My friends, I write here today to uncover the conspiracy of Zionist censorship that has taken hold of Slashdot. Please read this with an objective mind and try to remember this the next time you read an article or post a comment here.
Recently, CmdrTaco et al have made changes to Slashdot in an effort to make the site easier to use and read. Before last weekend, many stories were posted in their respective sections (e.g. a story about Mac OS X in the Apple section) and not to the front page. This was because some of these stories were of such a niche interest that they weren't deemed worthy to be posted for all the see on the site's heavily used front page. Now, all stories are posted to the front page - the niche interest ones, however, are posted in a smaller font in a tiny gray, rounded box.
These niche stories used to be a great place for the oppressed minority of this site to post their views about many topics. Many a good view about such topics as *BSD, homosexual African American clubs and the like had been found in these lesser-known stories as "first posts." Now, the revelation of these stories in these gray boxes threatens to destroy a community, a culture, neigh, a family of people who have made Slashdot the open forum for discussion that it is today.
I urge you, as a citizen of the Internet, as a human being and as a believer in free expression and speech to boycott this site immediately. It is clear the CmdrTaco is dead set on the elimination of this minority; don't let him win. As a community, we shall overcome.
...because Windows and Linux consume many, many megabytes (even gigabytes) of space, which is not feasible to manufacture into EPROM. Hard disks are slow, but for a reason; they're a cheaper storage device per gigabyte of data compared to EPROM.
Sure, you could put the kernel into EPROM, but that's a pain in the ass. Suppose you have a kernel vulnerability (be it in your Windows EPROM or your Linux EPROM). Now, suppose you're patching it from inside the OS and the power goes out. What now? With an EPROM containing your OS kernel, you're out of luck - you're going to have a boat load of fun getting your machine back up. If your kernel is on storage (like a hard disk) like everything else is, in the worst possible case scenario you have to reinstall your OS (which I bet a lot of people here do routinely anyway).
So, all in all, storing your OS in EPROM is a very, very bad idea. At least, right now.
The only reason Windows won't run right now is because of the Intel Mac's usage of EFI over BIOS. Windows only supports EFI on Itanium, and we all know how popular that platform was.
Anyway, the code is already there for EFI support in Windows - but only on the 64-bit Itanium platform. Microsoft has said that they will support EFI on Vista, so while you're right for about the next eight months or so about needing an emulation layer for BIOS, by the end of the year Windows will run natively.
Yes, I know the average Slashbot doesn't care about Windows (even though I bet many of them use it), but some of us do Windows development but prefer OS X. In that case, being able to dual boot a MacBook/iMac with Windows would be a blessing.
A friend of mine was bothering me the other day. He runs Linux and thinks he's impervious to most virus attacks. Anyway, I opened up the binary of a Linux program I wrote that simply displays "LOL" over and over again, copied and pasted it into an IM window to him. Lo and behold, his computer started sending me back "LOL" as an instant message, over and over again!
So, the moral of this story is that even if you run Linux, you're still susceptible to IM worms and attacks. My friend certainly was.
Next time, before you post a rant about security on an OS you've obviously never used, try looking up some information about it on Secunia. If you look, you'll notice that there are currently only two unpatched vulnerabilities on Mac OS X. Compare that to your average Linux distribution and you'll see that things are about even.
In modern Windows operating systems (a bit of a misnomer since I can't really concretely put my finger on when I would say "modern" began, but I'm going to guess around Win2k), most GDI code runs in userspace. So, I guess that would mean that YOU FAIL IT.
If you want to imply that there's more to come in a certain line of thought, you do it with TRIPLE periods (sometimes called an elipsis). Your double periods (sometimes called "horseshit", "stupid attempt at using an elipsis" or "improper grammar) are really, really annoying.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. At first I thought it was because I haven't read a book (non-technical) in a very long time and my reading skills are suffering or that I'm becoming dyslexic, but it's nice to see that someone else around here has difficulties with the lack of editing on this site.
Shit. Your post was such an obvious Linux blowjob fanboi rant that I threw up. Next time, try to pull Mr. Shuttleworth's penis out of your mouth before posting. Thanks.
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...as in, "if you kiss Kathleen Fent Malda you practically have mono!"
You're just jealous that no one takes the fucking spics seriously.
...wake me when it runs Mac OS X.
My friends, I write here today to uncover the conspiracy of Zionist censorship that has taken hold of Slashdot. Please read this with an objective mind and try to remember this the next time you read an article or post a comment here.
Recently, CmdrTaco et al have made changes to Slashdot in an effort to make the site easier to use and read. Before last weekend, many stories were posted in their respective sections (e.g. a story about Mac OS X in the Apple section) and not to the front page. This was because some of these stories were of such a niche interest that they weren't deemed worthy to be posted for all the see on the site's heavily used front page. Now, all stories are posted to the front page - the niche interest ones, however, are posted in a smaller font in a tiny gray, rounded box.
