How am I redundant when the other two posts in this thread (AFTER MINE) say the same thing? Redundant only applies when something's already been stated!
You could just be too lazy to do HTML, or don't know enough to make it look better than the classic black on white, with blue links, and Times New Roman (or equivalent) of HOWTOs everywhere... (I do, it's just I'm too damn lazy, and I'd rather have something like FrontPage do the layout for me - that's why I'm using FrontPage and not some OSS app for my site)
Especially when one has become known by their handle... Of course, it's bad when you only use it for two reasons:
* Because you're too lazy to come up with something better * Because if it says that the username is already registered, you know it's you who did it;-)
I just use white vs. black hat instead of hacker vs. cracker... BTW, the international sign of a white hat (aka hacker) should be... a white hat (maybe the redhat logo, except with a white hat).
The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term `hacker', most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.
There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term `hacker'. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music -- actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers recognize these kindred spirits elsewhere and may call them "hackers" too -- and some claim that the hacker nature is really independent of the particular medium the hacker works in. But in the rest of this document we will focus on the skills and attitudes of software hackers, and the traditions of the shared culture that originated the term `hacker'.
There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people `crackers' and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word `hacker' to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers no end.
The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.
If you want to be a hacker, keep reading. If you want to be a cracker, go read the alt.2600 newsgroup and get ready to do five to ten in the slammer after finding out you aren't as smart as you think you are. And that's all I'm going to say about crackers.
Does that help at all? If it's ESR's logo, and he wants it applied to hackers, here's his definition of a hacker...
You DO realize that Active Desktop is why your computer isn't running quickly (unless KDE or GNOME have some features I haven't heard of before...), don't you?
Does it mean you've got a horrid IQ if you're illiterate? Not necessarily. You could be EXTREMELY smart, just unable to read or write because of a lack of training, for example. Writing is just a communication tool that that person might not be able to use well. Keep in mind, most people on Slashdot are above the median IQ. Remember the NT4 DHCP fiasco (if you don't remember, a DHCP related component (possibly the server) was mis-labeled as "Dynamic Hose Configuration Protocol" by the programmer, and he thought that the way to spell the word they were telling him to type (Host) was Hose.) This person could be foreign (no signs of Engrish, though), and just doesn't have a strong command of English, yet.
Yes, I know I'm feeding a troll, but I just had to say this.
No. Buy a laser. If you care about longevity longer than a couple years, and decent quality (OK, so the second part CAN be acheived by cheap inks, but only the ones that are barely cheaper), cheap ink.
They're already doing that... Many high-low to low-mid-range PCs now come with LCDs. Just look at the major electronics store's ads in August or September (LCDs for the dorms, of course...) I haven't seen printers be bundled NEARLY as much. I remember my previous box was complete bottom of the fucking line, and the bundle was:
HP Pavilion 6535 with PiXiE/RIC 17" Monitor: $899 (after rebates) Same PC with HP M70 17" Monitor: $949
Which made more sense? (BTW, the PiXiE monitor wasn't bad, but the second one I got appears to have fried the (onboard) video card, 4 years later! I guess it's VNC from here on out...
BTW, if you like trolls, go here, scroll down to the "Reason Modifier" section, and set troll to +1 (it'll put it to 0, which is what I browse at - the best way to do it if you're not a mod and don't want ots or trolls - of course, then it'll only block ot.). I'm not much for trolls, but I do agree with the PoorPost Troll on some ideas for Slashdot's mod system.
My school's old LaserJet 4 series that they got almost 10 years ago was their only printer for the longest time, and it held up NICELY. They only used two carts before it gave up the ghost about a month ago (paper feed system lost it's magic smoke).
Better yet, STOP TRYING TO GO TO HIS SITE! He already needs a new server, after we melted this one. Maybe he could try a Mac G5, for a change. Oh, wait, he doesn't work at MS anymore...
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How am I redundant when the other two posts in this thread (AFTER MINE) say the same thing? Redundant only applies when something's already been stated!
It's Utah - try a Mormon church's bells, maybe?
For more information, please visit http://www.tldp.org and read the LDP FAQ." (URL and LDP FAQ were links)
Or, if they'd read five lines above your post, they'd have seen that.
