Unfortunately, we'll only know for sure in 10 or 20 years when everyone who's unscrupulous enough to try spamming has done so.
<humor type="bitter" truth="halfway" color="off">
Trouble is, even unscrupulous spammers have children, and will pass on their unscrupulous
spamming ethics onto their kids. We've all seen the Public Service Announcements on Television and on billboards by the Freeway: 'Parents who use Spam have Children who use Spam'.
The real solution to Spam? Use the same treatment as we apply to the African Cane Toads and the Silicon Valley Agressive Driver : Sterilization.
Keep these people from breeding! Unlike African Cane Toads, few of these Spammers are able to find a mate, in part due to their unscrupulous ethics, so it should be easy to track down the remaining breeding spammers.
</humor>
How can you include an article on strange Canned food that doesn't include my all time favorite (I have a can sitting atop my monitor): PORK BRAINS in Milk Gravy.
Yes, this little 5.5 oz can has a whopping 3500 calories, and over 1000% (Yes, one THOUSAND) of your RDA intake of cholesterol.
The recipe on the back? Pork Brains and Scrambled Eggs. At least Eggs have alot of the 'good' cholesterol, otherwise you'd have a heart attack halfway through your second can! Yum!
I seriously doubt that AT&T's backup network is as large or redundant as the Excite@HOME backbone, so if the deal falls through and the ATT@HOME customers all switch over to the backup network, it will probably be slower and spottier then the Excite backbone (But heck, what can I expect from $19.95 mo & free installation.
Can't wait for that call in the middle of the night from AT&T "Is this Mr. Lasiewski? Yes sir, this is Agent Mohoney from AT&T. I regret to inform you that your Cable Service was killed this morning."
Roxanne may have come off as a bitch, but Wil came off as a obnoxious prima-donna (And there is a problem with prima-donnas in the geek world).
Wil was playing a joke on Roxanne and it backfired on him. You can tell he felt guilty by the way he backed off the obnoxious act in later rounds and in his exit review.
While we all know he was joking, his timing and maturity was way off. Unfortunately, his behavior just reinforced some very negative geek sterotypes: obnoxious, immature, rude to women.
Did the marketing people take over the Kernel release process?
Why the rush between the pre9 and final versions? Why the lack of QA? Are the kernel developers rushing to meet a deadline or something?
Alot of people complain that Open Source projects develop too slowly, and cite the slow pace of Mozilla and Gnome as an example.
Pro-OSS folks say "That's a BENEFIT to the OSS model, we don't rush things through the door before they are ready, therefore there are less bugs in our released products.
But here we are, with a product that was rush, and that was released with a serious bug.
Just upgraded to 0.96, and now I see that Slashdot articles with large number of responses crash mozila (I already sent in reports with that crash feedback thingy). This is Win98 , celeron 366 with 512M of ram.
Only seems to happen on articles with a large number of responses (I'm a moderator and I'm trying to browse at -1 , but I can't).
This inturn makes it compatable and operable between the offical standard.
Wow, that's a nice internship! When I was an intern, I had to scan newspapers and look for advertisements for hair replacement therapies... but I made $7.50 an hour!
Apparently MS is only blocking OS's that have IE available (Win32 / MacOS)...
I'm running Mozilla on Solaris, and the page gives me the warning ("Gives me the finger", is more like it).
Note that this only applies to WWW.msn.com. Their Channel pages, such as womencentral.msn.com display just fine. Further proof that MSN's claim is bullshit.
Not a big problem, I don't really need MSN anyways, and apparently MSN advertisers don't really need my business.
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At last, the destructive./ effect extends beyond websites, and now extends into your operating system!
Hemos is just trying to make up for the fact that Linux users have less viruses. By asking us to uninstall the Ximian packages and removing certain libraries, he's trying to make our Linux Systems more Windows-like.
Sun's official 'unsupported Solaris Gnome 1.4' package is old, unoptimized and is very slow and buggy. It's a hideous example of what Gnome can be.
OTOH, I run Ximian Gnome on my Solaris Ultra 5 (Solaris 8) workstation (slow processor, lots of RAM). Ximian Gnome is great! For most applications, Ximian Gnome is *faster* then CDE, and it's suite of utilities is much more useful then the kruft that comes with the generic Solaris workstation install. I work in a Solaris/Windows office, and often need apps like Gnumeric/Abiword or Star Office.
