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Yucky doo, what a lousy movie. I just came back from its opening at Silver City in Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario, Canada:P) and it was not a good movie.
The movie starts off well, but slowly and steadily deteriorates until the final blow - the alien. Anyone who sees it will immediately understand what I mean.
Save yourself 122 minutes and watch something better.
Please resist using the canadia.geecs.org mirror unless you are on a reallly slow modem connection:) - that's my computer and its not exactly ready to handle a slashdot load:P (not to mention my resnet admins will get pissy:))
I'm setting a low limit on apache, so my appologies if you have trouble connecting.
I fear -- I am afraid that as linux approaches critical mass and the acceptance as a desktop system, the quality of the software and the problem of such things as virii will increase. Viruses come from not auditing programmes before installing them, and installing from untrusted sources. Having too big a user base out there, instead of remaining an alternative operating system threatens the very stability that makes linux what it is. I want linux to beat out Windows, because nothing frustrates me more then trying to fix a windows system, but if Linux goes mainstream, will it defeat windows, or merely replace it? Let us not go blindly forward, we have a lot of obstacles to avoid.
I was under the impression that Ebay, along with Amazon, and other such huge internet based companies were not making money. How can they afford to buy another company for 1.6 Billion?
The FBI programme brought down my system and it is currently fscking. At last check it was using over 80M of RAM. In a few minutes I'll see the strace log to see if it tells me anything. I do not recommend any one else runs this programme.
End alert. #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
I ran the fbi prog and sigQUITted it after less then a minute. It dumped a core file that would put netscape to shame. -rw------- 1 root root 58589184 Feb 10 17:07 core
I'm currently straceing it, and if I find anything interesting, I'll post it here. #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
Or the reference to slashdot on the first line. It looks to me like this article was very much a lets-see-how-long-it-takes-to-get-slashdotted article.
just my $0.02 (add GST if in Canada) #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
it was merely a joke intended to make fun of ourselves as a community. I was always under the impression that it was the sign of a healthy community when it could make fun of itself:) #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
"Can't be Netscape. The last thing you want is for your tech support people to be getting calls from customsers 'cause their PDA keeps on crashing (or, at least, appears to)."
Heh... I can see it now...
"Hello tech support?...yes...yes...my problem is that every time i run netscape when i drive, i get these bus errors...yes...yes, that's right bus errors. It makes me nervous to drive in the city....what?...yes...what do you mean use w3m?... it doesn't have a bus?... alright...ok...thank you. [click]" #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
pine on the road! lynx in the forest! mpg123 in the mineshaft! all with libncurses5-dev! the world can get no better!:)
Never before have we been able to 'make zImage' on the back of our hands. never before have we had travelling ssh daemons!
or is it linux based public display of affection... well yeah, i always publically display my affection for linux:) #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
Free registration required... why can't NYT get an Anonymous Coward account kind of thing... make the NYT site run off slash 0.9.2...
Anyhow, from what I gather in the header, it looks kind of cool. Considering such companies only spend about US$600 on each car they advertise they are putting a fair investment into the computers.:)
I don't know if this is good or bad though, yes give everyone computers, but boy will you[Ford] ever have headaches if problems start arising with them. 350,000 computers takes more then a 10 guy tech-support to operate. #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
Always one for cynicism, I think this whole thing with the RIAA and the MPAA and the DeCSS is just going to show how far out of whack US capitalism has gone.
Patents, Copyrights, etc. are[were] designed to protect people, not profits. It used to be a crime to profiteer in the US, now its a crime to prevent the rich from getting richer. I feel very strongly that its time for the US to go back to revolution and start clean. Same applies to most western democracies.
I can't remember who said it (I'm no historian), but one of the American 'fathers' cautionned that the US needed a civil war or societal restructuring of some sort every generation to ensure a truly democratic nation. #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
You may or may not remember this.. but I think this can be relevant if you think of web pages as faxes:)
GUIDE TO SAFE FAX
Q: Do I have to be married to have safe fax? A: Although married people fax quite often, there are many single people who fax complete strangers every day.
Q: My parents say they never had fax when they were young and were only allowed to write memos to eachother until they were twenty-one. How old do you think someone should be before they can fax? A: Faxing can be performed at any age, once you learn the correct procedure.
Q: If I fax something to myself, will I go blind? A: Certainly not, as far as we can see.
