Damn I wish I had mod points. Number five is damn hillarious. Especially the "ROWR" part. I can only picture someone like Danny DeVito reading all the above lines.
...in college who did his doctoral o this exact subject. He later went on to work for ABC television. His basic gist was that it's the porn industry that actually works out the practical logistics of any new medium. At the time he was talking about the porn industry building the VHS video industry. A lot of movie studios were reluctant to put movies on VHS since they feared it would destroy their industry. But the porno business had nothing to lose as they were relegated to booths and shady theaters. So... they put ALL of their movies out on VHS. All those people out there who would NEVER be caught dead in a porno movie house or booth suddenly had access in their own living rooms and [BAM!!!] a new empire was born. Too bad porno movies soundtracks are so bad, otherwise the porno industry would probably have the online music distribution down pat in a short time.
...depending on how invested you are in your parent's computing.:)
My parents had the luck of having me network their house before I moved out after college. So the Cat 5 went to every room. Originally my parents had two Windows 98 machines that I stuck behind a linux firewall which certainly made life pretty easy for them for a while. But was Windows got targetted more and more, my parents were getting fed up with the maintenance they had to do to keep their systems up. Finally, this year my Mom said, "We'd like to try Linux. We don't want to buy new PCs to run Windows XP, so can we try Linux"? Of course I took them up on the offer
The plan was that my Mom would get the Linux PC and my dad would keep his Windows box for now. That way if they wound up not liking Linux or not being able to use it, they'd still have access to one machine they were familiar with. But, I had a little surprise for them. I took my mom's machine back to my place and found that it was a little too slow for RedHat 9. No matter, I had two Pentium II 233s in the basement that weren't being used at the moment. So, I took both of them and the iMac-wannabe cases I didn't need any more and threw together two new systems.
I installed RedHat 9, but left off the bundled versions of Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Xmms, and a few other apps. Then I worked on custom compiling the kernel to get smoother operation out of the boxes (including the pre-emptive kernel patch). The latest Samba went on for file sharing and interoperability with their Windows box. I also designed a few very professional looking icons for the OpenOffice.org suite, and "M" icons for Mozilla and Mozilla Mail (to mimic the "e" for Explorer). I layed out a custom Gnome Panel with all the possible buttons and drawers they would need. I installed the latest CVS W.I.N.E. and brought over a few of the Windows apps that they still wanted. I built the latest MPlayer for video and Xmms with MP3 support. Put a nice logout/shutdown button on the Gnome Panel at the far right and imported all the old Windows documents (Word, Excel, IE Favorites and some BMPs and GIFs). The simplest, but nicest (according to my dad) touch was some really nice desktop backgrounds of scenic shots from Australia that I took myself. To make things easier for them and myself, I also set them up with ssh connections to my server at my house that automatically log in with Public Key Authentication and set up tunnels for the x0vncserver and ssh. This makes remote support of their systems very easy. All they have to do is click on an icon when their dialup connection is up and I have access to their machines. They also have access to my private Jabber server and mail server over the tunnel as well.
I started on the project in late October and polished it through to X-Mas. My parents were only expecting one computer, but I brought both of them and boy were they happy. I told them that they could try them out for a few months and if it didn't work out, I had no problem helping them look for new Windows XP machines. I also told them that I coud provide "tech support" any time they needed it as long as I was near a computer. So far, I've only had a ew remote support sessions because the machines are easy enough for them to do most of what they need. After I got them set up with a Netgear TCP/IP print server, RedHat's printing setup mechanism got things going in less than 15 minutes. So my dad has been working with OpenOffice.org's Calc spreadsheet app and printing out what he needs. He told me, "This is just like Office"!
My birthday is coming up at th end of the week. I got a birthday card from my folks that they printed up using Mozilla on Linux to access a web based card designing app hosted by American Greetings (I think). So far it's ony a few months in, but my parents are happy. About the only problem they've had is the occasional IE only web site. They love the fast performance and stability of their new systems compared to their older
It can only be attributed to human error
on
Can Software Kill?
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· Score: 4, Funny
The article focuses on a programming error that resulted in 28 Panamanian cancer patients receiving many times an expected lethal dose of radiation.
