You can download previous versions of RealPlayer at the Real Legacy Software Archive. The previous versions should still play 95% of RealMedia content because they don't change around the codec, and the old versions don't have the bloat of the new ones. Plus they include versions of the player for Linux(TM), Solaris, IRIX, AIX and others at their community-supported UNIX download center.
I'm a regular customer at the local Autozone and, upon close observation, I'm fairly certain that their Point-of-Sale terminals are running modified versions of a Linux operating system. The interface is very reminiscent of an early version of GTK so that's what made me think of it. Could SCO be suing because Autozone has thousands of POS terminals "violating" their IP?
Does anybody still care about Gentoo? It is like the ultimate poseur distro. Everyone uses it because they want to be 'leet' and 'kewl' and say 'I run Gentoo and not Windows XP so I am a badass.' Way lame.
Image a Beowulf Cluster of these babies!
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OK, first, I know this is way offtopic, but I just HAD to share this revelation
with the Slashdot community. You guys are not gonna believe this.
OK, now most of you have seen the move Billy Madison, right? Ha ha, that
movie kicks some serious fucking ass. Adam Sandler is like the fuckin' man and
shit. Now, you remember the part, where Billy (Adam Sandler) is all hungover, and he sees
this GIANT FREAKIN' PENGUIN runnin' around and shit? Oh Christ, that part is
awesome. So anyway, there's this giant pengiun out there, in the middle of the blistering
sun, which is like SO OUT OF FUCKING CHARACTER that it's just WHACK
FUNNY. It's just this huge goofy MOTHERFUCKING PENGUIN!! It's all like...
WOW.
All right, all right, so anyway, when blitzed little Billy sees this, and it's all hot
and shit out, right, and then he says like the funniest fucking line in the movie, OK? Oh
man this line ROCKS. So he's all like "It's too damn hot for a pengiun!" HOLY
FUCKING JESUS THAT IS SOME FUNNY QUALITY ADAM SANDLER SHIT RIGHT THERE! "It's too damn
HOT for a PENGUIN!" Oh MAN, I was laughing so HARD right there and people in the theater
were like THROWIN' POPCORN and shit at me so I was all like "HAHAHA FUCK YOU ALL! You
dipshits don't apprecite Adam Sandler like I do!" and this one bitch was all givin' me grief
and shit about "being disruptive" and "ruining the movie" and shit, right? So
I'm all like "Spray it out your blow-hole, whale-butt! Your GIANT ASS is being
disruptive and ruining the movie for ME!" and then I threw my empty soda cup at her and it
fucking nailed her in the back of the neck but the cup wasn't really empty, see it
still had a bunch of ice in it because you know after I finished the Pepsi I started to
crunch the ice because it gives me something to do and shit so now I didn't have my ice cup
anymore but damn if I didn't wang that fat slut nicely with it.
Wait, whuh, where was I? Oh OK. So yeah, Billy is all like "It's too damn hot for a
pengiun!" and I'm just like hearin' this over and over echoing in my mind when
suddenly I get like one of those, uh, moments of Claritin? Like on the TV or something? No
wait, it's like a revelation or something. So then, I realize that this Adam
Sandler line is an allegory to the current state of enterprise IT solutions!
NO FUCKING WAY DUDE, you're saying, THAT IS SOME WHACKED UP SHIT but I'mma be
all like "SMACKTARD you gotta listen up!" and shit right? OK so here is how I see it:
When he says the "too damn hot" part, well, what is HOT? THE SUN, that's right,
like SUN MICROSYSTEMS. And since, like, SUN in Latin or Mexican or some shit means SOLARIS,
right, so the "too damn hot" part signifies the Sun servers and the Solaris
operating system! OK OK OK, now wait, this next part is going to BLOW YOUR MIND. OK, so
then the "for a pengiun!" part, well, I mean, THAT is like SO FUCKING OBVIOUS that
that even that burnout Ronnie down the hall would figure it out. The PENGUIN is representing
Linux! I think it has to do with that Linus Torvalds or something, and he like wrote the
kernel and he looks like a pengiun or some shit, but right, anyway. So it's like "too damn
hot" for Linux, because Linux gets SMACKED THE FUCK DOWN by Solaris. And the Linux
pengiuns HATE Sun, becuase it's all COLD at the North Pole right, and Linux knows it gets
OWNED by Solaris and Solaris is all like YEAH BITCH THAT'S RIGHT WORD TO YA
MOTHER.