These niche stories used to be a great place for the oppressed minority of this site to post their views about many topics. Many a good view about such topics as *BSD, homosexual African American clubs and the like had been found in these lesser-known stories as "first posts." Now, the revelation of these stories in these gray boxes threatens to destroy a community, a culture, neigh, a family of people who have made Slashdot the open forum for discussion that it is today.
I urge you, as a citizen of the Internet, as a human being and as a believer in free expression and speech to boycott this site immediately. It is clear the CmdrTaco is dead set on the elimination of this minority; don't let him win. As a community, we shall overcome.
...sounds like a Chinese guy stumbling over the word "Blackberry" with the tradition r/l switch.
Damn! I was hoping that you would have been hit by a bus or something over Christmas. It now appears that you're alive and well.
Aren't you from Argentina? A lot of Nazis live down there... SIEG HEIL!
LOL, anything anti-Emo is funny. You and the GP win, sir.
What is GNU/Linux? Is that like a different GUI for Windows XP?
FP biznatches
...because Windows and Linux consume many, many megabytes (even gigabytes) of space, which is not feasible to manufacture into EPROM. Hard disks are slow, but for a reason; they're a cheaper storage device per gigabyte of data compared to EPROM.
Sure, you could put the kernel into EPROM, but that's a pain in the ass. Suppose you have a kernel vulnerability (be it in your Windows EPROM or your Linux EPROM). Now, suppose you're patching it from inside the OS and the power goes out. What now? With an EPROM containing your OS kernel, you're out of luck - you're going to have a boat load of fun getting your machine back up. If your kernel is on storage (like a hard disk) like everything else is, in the worst possible case scenario you have to reinstall your OS (which I bet a lot of people here do routinely anyway).
So, all in all, storing your OS in EPROM is a very, very bad idea. At least, right now.
The only reason Windows won't run right now is because of the Intel Mac's usage of EFI over BIOS. Windows only supports EFI on Itanium, and we all know how popular that platform was.
Anyway, the code is already there for EFI support in Windows - but only on the 64-bit Itanium platform. Microsoft has said that they will support EFI on Vista, so while you're right for about the next eight months or so about needing an emulation layer for BIOS, by the end of the year Windows will run natively.
Yes, I know the average Slashbot doesn't care about Windows (even though I bet many of them use it), but some of us do Windows development but prefer OS X. In that case, being able to dual boot a MacBook/iMac with Windows would be a blessing.
A friend of mine was bothering me the other day. He runs Linux and thinks he's impervious to most virus attacks. Anyway, I opened up the binary of a Linux program I wrote that simply displays "LOL" over and over again, copied and pasted it into an IM window to him. Lo and behold, his computer started sending me back "LOL" as an instant message, over and over again!
So, the moral of this story is that even if you run Linux, you're still susceptible to IM worms and attacks. My friend certainly was.
God, those images from that little teaser made my retinas bleed.
If open source is so cool, why can't you at least have images that don't make people want to yank out their eyes?
Are the editors awake today? Read this:
It certainly happened to you to be so frustrated by the 'reactions' of your computer that you wanted to break it.
Is it just me or is the above not proper English? It makes no sense and sounds like something Zonk would post.
Next time, before you post a rant about security on an OS you've obviously never used, try looking up some information about it on Secunia. If you look, you'll notice that there are currently only two unpatched vulnerabilities on Mac OS X. Compare that to your average Linux distribution and you'll see that things are about even.
I should know - I do security work for a living.
The constant knob slobbing over Google's every chunk of turd is really getting old.
...is Zonk. Hey Zonk, shut the fuck up!
Windows 3.x can't even display JPEGs and WMFs, you idiot.
In modern Windows operating systems (a bit of a misnomer since I can't really concretely put my finger on when I would say "modern" began, but I'm going to guess around Win2k), most GDI code runs in userspace. So, I guess that would mean that YOU FAIL IT.
Hey, idiot - I have a newsflash for you.
If you want to imply that there's more to come in a certain line of thought, you do it with TRIPLE periods (sometimes called an elipsis). Your double periods (sometimes called "horseshit", "stupid attempt at using an elipsis" or "improper grammar) are really, really annoying.
I don't think anyone gives a shit about this article, thus not really hitting the "stuff that matters" part of the site's slogan.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. At first I thought it was because I haven't read a book (non-technical) in a very long time and my reading skills are suffering or that I'm becoming dyslexic, but it's nice to see that someone else around here has difficulties with the lack of editing on this site.
Shit. Your post was such an obvious Linux blowjob fanboi rant that I threw up. Next time, try to pull Mr. Shuttleworth's penis out of your mouth before posting. Thanks.
It's a Christmas Miracle!
There is a preference pane in System Preferences where you can either shut Spotlight off or omit certain directories from being indexed.
Next time, I suggest the good ol' "RTFM" approach.