So are you saying they INTENDED to kill their patients and this software just did it more efficiently?;P
So it's an MP3 player with an iPod skin? What's the problem? It's not like there are any Windows Pocket PC systems out there that actually have the REAL interface that the iPod does. And what about all the hardware connections that the iPod has? Hm... Sounds like a snow lews day to me.;P
NAME
CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
SYNOPSIS
Interactive mode:
perl -MCPAN -e shell;
Batch mode:
use CPAN;
autobundle, clean, install, make, recompile, test
DESCRIPTION
The CPAN module is designed to automate the make and install of perl
modules and extensions. It includes some searching capabilities and
knows how to use Net::FTP or LWP (or lynx or an external ftp client) to
fetch the raw data from the net...
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Sorry, but it would be a lot harder than an e-mail with instructions to do a mass mailing Linux worm.
Linux(TM) is a trademark of The SCO Group. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
So I take it you "paid your $699 fee you cocksmoking teabagger"?;) I mean you said you used the TM with permission... What else is there to assume other than you are a "$699 fee paying, cocksmoking, teabagger"? [Daffy Duck Sounds as I Bounce Away]
Hey! I'll bet a lot of Slashdotters are in their late twenties to mid-thirties. I wouldn't exactly consider that the younger generation. And I would also guess that most of us thirty somethings have far more money to spend on video games too. Finally, I'm betting that most of the 5-11PM gamers are thirtysomethings.
That's why a lot of us are using SSH tunnels or VPNs with our own IM protocols, DNS and mail servers. There's a whole phantom internet out there and a lot of people don't even realize it.
Personally, I've been using ssh and Jabber to IM with all my friends. The only thing that's required is that I give them a custom configured ssh client,.ssh/config file and point them to a Jabber client. It's worked well, and no one else has access to the Jabber server other than the people who I've allowed in. Same with e-mail. Sure, I still have to interact with the outside world, but most of my friends and family are pointed to my mail server and use SSH tunnels to communicate with me. They don't see it as an inconvenience because to them, they just double click the "Connect to the T4D Network" icon on their desktop and then use their mail/IM/web clients like they would any other time. When they're done, they just click the "X" in the upper right corner of the CMD window that has a nice friendly message in it that says, "Close this window to disconnect from the T4D network".
I can only imagine that this will become more commonplace as these technologies get easier to use. Tunnels and VPN are sure to be the next "big thing" once they are really simple enough to install. So far my installation experiences with people who want to access the T4D network have just been to email them a zip file and tell them where to put the extracted files. But a double click wizard would be nicer... Can't code in Windows though because I don't have the money to waste on a compiler.
...we get that. But I really want some of you to take a look at this guy's rant about Anime nerds. He's spot on. Sure, I've got my DVD of Akira, some old VHS tapes with Ghost in the Shell, Armitige, etc... I've enjoyed Totoro, Iria, and the like. I even took Japanese (long before I watched anime with any regularity) because I am into it. But, you wouldn't catch me anywhere talking about the philosophy behind an anime film and how it applies to the real world. I will never get into heated discussions about the balance of good and evil in a cartoon, or come to the defense of my favorite anime character (must admit that I don't have one) when someone else assails them for being a weak person. Get a life people! Oh... and the link I referred to above is hillarious. Check it out. Really.
You are correct sir. Business and money bore the crap out of me. To be honest, what the geeks should do is code a way to make MBAs obsolete. Automate the whole money making/money management/business workflow procedure so that we are managed by machines rather than people. Then make sure those machines are managed by ethical geeks.:)
Welcome to my Friends list. The point you bring up is not only accepted, but overlooked. I think a lot of people don't even perceive the inherent flaw in capitalism as abused by the U.S.
...Windows is becoming more Unix like but just using friendlier terms. I recently discovered in XP that the display manager and audio server in XP appear to operate in a very similar way to Gnome on XFree86 and esound. What led me to this discovery was that I started up a Cisco VPN client session and it hosed some of my network connections to my internal LAN. It also broke sound to where I couldn't listen to any media. When I disconnected from VPN, the sound came back. And if you think about it, the "Fast User Switching" feature in Windows XP is basically a nice GUI interface to switching between multiple display servers. Just like running multiple X servers each on a different virtual console and pressing Alt- to get to each user's desktop. Anyone think some of the improvements in the Windows GUI have anything in common with XFree86?
...I don't seewhat the big news is. I got one of these for $79 in November 2003. It's nice, but it's not the greatest. And it sucks for games... How is this news?
...this project would be a little better of a choice for VPN than FreeSWAN? I've been looking it over and it looks pretty cool. I still have to actually try it though.