So ADAM FUCKING SANDLER is forming like a COMPARISON between ENTERPRISE
OPERATING SYSTEM and is proving CONCLUSIVELY that Solaris and other enterprise OSes will
forever rule the server market. I know like everyone on Slashdot is just like all
fucked up and shit about Linux but when ADAM SANDLER says something HE FUCKING MEANS
IT and that means that Linux is failing and Solaris will forever dominate.
Posted by timothy in The Mysterious Future! from the punch-cards-and-raised-floors dept. roomisigloomis writes "The Maverick and His Machine begins with a paragraph that sounds like the first line of a film noir: 'Thomas John Watson began his life at age 40, after Dayton, Ohio, nearly ruined him.' From there, what one would expect to be a stuffy, boring book about a dead white man turns out to be an interesting and inspiring account of The International Business Machines Company (IBM) and the man who started it. Why would a geek care? Because IBM, its technological breakthroughs and Watson are very much the foundation of commercial technology as we know it today." Read on for the rest.
See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.
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RDF and OWL Are W3C Recommendations
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @12:46PM from the standardization-baby dept. J1 writes "The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read the press release for the full list of twelve documents, read the testimonials, and visit the Semantic Web home page."
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Building A Better Package Manager
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @12:05PM from the something-to-think-about dept. SilentBob4 writes "Adam Doxtater of Mad Penguin has published a preliminary layout for his proposed cross-distribution package manager capable of adding/removing software from any locale. He is suggesting the interface will basically allow for installation of several major package formats including RPM, DEB, TGZ, as well as source code with the ability to pass build time options. All of this will come at the price of standards of course, including naming, documentation, and package structuring. If this idea were to catch on, it would signify a major leap in desktop Linux usability. This might be a project that UserLinux might benefit from. Read the full column here (complete with GUI mockups)."
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Curse Your Way to Live Support
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @11:34AM from the it's-about-friggin-time dept. EtherMonkey writes "Wired is reporting on new software developed at University of Southern California's Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory. Researchers there have come up with working code to detect the frustration and anger level of callers working their way through automated attendant phone systems."The system works by analyzing not only what callers say, but also how they say it. Callers get transferred if they start to spit out expletives or if they simply sound angry.""
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Nasa Says 'no' to Hubble Reprieve
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @11:00AM from the no-shocker-here dept. falconed writes "From the BBC, 'Nasa has given a final "no" to requests for it to change its mind and grant a reprieve to the Hubble Space Telescope.' Not much new info here; canceling the program due to safety issues. This has been discussed on Slashdot before."
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Hackers Hall of Fame
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @10:21AM from the did-they-pick-the-right-ones dept. An anonymous reader writes "tlc.discovery.com has a nice feature called Hackers
Bill Gates, Hall of Fame Hacker? (P.S. First Post)
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Yeah, yeah, I know, I'll be lynched for saying that Bill "I am Satan" Gates should be on par with RMS, ESR and Linus, but think about this for a second.
Bill founded what is now the largest software company in the world, and wether or not you agree with him, he has made a important contribution to the computing industry: Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user.
Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1? Do you think that if computers still consisted on thin-client-server models based on huge VAX mainframes, that Joe and Jane Smith would be able to dial-in to AOL and connect to thousands of people around the world? Would the Internet have blossomed into the vast information network it is today without the aid of easy-to-use software from Microsoft? How about Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play, baby.
Look, disagree all you like, but thanks to things like Windows, Office, and MSN, modern computing has been made easy and affordable to everyone, thanks to pioneers like Bill Gates.
Did you know that there was more computing power in the original Palm Pilot than was used in Apollo 11 to get the astronauts to the moon? I think that's pretty cool. I mean, they were able to NAVIGATE OUTER SPACE with less technology than we use to KEEP A DATEBOOK.
If you are prototyping circuit boards, hopefully you are not doing it with your $200 HP DeskJet. There are high-end CAD printers that cost thousands of dollars with much better accuracy for industrial manufacturing.
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Surely if everyone switched to Linux(TM) the world would be a better place.
Can it run Linux(TM)?
You can download previous versions of RealPlayer at the Real Legacy Software Archive. The previous versions should still play 95% of RealMedia content because they don't change around the codec, and the old versions don't have the bloat of the new ones. Plus they include versions of the player for Linux(TM), Solaris, IRIX, AIX and others at their community-supported UNIX download center.
Outlook 2003 is the supieror mail client for Microsoft's Windows operating system. Why wasn't it included in this review?
What does this have anything to do with Linux?
because EVERYONE knows that Intel always wins.
I'm a regular customer at the local Autozone and, upon close observation, I'm fairly certain that their Point-of-Sale terminals are running modified versions of a Linux operating system. The interface is very reminiscent of an early version of GTK so that's what made me think of it. Could SCO be suing because Autozone has thousands of POS terminals "violating" their IP?