Q: There is a place on our street where you can go and pay to fax. Is this legal? A: Yes, many people have no other outlet for their fax drives and must pay a "professional" when their need to fax becomes too great.
Q: Should a cover always be used for faxing? A: Unless you are really sure of the one you are faxing, a cover should always be used to insure safe fax.
Q: What happens when I incorrectly do the procedure and I fax prematurely? A: Dan't panic! Many people prematurely fax when they haven't faxed in a long time. Just start over, most people won't mind if you try again.
Q: I have a personal and a business fax. Can transmissions become mixed up? A: Being bi-faxual can be confusing, but as long as you use a cover with each one, you won't transmit anything you're not supposed to.canadia:~#
meant to be taken with an ocean of salt, of course.:)
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
I wrote the word game of boggle in batch (6500 lines), and a batch script that randomly replied to questions. Random number generation in Batch was about 200 lines.:)
Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote a calendar for a PS/2 in batch as we have a macintosh functioning as a clock, and a formerly abandonned ps/2 on the windowsill in our club office:)... the calendar: 2800 lines... I've written three patches for it since, and its now over 5000 lines long.
I even wrote a TSR manager in batch which allowed me, to the best of the programme's abilities, to load and unload TSRs, complete with a menu.:)
All you need? getkey.com: B4 00 CD 16 B4 4C CD 21 (ok ok so i have too much free time...had.....have) #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
He doesn't really say the PC market will fade, but more that the wireless market will increase. This is true. As wireless high-speed communications increase in availability they will increase in popularity, because, face it, people will want such toys. PCs will hold on for some time yet because of things like full keyboards, mice and large monitors. Newer people from the older generation trying to learn computers will tend not toward wireless high-speed gizmos, but more toward the PC desktop market as a [relatively] easy to use method of computing. Personally, I don't think something like the palm-top with an airlan type connection would suit me, as I can not see taking a 3-6 inch monitor seriously... imagine slashdot on one of those? #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
Why not pass legislation that forces all vehicles to report their velocity and direction every n ticks of an onboard clock to a control tower? Then noone would know who what when where or why....well maybe where who when what but not why...
For privacy: any car entering an area is assigned a call sign, and when it exits that broadcast area its ID is handed-off to a new car coming in... *shrug* would make more sense then cell phones. #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
Hey wait.. wasn't linux invented in a social-democracy?
And yes I -would- like some Marx with that. I'm tired of American Capitalist Fascism and greed. Profit, by its very nature, means taking more then you give back to the community. In order for you to profit, you have to take more then what you sold was worth, and by marketing, brainwash people into thinking what garbage you have to offer is a life necessity.
A utopia, by definition, is an unatainable goal.
Socialism would work if there was no capitalism constantly trying to break into the socialist markets. Capitalism results in animosity and ecological destruction. Just the world I want to live in. #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
I don't think anything mathematical or intellectual can[except legally] or should be patentable. I think a great problem with our society is how it is so individualist that if anyone's right to have independant thought is midly infringed upon they can screw several other people out of that same right. An ideal society (a utopia perhaps) would have everyone -pool- any and all ideas they had for peer review and total acceptance and widespread usage. To loosely quote someone's sig (from a while ago?), if you horde it, it just smells bad.
The patent system is generally abused nowdays and no attention is payed to anything but legalese. IIRC someone several years ago tried to patent the binary counting system and binary math. This should not be.
The patent office should issue Invention-credit certificates or something that says "Look it, I invented this. See give me credit. If you find it useful, I'd like to put food on my plate." - kind of like the old shareware lisence. #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
Slashdot, to me, has the smell of something that has been closed for a long time. It last relieved it self at 0.4. Man.. I hope the slashbladder can hold up....
kernel.org: smells like corn microsoft.com: to small to see, only smell. (Same shit, different flavour.) andover.net: bendover andover andover again... gnu.org: smells like a small animal freebsd.org: smells like burning flesh debian.org: the refreshing smell of purity ebay.com: all you can buy of everything you don't need....smells of capitalism freshmeat.net: say no more #include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1); }return(0);}
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Don't count on it.
We'll see what comes out of this when we have more info.
You must be from Engineering :P
:)
down with thornborough!!
Yucky doo, what a lousy movie. I just came back from its opening at Silver City in Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario, Canada :P) and it was not a good movie.
The movie starts off well, but slowly and steadily deteriorates until the final blow - the alien. Anyone who sees it will immediately understand what I mean.