Gnome on my office-workstation is not as fast as on my cheap home computer (Celeron 366, 128 Mb ram, RH 7.1), but it is perfectly usable.
Most of the slowness seems to stem from the OpenWin server + Video Card itself (slow drawing of boxes, lines, etc). Certain apps like XMMS and Mozilla are slow (but those aren't Gnome apps). Nautilus is crappy slow on Solaris, so i turned it off and use GMC.
Prove it yourself. The GPL is designed for situations like this. The KDE source code is available for your eyes. Compare the KDE source code against the RedHat KDE source code.
You may not be a programmer (I'm not), but I'm sure you can do the basics like compare checksum sizes, look at the headers of some files, diff a couple of different files.
To be honest, your crashing problem might be due to bad drivers for your videocard, or some other hardware problem (got enough memory?)
Slashdot Mirror
You need to read between the lines.
What Hemos & Taco are really saying is that they did not get a quiet computer for Christmas, again.
./ fans, you missed your chance!
Hey man, this guy *is* paying respect.
The birthday boy (Santa Claus) is right there, in *the helicopter*, you can't get much more respectful then that!
Unfortunately, we'll only know for sure in 10 or 20 years when everyone who's unscrupulous enough to try spamming has done so.
<humor type="bitter" truth="halfway" color="off">
Trouble is, even unscrupulous spammers have children, and will pass on their unscrupulous
spamming ethics onto their kids. We've all seen the Public Service Announcements on Television and on billboards by the Freeway: 'Parents who use Spam have Children who use Spam'.
The real solution to Spam? Use the same treatment as we apply to the African Cane Toads and the Silicon Valley Agressive Driver : Sterilization.
Keep these people from breeding! Unlike African Cane Toads, few of these Spammers are able to find a mate, in part due to their unscrupulous ethics, so it should be easy to track down the remaining breeding spammers.
</humor>
No man, no! John Lindh is a Visual Basic programmer in Sweeden.
j oh n.lindh%40interit.se+
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=author:
2 years ago, I bought a string (150 lights) from Real Goods for $20.
Not very cheap, but they still work 2 years later, and it satisfied my passion for low-power blinky things.
How can you include an article on strange Canned food that doesn't include my all time favorite (I have a can sitting atop my monitor): PORK BRAINS in Milk Gravy.
Yes, this little 5.5 oz can has a whopping 3500 calories, and over 1000% (Yes, one THOUSAND) of your RDA intake of cholesterol.
The recipe on the back? Pork Brains and Scrambled Eggs. At least Eggs have alot of the 'good' cholesterol, otherwise you'd have a heart attack halfway through your second can! Yum!
Thawte is based in South Africa (or was, before VeriSign bought Thawte), but it still seems like a wierd thing to post.
Since most people pay automatically via their credit card , many people may forget to demand the refund...
I got that same letter via postal mail.
I seriously doubt that AT&T's backup network is as large or redundant as the Excite@HOME backbone, so if the deal falls through and the ATT@HOME customers all switch over to the backup network, it will probably be slower and spottier then the Excite backbone (But heck, what can I expect from $19.95 mo & free installation.
Can't wait for that call in the middle of the night from AT&T "Is this Mr. Lasiewski? Yes sir, this is Agent Mohoney from AT&T. I regret to inform you that your Cable Service was killed this morning."
Roxanne may have come off as a bitch, but Wil came off as a obnoxious prima-donna (And there is a problem with prima-donnas in the geek world).
Wil was playing a joke on Roxanne and it backfired on him. You can tell he felt guilty by the way he backed off the obnoxious act in later rounds and in his exit review.
While we all know he was joking, his timing and maturity was way off. Unfortunately, his behavior just reinforced some very negative geek sterotypes: obnoxious, immature, rude to women.
Did the marketing people take over the Kernel release process?
Why the rush between the pre9 and final versions? Why the lack of QA? Are the kernel developers rushing to meet a deadline or something?
Alot of people complain that Open Source projects develop too slowly, and cite the slow pace of Mozilla and Gnome as an example.
Pro-OSS folks say "That's a BENEFIT to the OSS model, we don't rush things through the door before they are ready, therefore there are less bugs in our released products.
But here we are, with a product that was rush, and that was released with a serious bug.
