In other news, a new botnet was discovered. It consists of close to a million computers, all of them running Red Hat Fedora.
The new botnet for Linux is seen as proof that Linux is threatening the monopoly of Windows in more than one area.
Best line in the video:
"How are you going to use that again?!?!?!"
Doesn't matter how often I see the clip, it's hilarious. The truck backing up for 2 miles ("You're alright... you're alright..."), the fact that the bunker is built in the middle of a minefield - and the mines are semi-detected by a metal detector (only working to a depth of 3 inches).... Classic.
Thanks for making my Monday morning.
HA! I was waiting for someone to bring up FidoNet...
Yeah, there are several examples of this. Echomail adds/drops is one example. Another one is the FTPmail program that was included in TBBS: send me file xyz through mail.
If I remember correctly, even the built-in editors read content and made some comment (type in three exclamation marks in a row and you switched to FLAME mode).
Ah the good old days.:)
I was waiting for someone to mention noscript...
A lot of the ads are using javascript to ask the ad server to serve them an add, so that is automatically blocked.
Flash I think is blocked by noscript as well, you have to allow the site to open it. Also, the whyfirefoxisblocked website uses a sitemeter.... too bad I didn't trust them enough to let their server run javascript...:)
The EULA, is that that long document that I see that if I select "I don't accept" I can't install the program that I just bought, so I'm conditioned to basically accept any EULA that is presented to me?
Wow, I wonder if anyone ever reads any of those EULA's (except Reseller News and PC Pro, and, perhaps, Eric Raymond...:)
Apparently you don't know much about how land measurements, street numbers, and postal addresses revolve around imperial units. These would be extremely difficult to convert. In fact, a full conversion to something sensible in the metric system would require every street in the US to be ripped up and put back down someplace else, and every building to get a new address. I personally like knowing that it's exactly a mile from 240th to 256th street.
So, you like knowing that 16 blocks is a mile? Wow. Interestingly enough, 1.6 kilometers is a mile, so each block is 100 meters long apparently.
Very hard to do that kind of calculation isn't it...
There are overlapping comments on Slashdot all the time. Sometimes it's hard to see what article a comment actually belongs to. And sometimes comments seem to attach them to each and every article. The worst offenders are the "In Russia...", "1. xxx, 2. ???, 3. Profit!", "All your base...", and "You must be new here." comments...
Or were you talking about the actual rendering engine...?
Hey, that's great! He can even pretend to do the whole "Minority Report" thing, where he moves his hands in front of the screen, and stuff starts happening! Grandma will not only think he's a genius, but also possesses some awesome psychic powers!
Of course, there's always the risk that he'll get burned at the stake for being "possessed"...
Actually that is a perfect example as to why Windows would suck as a server platform.
Who the hell cares about a reboot? SysAdmins do. If you have a 24x7 system, OS Uptime becomes much more important. If I can restart Apache in 10 seconds, that is much better than having to reboot the whole machine, meaning several minutes of downtime.
I'm glad all the Viagra advertisements you've received have worked, but some people actually run business-critical machines.
I agree. It's better to have it on the Slashdot front page first, and then on the New York Times'...
Or were you trying to make a comparison? With "than"? Wasn't that what started this whole thread...?
The first time this came to my attention was when the cops tried to raid such a house. It was part of a complex of row houses and the cops ended up burning down the whole block (by accident) trying to arrest the inhabitants.
They accidentally burned down a whole block of houses? What are these, the Keystone Cops???
No, it means Rob Enderle is a fucking moron. That's what his columns always mean.
Vroom vroom, Rob. Fire up your stupid Ferrari laptop and go from zero to troll in 3.4 seconds.
Hear, hear. After actually reading TFA my mouth kinda dropped open. Judging from the description in the Slashdot post this was supposed to be "a good thing". The Enderle by-line made me suspicious. And rightly so: a misguided article claiming that Linux has done all these bad things, and should be feared!
I definitely liked the Maureen O'Gara thing: no mention whatsoever that the staff of LinuxWorld got fed up with O'Gara's half-ass researched articles, etc., no, instead, "In a coordinated combination of attacks which included a broad DOS attack on Sys-Con and an e-mail attack on Sys-Con's advertisers, Linux effectively made good on a threat that is beyond even Microsoft's reach..."
Awsome. We are to be feared. More power to us. But not with articles that describe us as the next bad thing....
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In other news, a new botnet was discovered. It consists of close to a million computers, all of them running Red Hat Fedora.
The new botnet for Linux is seen as proof that Linux is threatening the monopoly of Windows in more than one area.
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Best line in the video: "How are you going to use that again?!?!?!"
Doesn't matter how often I see the clip, it's hilarious. The truck backing up for 2 miles ("You're alright... you're alright..."), the fact that the bunker is built in the middle of a minefield - and the mines are semi-detected by a metal detector (only working to a depth of 3 inches).... Classic. Thanks for making my Monday morning.
HA! I was waiting for someone to bring up FidoNet... Yeah, there are several examples of this. Echomail adds/drops is one example. Another one is the FTPmail program that was included in TBBS: send me file xyz through mail. If I remember correctly, even the built-in editors read content and made some comment (type in three exclamation marks in a row and you switched to FLAME mode). Ah the good old days. :)
I was waiting for someone to mention noscript... A lot of the ads are using javascript to ask the ad server to serve them an add, so that is automatically blocked. Flash I think is blocked by noscript as well, you have to allow the site to open it. Also, the whyfirefoxisblocked website uses a sitemeter.... too bad I didn't trust them enough to let their server run javascript... :)
The EULA, is that that long document that I see that if I select "I don't accept" I can't install the program that I just bought, so I'm conditioned to basically accept any EULA that is presented to me? Wow, I wonder if anyone ever reads any of those EULA's (except Reseller News and PC Pro, and, perhaps, Eric Raymond... :)
Very hard to do that kind of calculation isn't it...
Hmm. Good point. Would that then be a memory... a 'memoire'...? :)
I think you meant to link him to this page: Friendly search for 'explorer+view+source+notepad+change'....
Or were you talking about the actual rendering engine...?
Of course, there's always the risk that he'll get burned at the stake for being "possessed"...
Who the hell cares about a reboot? SysAdmins do. If you have a 24x7 system, OS Uptime becomes much more important. If I can restart Apache in 10 seconds, that is much better than having to reboot the whole machine, meaning several minutes of downtime.
I'm glad all the Viagra advertisements you've received have worked, but some people actually run business-critical machines.
Have a nice day.
How about Escargodzilla?
I agree. It's better to have it on the Slashdot front page first, and then on the New York Times'... Or were you trying to make a comparison? With "than"? Wasn't that what started this whole thread...?
Reminds me more of Buttle vs. Tuttle.... with disastrous consequences...:)
You must have watched a lot of Formula 1 racing...:)
"Clams have Anti-Virus software!!!!"
Where's the clue club when you need it...
You read the article? Hmm, you must be new here...
I definitely liked the Maureen O'Gara thing: no mention whatsoever that the staff of LinuxWorld got fed up with O'Gara's half-ass researched articles, etc., no, instead, "In a coordinated combination of attacks which included a broad DOS attack on Sys-Con and an e-mail attack on Sys-Con's advertisers, Linux effectively made good on a threat that is beyond even Microsoft's reach..."
Awsome. We are to be feared. More power to us. But not with articles that describe us as the next bad thing....
Nope, gotta wait for the director's cut on that one...
I hope it does grammar checking too.