So you don't deny the fact that you are a poseur?
Does anybody still care about Gentoo? It is like the ultimate poseur distro. Everyone uses it because they want to be 'leet' and 'kewl' and say 'I run Gentoo and not Windows XP so I am a badass.' Way lame.
Could they run Linux?
WARNING!!! Spoilers in subject line!
THIS ARTICLE SUMMARY NEEDS MORE UPPERCASE.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like MICHAEL SIMS BLOWING A GASKET.
Can it run Linux?
OK, first, I know this is way offtopic, but I just HAD to share this revelation with the Slashdot community. You guys are not gonna believe this.
OK, now most of you have seen the move Billy Madison, right? Ha ha, that movie kicks some serious fucking ass. Adam Sandler is like the fuckin' man and shit. Now, you remember the part, where Billy (Adam Sandler) is all hungover, and he sees this GIANT FREAKIN' PENGUIN runnin' around and shit? Oh Christ, that part is awesome. So anyway, there's this giant pengiun out there, in the middle of the blistering sun, which is like SO OUT OF FUCKING CHARACTER that it's just WHACK FUNNY. It's just this huge goofy MOTHERFUCKING PENGUIN!! It's all like ...
WOW.
All right, all right, so anyway, when blitzed little Billy sees this, and it's all hot and shit out, right, and then he says like the funniest fucking line in the movie, OK? Oh man this line ROCKS. So he's all like "It's too damn hot for a pengiun!" HOLY FUCKING JESUS THAT IS SOME FUNNY QUALITY ADAM SANDLER SHIT RIGHT THERE! "It's too damn HOT for a PENGUIN!" Oh MAN, I was laughing so HARD right there and people in the theater were like THROWIN' POPCORN and shit at me so I was all like "HAHAHA FUCK YOU ALL! You dipshits don't apprecite Adam Sandler like I do!" and this one bitch was all givin' me grief and shit about "being disruptive" and "ruining the movie" and shit, right? So I'm all like "Spray it out your blow-hole, whale-butt! Your GIANT ASS is being disruptive and ruining the movie for ME!" and then I threw my empty soda cup at her and it fucking nailed her in the back of the neck but the cup wasn't really empty, see it still had a bunch of ice in it because you know after I finished the Pepsi I started to crunch the ice because it gives me something to do and shit so now I didn't have my ice cup anymore but damn if I didn't wang that fat slut nicely with it.
Wait, whuh, where was I? Oh OK. So yeah, Billy is all like "It's too damn hot for a pengiun!" and I'm just like hearin' this over and over echoing in my mind when suddenly I get like one of those, uh, moments of Claritin? Like on the TV or something? No wait, it's like a revelation or something. So then, I realize that this Adam Sandler line is an allegory to the current state of enterprise IT solutions! NO FUCKING WAY DUDE, you're saying, THAT IS SOME WHACKED UP SHIT but I'mma be all like "SMACKTARD you gotta listen up!" and shit right? OK so here is how I see it:When he says the "too damn hot" part, well, what is HOT? THE SUN, that's right, like SUN MICROSYSTEMS. And since, like, SUN in Latin or Mexican or some shit means SOLARIS, right, so the "too damn hot" part signifies the Sun servers and the Solaris operating system! OK OK OK, now wait, this next part is going to BLOW YOUR MIND. OK, so then the "for a pengiun!" part, well, I mean, THAT is like SO FUCKING OBVIOUS that that even that burnout Ronnie down the hall would figure it out. The PENGUIN is representing Linux! I think it has to do with that Linus Torvalds or something, and he like wrote the kernel and he looks like a pengiun or some shit, but right, anyway. So it's like "too damn hot" for Linux, because Linux gets SMACKED THE FUCK DOWN by Solaris. And the Linux pengiuns HATE Sun, becuase it's all COLD at the North Pole right, and Linux knows it gets OWNED by Solaris and Solaris is all like YEAH BITCH THAT'S RIGHT WORD TO YA MOTHER.
So ADAM FUCKING SANDLER is forming like a COMPARISON between ENTERPRISE OPERATING SYSTEM and is proving CONCLUSIVELY that Solaris and other enterprise OSes will forever rule the server market. I know like everyone on Slashdot is just like all fucked up and shit about Linux but when ADAM SANDLER says something HE FUCKING MEANS IT and that means that Linux is failing and Solaris will forever dominate.
No, the REAL question is can it run Linux?
They should just ship all the beaners back to MEH-HI-CO.
That would probably solve a lot more problems than just drunk driving.