Would authors ask young writers to turn away from libraries? What about videographers and television producers asking young aspirants to documentaries to turn away from PBS? Or maybe radio journalists asking young aspiring journalists with an interest in radio to turn away from public radio?
There should always be an alternative to the mainstream because the mainstream is only cooked up for the average knuckle dragging person. For people who don't fit into those nice little pigeon holes, there always should be something else. The author of this letter apparently doesn't understand that need. He is only being self serving which is probably the worst thing you CAN be in your short time on Earth.
Of course the idiotic masses are being swayed over to this way of thinking because there are fewer and fewer alternatives. Their minds are being poisoned by the incessant mental pollution that is the mainstream. And once they are sucked in, it's hard for them to get out because they are no longer equipped to fight submission. Sorry, but this guy needs a reality check and he needs to stop putting his nees first. Why are we even here if not to help each other?
I'll clarify my point al ittle further. I also dislike it when an actor poorly fakes an accent or dialect. If Mos Def can successfully fake a biritish accent and play the Ford character as it was meant to be played (a 70s british hipster), then it would be fine. But I doubt the makers of this new film want Ford to be a 70s british hispter. They want him to probably be an up to the minute 21st century AMERICAN hipster. Again, I wouldn't have aproblem if they played that the new Ford likes raves and has done some D.J.ing in the trance music world. That fits, because it's more Euro than American. However, if they want American audiences to relate (which is a big mistake),they are probably going to want to make him either a hip-hop guy or some kind of rocker (as the hero as opposed to the ridiculous character that Hotblack was). Either one being a poor choice.
I also want to point out that I never made any assumptions about Mos Def being black or white before posting my original comment. I was unaware of his race until enough people bitched about it here. It doesn't matter to me if he was white or not, if he is a modern hip-hop artist, it's unlikely that he has much to bring to HHGTTG.
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...if it were applied to noise reduction of one's ass after a good bean based dinner. ;p
This picture has been around for a Loooooong time. It's not new by any *stretch* ;)
There is always the possibility that some of us don't need/want to get paid. There are two forms of "creative" product:
Music as art/Music as a business
Film as art/Film as a business
Writing as art/Writing as a business
Guess which approach is longer lasting?
(Feedback anyone?)
But, but, but... I know it's accurate cause I can always tell what sign someone is before they tell me.
Damn I wish I had mod points. Number five is damn hillarious. Especially the "ROWR" part. I can only picture someone like Danny DeVito reading all the above lines.
Wow. I like that ad for that new product "Internal Server Error". Good use of whitespace in the design. ;P
...in college who did his doctoral o this exact subject. He later went on to work for ABC television. His basic gist was that it's the porn industry that actually works out the practical logistics of any new medium. At the time he was talking about the porn industry building the VHS video industry. A lot of movie studios were reluctant to put movies on VHS since they feared it would destroy their industry. But the porno business had nothing to lose as they were relegated to booths and shady theaters. So... they put ALL of their movies out on VHS. All those people out there who would NEVER be caught dead in a porno movie house or booth suddenly had access in their own living rooms and [BAM!!!] a new empire was born. Too bad porno movies soundtracks are so bad, otherwise the porno industry would probably have the online music distribution down pat in a short time.
...depending on how invested you are in your parent's computing. :)
My parents had the luck of having me network their house before I moved out after college. So the Cat 5 went to every room. Originally my parents had two Windows 98 machines that I stuck behind a linux firewall which certainly made life pretty easy for them for a while. But was Windows got targetted more and more, my parents were getting fed up with the maintenance they had to do to keep their systems up. Finally, this year my Mom said, "We'd like to try Linux. We don't want to buy new PCs to run Windows XP, so can we try Linux"? Of course I took them up on the offer
The plan was that my Mom would get the Linux PC and my dad would keep his Windows box for now. That way if they wound up not liking Linux or not being able to use it, they'd still have access to one machine they were familiar with. But, I had a little surprise for them. I took my mom's machine
back to my place and found that it was a little too slow for RedHat 9. No matter, I had two Pentium II 233s in the basement that weren't being used at the moment. So, I took both of them and the iMac-wannabe cases I didn't need any more and threw together two new systems.