With web management. So, the editor may be Moz Composer, but some new stuff is on it.
You could just be too lazy to do HTML, or don't know enough to make it look better than the classic black on white, with blue links, and Times New Roman (or equivalent) of HOWTOs everywhere... (I do, it's just I'm too damn lazy, and I'd rather have something like FrontPage do the layout for me - that's why I'm using FrontPage and not some OSS app for my site)
Especially when one has become known by their handle... Of course, it's bad when you only use it for two reasons:
;-)
* Because you're too lazy to come up with something better
* Because if it says that the username is already registered, you know it's you who did it
I just use white vs. black hat instead of hacker vs. cracker... BTW, the international sign of a white hat (aka hacker) should be... a white hat (maybe the redhat logo, except with a white hat).
Since it's a mathematical pattern, it's free anyway (at least in the US - maybe not over in the EU).
Hmm... that could work, seeing as that symbol is most often on power buttons of computer equipment than anything else (most other stuff uses I / O)...
Amatuer Radio enthusiasts have logos, though.
Does that help at all? If it's ESR's logo, and he wants it applied to hackers, here's his definition of a hacker...
Umm... it's a straight Goatse link that ANNOUNCES that it's a Goatse link. So, just keep saying that you "fell for it."
You DO realize that Active Desktop is why your computer isn't running quickly (unless KDE or GNOME have some features I haven't heard of before...), don't you?
This is what she's using.
Since ESR decided on it, it's white-hats. (Read "How to Become A Hacker" - he HATES crackers being called hackers.
Does it mean you've got a horrid IQ if you're illiterate? Not necessarily. You could be EXTREMELY smart, just unable to read or write because of a lack of training, for example. Writing is just a communication tool that that person might not be able to use well. Keep in mind, most people on Slashdot are above the median IQ. Remember the NT4 DHCP fiasco (if you don't remember, a DHCP related component (possibly the server) was mis-labeled as "Dynamic Hose Configuration Protocol" by the programmer, and he thought that the way to spell the word they were telling him to type (Host) was Hose.) This person could be foreign (no signs of Engrish, though), and just doesn't have a strong command of English, yet.
Yes, I know I'm feeding a troll, but I just had to say this.
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No. Buy a laser. If you care about longevity longer than a couple years, and decent quality (OK, so the second part CAN be acheived by cheap inks, but only the ones that are barely cheaper), cheap ink .
Imaging, too. Printers & accessories don't count for the whole pie. There are also digicams and scanners. I bet they make some on their paper, too...
They're already doing that... Many high-low to low-mid-range PCs now come with LCDs. Just look at the major electronics store's ads in August or September (LCDs for the dorms, of course...) I haven't seen printers be bundled NEARLY as much. I remember my previous box was complete bottom of the fucking line, and the bundle was:
HP Pavilion 6535 with PiXiE/RIC 17" Monitor: $899 (after rebates)
Same PC with HP M70 17" Monitor: $949
Which made more sense? (BTW, the PiXiE monitor wasn't bad, but the second one I got appears to have fried the (onboard) video card, 4 years later! I guess it's VNC from here on out...
BTW, if you like trolls, go here, scroll down to the "Reason Modifier" section, and set troll to +1 (it'll put it to 0, which is what I browse at - the best way to do it if you're not a mod and don't want ots or trolls - of course, then it'll only block ot.). I'm not much for trolls, but I do agree with the PoorPost Troll on some ideas for Slashdot's mod system.
My school's old LaserJet 4 series that they got almost 10 years ago was their only printer for the longest time, and it held up NICELY. They only used two carts before it gave up the ghost about a month ago (paper feed system lost it's magic smoke).
Of course, if he worked at MSCopy, it could have been FOR MSCOPY! After all, Macs are supposed to be great for DTP...
Better yet, STOP TRYING TO GO TO HIS SITE! He already needs a new server, after we melted this one. Maybe he could try a Mac G5, for a change. Oh, wait, he doesn't work at MS anymore...
He just thought it was kinda funny, and it appeared that he was primarily making fun of the shipping company for the way the G5s were loaded.
He worked in MSCopy, so chances are that the G5s are for publishing.