Save yourself 122 minutes and watch something better.
canadia.geecs.org is down 50 connections times 70 megabytes at any given time was too much. sorry!
Please resist using the canadia.geecs.org mirror unless you are on a reallly slow modem connection :) - that's my computer and its not exactly ready to handle a slashdot load :P (not to mention my resnet admins will get pissy :))
I'm setting a low limit on apache, so my appologies if you have trouble connecting.
thanks!
I fear --
I am afraid that as linux approaches critical mass and the acceptance as a desktop system, the quality of the software and the problem of such things as virii will increase. Viruses come from not auditing programmes before installing them, and installing from untrusted sources. Having too big a user base out there, instead of remaining an alternative operating system threatens the very stability that makes linux what it is.
I want linux to beat out Windows, because nothing frustrates me more then trying to fix a windows system, but if Linux goes mainstream, will it defeat windows, or merely replace it?
Let us not go blindly forward, we have a lot of obstacles to avoid.
"AC, linux is more important then you or me, or even Tux. There is only one thing we can do. We have to pull the plug."
I was under the impression that Ebay, along with Amazon, and other such huge internet based companies were not making money. How can they afford to buy another company for 1.6 Billion?
The FBI programme brought down my system and it is currently fscking. At last check it was using over 80M of RAM. In a few minutes I'll see the strace log to see if it tells me anything. I do not recommend any one else runs this programme.
; }return(0);}
End alert.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
I ran the fbi prog and sigQUITted it after less then a minute. It dumped a core file that would put netscape to shame.
; }return(0);}
-rw------- 1 root root 58589184 Feb 10 17:07 core
I'm currently straceing it, and if I find anything interesting, I'll post it here.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
Or the reference to slashdot on the first line. It looks to me like this article was very much a lets-see-how-long-it-takes-to-get-slashdotted article.
; }return(0);}
just my $0.02 (add GST if in Canada)
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
here, have some more salt. :)
:); }return(0);}
it was merely a joke intended to make fun of ourselves as a community. I was always under the impression that it was the sign of a healthy community when it could make fun of itself
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
"Can't be Netscape. The last thing you want is for your tech support people to be getting calls from customsers 'cause their PDA keeps on crashing (or, at least, appears to)."
; }return(0);}
Heh... I can see it now...
"Hello tech support?...yes...yes...my problem is that every time i run netscape when i drive, i get these bus errors...yes...yes, that's right bus errors. It makes me nervous to drive in the city....what?...yes...what do you mean use w3m?... it doesn't have a bus?... alright...ok...thank you. [click]"
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
pine on the road! lynx in the forest! mpg123 in the mineshaft! all with libncurses5-dev! the world can get no better! :)
:); }return(0);}
Never before have we been able to 'make zImage' on the back of our hands. never before have we had travelling ssh daemons!
or is it linux based public display of affection... well yeah, i always publically display my affection for linux
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
hey cool... I'd given up on NYT.. guess they came over to the dark side :)
; }return(0);}
thanks for pointing that out.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
Free registration required... why can't NYT get an Anonymous Coward account kind of thing... make the NYT site run off slash 0.9.2...
:)
; }return(0);}
Anyhow, from what I gather in the header, it looks kind of cool. Considering such companies only spend about US$600 on each car they advertise they are putting a fair investment into the computers.
I don't know if this is good or bad though, yes give everyone computers, but boy will you[Ford] ever have headaches if problems start arising with them. 350,000 computers takes more then a 10 guy tech-support to operate.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
Always one for cynicism, I think this whole thing with the RIAA and the MPAA and the DeCSS is just going to show how far out of whack US capitalism has gone.
; }return(0);}
Patents, Copyrights, etc. are[were] designed to protect people, not profits. It used to be a crime to profiteer in the US, now its a crime to prevent the rich from getting richer. I feel very strongly that its time for the US to go back to revolution and start clean. Same applies to most western democracies.
I can't remember who said it (I'm no historian), but one of the American 'fathers' cautionned that the US needed a civil war or societal restructuring of some sort every generation to ensure a truly democratic nation.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
You may or may not remember this.. but I think this can be relevant if you think of web pages as faxes :)
:)
; }return(0);}
GUIDE TO SAFE FAX
Q: Do I have to be married to have safe fax?
A: Although married people fax quite often, there are many single people who fax complete strangers every day.
Q: My parents say they never had fax when they were young and were only allowed to write memos to eachother until they were twenty-one. How old do you think someone should be before they can fax?