I installed RedHat 9, but left off the bundled versions of Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Xmms, and a few other apps. Then I worked on custom compiling the kernel to get smoother operation out of the boxes (including the pre-emptive kernel patch). The latest Samba went on for file sharing and interoperability with their Windows box. I also designed a few very professional looking icons for the OpenOffice.org suite, and "M" icons for Mozilla and Mozilla Mail (to mimic the "e" for Explorer). I layed out a custom Gnome Panel with all the possible buttons and drawers they would need. I installed the latest CVS W.I.N.E. and brought over a few of the Windows apps that they still wanted. I built the latest MPlayer for video and Xmms with MP3 support. Put a nice logout/shutdown button on the Gnome Panel at the far right and imported all the old Windows documents (Word, Excel, IE Favorites and some BMPs and GIFs). The simplest, but nicest (according to my dad) touch was some really nice desktop backgrounds of scenic shots from Australia that I took myself. To make things easier for them and myself, I also set them up with ssh connections to my server at my house that automatically log in with Public Key Authentication and set up tunnels for the x0vncserver and ssh. This makes remote support of their systems very easy. All they have to do is click on an icon when their dialup connection is up and I have access to their machines. They also have access to my private Jabber server and mail server over the tunnel as well.
I started on the project in late October and polished it through to X-Mas. My parents were only expecting one computer, but I brought both of them and boy were they happy. I told them that they could try them out for a few months and if it didn't work out, I had no problem helping them look for new Windows XP machines. I also told them that I coud provide "tech support" any time they needed it as long as I was near a computer. So far, I've only had a ew remote support sessions because the machines are easy enough for them to do most of what they need. After I got them set up with a Netgear TCP/IP print server, RedHat's printing setup mechanism got things going in less than 15 minutes. So my dad has been working with OpenOffice.org's Calc spreadsheet app and printing out what he needs. He told me, "This is just like Office"!
My birthday is coming up at th end of the week. I got a birthday card from my folks that they printed up using Mozilla on Linux to access a web based card designing app hosted by American Greetings (I think). So far it's ony a few months in, but my parents are happy. About the only problem they've had is the occasional IE only web site. They love the fast performance and stability of their new systems compared to their older
So are you saying they INTENDED to kill their patients and this software just did it more efficiently? ;P
So it's an MP3 player with an iPod skin? What's the problem? It's not like there are any Windows Pocket PC systems out there that actually have the REAL interface that the iPod does. And what about all the hardware connections that the iPod has? Hm... Sounds like a snow lews day to me. ;P
As far as mass mailers, I can see it now:
w or m.html
Hi! You've won "make big penis now"! Just follow the link below to retrieve your prize:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL-massmailing
Or...
CPAN(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide CPAN(3pm)
NAME
CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
SYNOPSIS
Interactive mode:
perl -MCPAN -e shell;
Batch mode:
use CPAN;
autobundle, clean, install, make, recompile, test
DESCRIPTION
The CPAN module is designed to automate the make and install of perl
modules and extensions. It includes some searching capabilities and
knows how to use Net::FTP or LWP (or lynx or an external ftp client) to
fetch the raw data from the net...
----------
Sorry, but it would be a lot harder than an e-mail with instructions to do a mass mailing Linux worm.
So I take it you "paid your $699 fee you cocksmoking teabagger"? ;) I mean you said you used the TM with permission... What else is there to assume other than you are a "$699 fee paying, cocksmoking, teabagger"? [Daffy Duck Sounds as I Bounce Away]
Hey! I'll bet a lot of Slashdotters are in their late twenties to mid-thirties. I wouldn't exactly consider that the younger generation. And I would also guess that most of us thirty somethings have far more money to spend on video games too. Finally, I'm betting that most of the 5-11PM gamers are thirtysomethings.
Apparently you've been proven wrong. Again. :P
That's why a lot of us are using SSH tunnels or VPNs with our own IM protocols, DNS and mail servers. There's a whole phantom internet out there and a lot of people don't even realize it.
.ssh/config file and point them to a Jabber client. It's worked well, and no one else has access to the Jabber server other than the people who I've allowed in. Same with e-mail. Sure, I still have to interact with the outside world, but most of my friends and family are pointed to my mail server and use SSH tunnels to communicate with me. They don't see it as an inconvenience because to them, they just double click the "Connect to the T4D Network" icon on their desktop and then use their mail/IM/web clients like they would any other time. When they're done, they just click the "X" in the upper right corner of the CMD window that has a nice friendly message in it that says, "Close this window to disconnect from the T4D network".