Also, who would want to live in a state with fifty thousand 1986 Honda Accords with horns that play 'La Cucharacha'?
CHUM-DUM-BUM-BOOBALAY
traveled just over 88 feet
Or the average Slashdotter...
ALL OVER YOUR FAT FACE
SPURTING MY HOT JIZZ UP YOUR NOSTRILS
CRAMMING MY COCK DOWN YOUR THROAT
YOU CHOKE AND GAG ON MY BALLS
LUHAGUHAGLAHGLUAHGLHAGULAGHHULAG
I HAD A REALLY NICE EVENING
OH MY GOD HELP RAPE
THE HORPING BALLS
Book Reviews: The Maverick and His Machine
Posted by timothy in The Mysterious Future!
from the punch-cards-and-raised-floors dept.
roomisigloomis writes "The Maverick and His Machine begins with a paragraph that sounds like the first line of a film noir: 'Thomas John Watson began his life at age 40, after Dayton, Ohio, nearly ruined him.' From there, what one would expect to be a stuffy, boring book about a dead white man turns out to be an interesting and inspiring account of The International Business Machines Company (IBM) and the man who started it. Why would a geek care? Because IBM, its technological breakthroughs and Watson are very much the foundation of commercial technology as we know it today." Read on for the rest.
See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.
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RDF and OWL Are W3C Recommendations
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @12:46PM
from the standardization-baby dept.
J1 writes "The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read the press release for the full list of twelve documents, read the testimonials, and visit the Semantic Web home page."
( Read More... | 48 comments )
Building A Better Package Manager
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @12:05PM
from the something-to-think-about dept.
SilentBob4 writes "Adam Doxtater of Mad Penguin has published a preliminary layout for his proposed cross-distribution package manager capable of adding/removing software from any locale. He is suggesting the interface will basically allow for installation of several major package formats including RPM, DEB, TGZ, as well as source code with the ability to pass build time options. All of this will come at the price of standards of course, including naming, documentation, and package structuring. If this idea were to catch on, it would signify a major leap in desktop Linux usability. This might be a project that UserLinux might benefit from. Read the full column here (complete with GUI mockups)."
( Read More... | 178 comments )
Curse Your Way to Live Support
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @11:34AM
from the it's-about-friggin-time dept.
EtherMonkey writes "Wired is reporting on new software developed at University of Southern California's Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory. Researchers there have come up with working code to detect the frustration and anger level of callers working their way through automated attendant phone systems."The system works by analyzing not only what callers say, but also how they say it. Callers get transferred if they start to spit out expletives or if they simply sound angry.""
( Read More... | 262 comments )
Nasa Says 'no' to Hubble Reprieve
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @11:00AM
from the no-shocker-here dept.
falconed writes "From the BBC, 'Nasa has given a final "no" to requests for it to change its mind and grant a reprieve to the Hubble Space Telescope.' Not much new info here; canceling the program due to safety issues. This has been discussed on Slashdot before."
( Read More... | 168 comments )
Hackers Hall of Fame
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 10, @10:21AM
from the did-they-pick-the-right-ones dept.
An anonymous reader writes "tlc.discovery.com has a nice feature called Hackers
omg ror lolf
no yuo
jesus christ
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'll be lynched for saying that Bill "I am Satan" Gates should be on par with RMS, ESR and Linus, but think about this for a second.
Bill founded what is now the largest software company in the world, and wether or not you agree with him, he has made a important contribution to the computing industry: Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user.
Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1? Do you think that if computers still consisted on thin-client-server models based on huge VAX mainframes, that Joe and Jane Smith would be able to dial-in to AOL and connect to thousands of people around the world? Would the Internet have blossomed into the vast information network it is today without the aid of easy-to-use software from Microsoft? How about Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play, baby.
Look, disagree all you like, but thanks to things like Windows, Office, and MSN, modern computing has been made easy and affordable to everyone, thanks to pioneers like Bill Gates.
Quit wheezin' on my nug, bitch.
Did you know that there was more computing power in the original Palm Pilot than was used in Apollo 11 to get the astronauts to the moon? I think that's pretty cool. I mean, they were able to NAVIGATE OUTER SPACE with less technology than we use to KEEP A DATEBOOK.
So I'm thinkin', can it run Linux?
If you are prototyping circuit boards, hopefully you are not doing it with your $200 HP DeskJet. There are high-end CAD printers that cost thousands of dollars with much better accuracy for industrial manufacturing.
Well, that's what he calls it, anyway.
To most of us, it's "anonymous gay bathroom sex."
FP FP FP FP
Propz to CLIT members and other anti-Linux trolls.
FP FP FP FP