernel. It does resemble X with a very light WM, but it's obviously much more than that. The idea that ReactOS does, or that it's going to, use genuine Windows drivers is just phenomenal. It's a pity that NT4 drivers are getting much less common for new hardware, but I have to assume that 2k/XP support is on the way. About the pointer though - Fire up KaZaA Lite under WINE (isn't that the main reason many of us use WINE?=)) and hover your pointer over the window. You'll get the same pointer you see in the screenshot.
Anyone else notice from one of the screenshots on the website that this thing appears to be using WINE and X11 to run GUI Windows apps? Check it out...
Can you email him? For free?
First let's assume this is true. I'm having a hard time with it, but GOBBLES isn't a group that I laugh too hard at. That being said...
First, all p2p-serving software on the machine is infected
I wonder if this applies to a *NIX box running Kazaa Lite under WINE? I'm curious as to how it finds and infects "all" P2P clients. Does it look for (ex) "c:\Program Files\Kazaa Media Desktop, "c:\Program Files\Kazaa Lite" or some such? Does it just scan the hard disk for the executable file? Can a corrupted MP3 file cause a player to execute enough code (And what kind of code?) to even do that? I doubt it, and if it can't actually scan the disk then I'm thinking it would have some trouble finding something like "/home/user/.wine/fake_windows/program files/etc..." I think this is far-fetched, and at best I think the claims of its cababilities are hugely exaggerated, although as some have mentioned it's a wonderful excuse for converting to OGG. GOBBLES has said before that it mainly just wants fame. The RIAA isn't going to confirm or deny this stuff. I think they're just beating their chests from the highest tree they can climb.
...those who tend to prefer distributions in the Red Hat/RPM lineage to the Debian/apt-get lineage
Some distibutions have both. I'm surprised more people don't use this one. It's almost like a hybrid of Mandrake and Debian. (Leaning closer to Mandrake, but less big-endian by default.) I wish more distributions did it this way.
You may have something there with that whole language thing. I have some extremely early memories. Some traumatic, some not even noteworthy. I remember my first day of three-year-old kindergarten vividly. That was traumatic. I was really digging it, but no one told me that Dad was going to leave me there. It was my first time in the company of only complete strangers. But it's not just traumatic stuff, not even mostly traumatic stuff. I remember some from the days leading up to that first day of kindergarten, and how excited I was when Mom was telling me about it in the little blue Chevette. My sister was too little to go, I liked that. It was a total letdown though. There was no "Candy Garden" where I was going, and it really hurt my feelings when I saw the most massive, beautiful, awe-inspring pile of crayons ever witnessed get shaved down with a cheese grater and melted into these muddy-brown "candles" that we weren't even allowed to light. I remember the first time I saw blood, and that was before I was doing a lot of walking, because I pulled myself up from the floor to the opened dishwasher, grabbed a knife and proceeded to saw up an orange, and a finger. Before that, I remember coming to understand that "Baby Scott," the little brother that was inside Mommy, was actually Baby Heather when she came home from the hospital; she's a year and a half younger than me. I vividly remember diapers, my crib, my walker, and I think my earliest memories involve the extreme frustration of not being able to talk. I remember being hungry and yelling about it, then Mom comes in and changes my diaper, but no bottle.
I'm told that my first clear words were at four months, and that my first complete sentence was at eight months, and if the connection you've made with language means anything, then it explains why my first few years are so clear and I can remember back further than most of the people I've discussed this sort of thing with.
And if the connection that some have made with alcohol and pot mean anything, then it explains why my past few years are so vague and why I can't remember a damn thing I did last week.
Well, a large segment of the population (and probably a very large section of Slashdot) doesn't watch television anymore. It's not a bad idea. Lately everything I know about the world around me comes from Reuters.com or some other news site. Most of the entertainment I used to get from television came from the History Channel, Discovery, or A&E which have all long been replaced by Alta Vista and then by Google. I get my local news from the radio on the way to work, and that's only because I don't have a browser in my car and I have to watch the road. If I feel the need for mindless, non-interactive comedy then yes, I turn to TV shows, but they all got here through a peer network and there are no commercials. Movies? Sure, but not on the TV. I only watch television when I'm stuck in a hotel without internet access. I don't download America's Most Wanted or Unsolved Mysteries, so if Uncle Sam wants to let me know that my friend Blake has been smuggling cocaine inside of infants sold to a branch of the Mafia that he runs, it's going to have to be through the web, and it will have to be through ads, because I'm not going to look for this on my own. For once these people are doing something useful. I am certain there are others like me, and that number won't be getting smaller.
This seems nifty and all, but how efficient can it be? I have no idea how much juice the typical concert PA system uses, but I'll bet it's more than my fridge. I'd love to have one though - It would be neat if I could shoot a hole in it and suddenly have a couple of locomotive horns going off in the kitchen, making people's hair catch on fire and so on...
Nah, it's not like I'm going to get Tux tattooed on my body any time soon... It's going to take a while for wife to let me.
I've already donated mine.
I agree, and nevermind it being true to the book's description of an acid trip - It's just plain accurate. I almost had flashbacks watching that movie.
DOS did little more than provide a way to execute programs, and a way for programs to get at the hardware. That's exactly why I liked it. I used DOS exclusively for a long time. (Sorry - I didn't have a *NIX at my disposal) I didn't start using Windows 3.1 until Windows 95 was gearing up for OSR2. I had to switch to a GUI because I just had to try this "web browser" thing I kept seeing on BBSes for download. Did anyone ever have DOS freeze up the computer? I mean DOS by itself, without anything else running? Even Linux, my OS of choice, can do that. And Windows is known for it.
Anyway, the whole reason I wrote this is to say that as long as I still have a use for Ghost, I will still have a use for DOS.
I think you're onto something with that whole wing-dropping idea... It could be used in military craft so that when the fuel-filled wings hit the ground and blow things up, it might be things they wanted to blow up in the first place. Use it in a passenger plane though, and you risk raining down hellfire on countless people to save a handful, which would suck.
It's a simple idea. Sure, a complicated one to engineer, but far less complex than the plane itself, and certainly one that could have been realized a long time ago. It surprises me that it's taken almost a century of aviation to implement something like this. Better late than never, though.