Personally, I've been using ssh and Jabber to IM with all my friends. The only thing that's required is that I give them a custom configured ssh client,
I can only imagine that this will become more commonplace as these technologies get easier to use. Tunnels and VPN are sure to be the next "big thing" once they are really simple enough to install. So far my installation experiences with people who want to access the T4D network have just been to email them a zip file and tell them where to put the extracted files. But a double click wizard would be nicer... Can't code in Windows though because I don't have the money to waste on a compiler.
...we get that. But I really want some of you to take a look at this guy's rant about Anime nerds. He's spot on. Sure, I've got my DVD of Akira, some old VHS tapes with Ghost in the Shell, Armitige, etc... I've enjoyed Totoro, Iria, and the like. I even took Japanese (long before I watched anime with any regularity) because I am into it. But, you wouldn't catch me anywhere talking about the philosophy behind an anime film and how it applies to the real world. I will never get into heated discussions about the balance of good and evil in a cartoon, or come to the defense of my favorite anime character (must admit that I don't have one) when someone else assails them for being a weak person. Get a life people! Oh... and the link I referred to above is hillarious. Check it out. Really.
You are correct sir. Business and money bore the crap out of me. To be honest, what the geeks should do is code a way to make MBAs obsolete. Automate the whole money making/money management/business workflow procedure so that we are managed by machines rather than people. Then make sure those machines are managed by ethical geeks. :)
Welcome to my Friends list. The point you bring up is not only accepted, but overlooked. I think a lot of people don't even perceive the inherent flaw in capitalism as abused by the U.S.
...Windows is becoming more Unix like but just using friendlier terms. I recently discovered in XP that the display manager and audio server in XP appear to operate in a very similar way to Gnome on XFree86 and esound. What led me to this discovery was that I started up a Cisco VPN client session and it hosed some of my network connections to my internal LAN. It also broke sound to where I couldn't listen to any media. When I disconnected from VPN, the sound came back. And if you think about it, the "Fast User Switching" feature in Windows XP is basically a nice GUI interface to switching between multiple display servers. Just like running multiple X servers each on a different virtual console and pressing Alt- to get to each user's desktop. Anyone think some of the improvements in the Windows GUI have anything in common with XFree86?
...I don't seewhat the big news is. I got one of these for $79 in November 2003. It's nice, but it's not the greatest. And it sucks for games... How is this news?
...this project would be a little better of a choice for VPN than FreeSWAN? I've been looking it over and it looks pretty cool. I still have to actually try it though.
My god! Is the U.S.A. Becoming the "B Ark"? ;P
Would authors ask young writers to turn away from libraries? What about videographers and television producers asking young aspirants to documentaries to turn away from PBS? Or maybe radio journalists asking young aspiring journalists with an interest in radio to turn away from public radio?
There should always be an alternative to the mainstream because the mainstream is only cooked up for the average knuckle dragging person. For people who don't fit into those nice little pigeon holes, there always should be something else. The author of this letter apparently doesn't understand that need. He is only being self serving which is probably the worst thing you CAN be in your short time on Earth.
Of course the idiotic masses are being swayed over to this way of thinking because there are fewer and fewer alternatives. Their minds are being poisoned by the incessant mental pollution that is the mainstream. And once they are sucked in, it's hard for them to get out because they are no longer equipped to fight submission. Sorry, but this guy needs a reality check and he needs to stop putting his nees first. Why are we even here if not to help each other?
I'll clarify my point al ittle further. I also dislike it when an actor poorly fakes an accent or dialect. If Mos Def can successfully fake a biritish accent and play the Ford character as it was meant to be played (a 70s british hipster), then it would be fine. But I doubt the makers of this new film want Ford to be a 70s british hispter. They want him to probably be an up to the minute 21st century AMERICAN hipster. Again, I wouldn't have aproblem if they played that the new Ford likes raves and has done some D.J.ing in the trance music world. That fits, because it's more Euro than American. However, if they want American audiences to relate (which is a big mistake),they are probably going to want to make him either a hip-hop guy or some kind of rocker (as the hero as opposed to the ridiculous character that Hotblack was). Either one being a poor choice.
I also want to point out that I never made any assumptions about Mos Def being black or white before posting my original comment. I was unaware of his race until enough people bitched about it here. It doesn't matter to me if he was white or not, if he is a modern hip-hop artist, it's unlikely that he has much to bring to HHGTTG.
Maybe this will finally be a way to put an end to lame excuses and loopholes for getting out of traffic violations.