A: Faxing can be performed at any age, once you learn the correct procedure.
Q: If I fax something to myself, will I go blind?
A: Certainly not, as far as we can see.
Q: There is a place on our street where you can go and pay to fax. Is this legal?
A: Yes, many people have no other outlet for their fax drives and must pay a "professional" when their need to fax becomes too great.
Q: Should a cover always be used for faxing?
A: Unless you are really sure of the one you are faxing, a cover should always be used to insure safe fax.
Q: What happens when I incorrectly do the procedure and I fax prematurely?
A: Dan't panic! Many people prematurely fax when they haven't faxed in a long time. Just start over, most people won't mind if you try again.
Q: I have a personal and a business fax. Can transmissions become mixed up?
A: Being bi-faxual can be confusing, but as long as you use a cover with each one, you won't transmit anything you're not supposed to.canadia:~#
meant to be taken with an ocean of salt, of course.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
DOS Batch files!! they kicked!
:)
:) ... the calendar: 2800 lines... I've written three patches for it since, and its now over 5000 lines long.
:)
; }return(0);}
I wrote the word game of boggle in batch (6500 lines), and a batch script that randomly replied to questions. Random number generation in Batch was about 200 lines.
Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote a calendar for a PS/2 in batch as we have a macintosh functioning as a clock, and a formerly abandonned ps/2 on the windowsill in our club office
I even wrote a TSR manager in batch which allowed me, to the best of the programme's abilities, to load and unload TSRs, complete with a menu.
All you need? getkey.com: B4 00 CD 16 B4 4C CD 21
(ok ok so i have too much free time...had.....have)
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
He doesn't really say the PC market will fade, but more that the wireless market will increase. This is true. As wireless high-speed communications increase in availability they will increase in popularity, because, face it, people will want such toys. PCs will hold on for some time yet because of things like full keyboards, mice and large monitors. Newer people from the older generation trying to learn computers will tend not toward wireless high-speed gizmos, but more toward the PC desktop market as a [relatively] easy to use method of computing. Personally, I don't think something like the palm-top with an airlan type connection would suit me, as I can not see taking a 3-6 inch monitor seriously... imagine slashdot on one of those?; }return(0);}
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
Why not pass legislation that forces all vehicles to report their velocity and direction every n ticks of an onboard clock to a control tower? Then noone would know who what when where or why....well maybe where who when what but not why...
; }return(0);}
For privacy: any car entering an area is assigned a call sign, and when it exits that broadcast area its ID is handed-off to a new car coming in... *shrug* would make more sense then cell phones.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
Hey wait.. wasn't linux invented in a social-democracy?
; }return(0);}
And yes I -would- like some Marx with that. I'm tired of American Capitalist Fascism and greed. Profit, by its very nature, means taking more then you give back to the community. In order for you to profit, you have to take more then what you sold was worth, and by marketing, brainwash people into thinking what garbage you have to offer is a life necessity.
A utopia, by definition, is an unatainable goal.
Socialism would work if there was no capitalism constantly trying to break into the socialist markets. Capitalism results in animosity and ecological destruction. Just the world I want to live in.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
I don't think anything mathematical or intellectual can[except legally] or should be patentable. I think a great problem with our society is how it is so individualist that if anyone's right to have independant thought is midly infringed upon they can screw several other people out of that same right. An ideal society (a utopia perhaps) would have everyone -pool- any and all ideas they had for peer review and total acceptance and widespread usage. To loosely quote someone's sig (from a while ago?), if you horde it, it just smells bad.
; }return(0);}
The patent system is generally abused nowdays and no attention is payed to anything but legalese. IIRC someone several years ago tried to patent the binary counting system and binary math. This should not be.
The patent office should issue Invention-credit certificates or something that says "Look it, I invented this. See give me credit. If you find it useful, I'd like to put food on my plate." - kind of like the old shareware lisence.
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
Slashdot, to me, has the smell of something that has been closed for a long time. It last relieved it self at 0.4. Man.. I hope the slashbladder can hold up....
; }return(0);}
kernel.org: smells like corn
microsoft.com: to small to see, only smell. (Same shit, different flavour.)
andover.net: bendover andover andover again...
gnu.org: smells like a small animal
freebsd.org: smells like burning flesh
debian.org: the refreshing smell of purity
ebay.com: all you can buy of everything you don't need....smells of capitalism
freshmeat.net: say no more
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)