Yes, and it worked fine in a clean profile, and if I view the pages anonymously in the new clean profile, it works fine.
But when I log into slashdot, and view the page, it craps out (this is still on a clean profile).
I'm a moderator, so i have one of those 'score' dropdown boxes by every single post. Hundreds of posts = hundreds of dropdown boxes.
I used up that one last moderator point, the dropdown boxes no longer appear; and guess what, the page no longer crashes my browser. Works just dandy.
Off to file a bug...
Just upgraded to 0.96, and now I see that Slashdot articles with large number of responses crash mozila (I already sent in reports with that crash feedback thingy). This is Win98 , celeron 366 with 512M of ram.
Only seems to happen on articles with a large number of responses (I'm a moderator and I'm trying to browse at -1 , but I can't).
Constantly crashes on Geek Gift Ideas 2001 and Microsoft Would Settle For The Children
I just uninstalled and reinstalled mozilla, and the crashes still happen.
This inturn makes it compatable and operable between the offical standard.
Wow, that's a nice internship! When I was an intern, I had to scan newspapers and look for advertisements for hair replacement therapies... but I made $7.50 an hour!
No standards body for me!
the size of a juggernaut
Is that an African or a European juggernaut?
How big is a juggernaut anyways? Is it bigger or smaller then a cosmonaut? How about an astronaut?
This
...
picture shows Col. Kittinger jumping out of the gondola. This has to be one of the most incredible pictures ever taken...
here's some more
If VA goes out of business, does this meant that slashdot will actually deserve that .org in their domain name (nonprofit status).
You can kiss your freedoms goodbye... but be careful, because THEY might see you.
Apparently MS is only blocking OS's that have IE available (Win32 / MacOS)...
I'm running Mozilla on Solaris, and the page gives me the warning ("Gives me the finger", is more like it).
Note that this only applies to WWW.msn.com. Their Channel pages, such as womencentral.msn.com display just fine. Further proof that MSN's claim is bullshit.
Not a big problem, I don't really need MSN anyways, and apparently MSN advertisers don't really need my business.
At last, the destructive ./ effect extends beyond websites, and now extends into your operating system!
/humor )
Hemos is just trying to make up for the fact that Linux users have less viruses. By asking us to uninstall the Ximian packages and removing certain libraries, he's trying to make our Linux Systems more Windows-like.
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That's a good point.
Gnome (especially with Nautilus, Sawfish and some of the fancier options) doesn't run very well on an old PC either.
I wonder how Gnome+Blackbox runs.
Sun's official 'unsupported Solaris Gnome 1.4' package is old, unoptimized and is very slow and buggy. It's a hideous example of what Gnome can be.
OTOH, I run Ximian Gnome on my Solaris Ultra 5 (Solaris 8) workstation (slow processor, lots of RAM). Ximian Gnome is great! For most applications, Ximian Gnome is *faster* then CDE, and it's suite of utilities is much more useful then the kruft that comes with the generic Solaris workstation install. I work in a Solaris/Windows office, and often need apps like Gnumeric/Abiword or Star Office.
Gnome on my office-workstation is not as fast as on my cheap home computer (Celeron 366, 128 Mb ram, RH 7.1), but it is perfectly usable.
Most of the slowness seems to stem from the OpenWin server + Video Card itself (slow drawing of boxes, lines, etc). Certain apps like XMMS and Mozilla are slow (but those aren't Gnome apps). Nautilus is crappy slow on Solaris, so i turned it off and use GMC.
Prove it yourself. The GPL is designed for situations like this. The KDE source code is available for your eyes. Compare the KDE source code against the RedHat KDE source code.
You may not be a programmer (I'm not), but I'm sure you can do the basics like compare checksum sizes, look at the headers of some files, diff a couple of different files.
To be honest, your crashing problem might be due to bad drivers for your videocard, or some other hardware problem (got enough memory?)
No no no.
Your friendly neighborhood FBI/CIA/NSA/whoever agent is a very busy person, and can't read *all* email that comes his/her way.
Instead, your email was scanned by your friendly neighborhood FBI/CIA/NSA/whoever agent's 18-year old INTERN.
No, my bad = my fault.
Instead of saying 'my bad idea' or 'my bad driving' or 'my bad foo', you just remove the subject and say 'my bad'.
It's a wierd young kids phrase.