> Oh, please... how can you ever suppose that a Redhat 5.2 can even _TRY_ to use ed?
Because it's ed man! !man ed.
On any system *I* administrate vim symlinks to ed.
ED IS THE STANDARD EDITOR!
Yes, you are right... but what I am saying is that you expect too much from a Redhat 5.2. Redhat 5.2 barely knows to run vi, edit a file and writing:wq in the end... if something goes wrong in the editing Redhat 5.2 just does a killall -9 vim because she goes in panic easily trying to cope with it... you really expect her, a poor n00b who escaped windows 95 two days before, to cope with ED?
I understand you, if Redhat 5.2 can't use Ed to shitdown (yes, I wrote shitdown) herself, then let her live her misery... we are Unix bastards, we can't bear other users misery:)... let 'em do their own filthy job.
"the computer destroys you!" is perfectly applicable to those that suffer from a form of Repetetetive Strain Injury, such as Tendonditis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Cubital Tunnel syndrome, DeQuervain's Disease, etc...
But if you stick an hot iron in your eyes after seeing goatse, whose fault it is? Your computer, which allowed you to see it, or simply yours?
we were asked and incouraged by our supervisors to leave the machines unlocked because our work was always a big rush and they needed to have an access to everyone's machine and account, to read the documentation (even if we were writing it).
Then came in the team this idiot, a moron who only had the pc from a year past, and the intarweb from six month past... he became using someone's account (including mine) to sell his fscking moped or to send or ask for evening job's resumes. He was asked to leave after two weeks since he showed that he was so bored at work to find night ones.
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The good old "To:everyone@company, Subject:I should not leave my workstation unlocked", or on old shitty nt networks the/net send domain "I am momently away from the pc to do important work, so please don't send me stuff" are the best thing you can do:)
Who ever needs new videogames when there's slashdot?
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I always dreamed to have a first post on slashdot. Now I can unsubscribe the site because all the mods will be modding me down and sending my Karma in the recess of the space:(
Ok a little ot before starting the comment: I laughed out loud reading the Anonymous Coward comment on the difference between Bob Goatse and Darl Mc Bride (can't find it tough:(...)
Anyway, back ontopic. Ransom Love's article is well written. It makes some valid points and it also shows that no matter what, in 2004 we will not hear anymore about Sco (I will rename myself ILoveLove when it will happen... well... nope, it's too stupid as nickname:D).
The part that please me most about this article are:
The quick recount about Project Monterrey's failure (tough it has foregone that Monterrey wasn't only a Sco and IBM venture... there was a third company in there... Sequent? Compaq? Can't remember who:() and his final words about the lawsuit devastating the company as a controlled fire gone wrong are clear and actual.
The only thing that gets my perplexity are the fact that even under Love, Caldera was reknown for some stupid, anti-gpl errors (do you remember the "closed-source with NDA beta"?) or a mostly anti-opensource community stance (Caldera was the first distro not to have a public release... there must be a reason if today Redhat, Debian, Gentoo and Mandrake are the most known linux distros)... anyway... we can't underestimate the importance that Love's Caldera had in the Linux scenario.
At least because with the Sco buyout demonstrated that Unix is a dying operating system that will be surpassed by linux.
Too bad that SCO is prey of a venture that is going to play the inflate-the-price, divide-the-company, sell-the-pieces. Just like Commodore in the past...
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I didn't find it:(
The trollpost I was telling you before stated more or less this... (now don't mod me down because of this...)
Subject: what is the difference between Bob Goatse and Darl Mc Bride?
The first HAS the widest asshole on earth
The second IS the widest asshole on earth.
Actually I would wager that they are covering thier bottom line. Tough for them to sell HP Hardware and Linux solutions if buys are worried about getting sued if they do buy.
Not only that, but if SCO sues a series of Linux users and HP stands between SCO and the user, HP will still have all the remaining HP-Linux buyers to back the lawsuit costs. No matter if the users are sued are 10 or 1000.
Anyway, I think that the "HP official server" (or workstation) shipped with Linux still covers a small part of the market, not talking about HP shipments, but in general...
In hardware it has acceleration for the most common kind of graphic needs required by phone guis... it includes the sub-pixel LCD color dithering (so that you can also read document too). Interfaces both to Motorola and AMD devices...
I think we will be seeing many of those chipsets around. Too bad that we will usually not know which chipset a phone ships with:(
Jesus H. Christ man, you've just tried to back up your argument by using David 'I am the Second Coming, and will defect the 7ft Lizards who have taken over the world' Icke as a source. Are you completely insane?
Whoops... well, besides David Icke, also my dentist tells me to stay away from fluoride for the same reasons. And she also saved my father's life (literally... he had a bad bad bad case of dental abscess, which caused him to have liquid matter all behind his palate-bone...).
Ok, Ok, I am using my life experience which cannot count a damn in an objective discussion... I cannot convince you, but I am convinced:).
I'm against flouride in the water too, as some people are clearly allergic to it, but bringing the mentally unstable Icke into it is a very bad idea.
If Lindows is like fluoride in the water, then Lindows makes you stupid.
Sources at:
Indymedia:
Rather sarcastic and somehow a flamebait, but still worth a read.
David Ickle's website: Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package.
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re RDF for porn...
http://rdfweb.org/2002/svgsemantics/picsng-demo.ht ml good for finding it, good for filtering it...
also re rdf/foaf addons for slash, there are some rough notes in the FOAF wiki, see http://rdfweb.org/topic/SlashFoaf
Hey! It's not fair! You are from the rdf team at
http://rdfweb.org!!!
Anyway, those applications are interesting indeed. Do you know of some software like Haystack (but already USABLE) on Windows or is it still a "work in progress" technology?
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Think of it like a for layer model. You have your message (data), the structure of your message (metadata), the structure of your metadata (RDF), and the structure of RDF (RDF schema).
Following your example we begin having something concrete... like a pic, let's say a nice artistic nude of a fiery redhead.
Then the metadata is telling me that what I am displaying is a 16.000.000 colours jpg.
Now, following your example is confusing, because you say that RDF is the structure of the structure of my message. RDF instead, as I understood it (see http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/)
serves to tell a machine that the pic is a jpg having a very nice, nude, redhaired woman depicted artistically. So RDF jumps from layer 3, to layer directly 1.
Am I wrong?
Why 4 layers? Because everyone gets tired after 3--you don't need more than pointer to pointer to void in C: **mydata. Data plus two levels of abstraction is enough--you reach closure since a pointer to a pointer is still a pointer.
I fail to see the problem in having the RDF Schema around. The RDF Schema is here only to say "RDF must have this syntax". If RDF was going to have a looser structure, then it would have been impossible to fix it down and oblige the writers of RDF-compliant software to stick to a single specification. So interoperability was going away.
Also, why should we loose java?:)
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RDF is a great idea. But it needs to loose the java and the XML. People who are attracted to those have no use for RDF--they want messages they can read without documentation.
Ahem. Could you please elaborate more on this? If I am not mistaken RDF is good for creating links to physical resources with a certain kind of criteria that can be shared between different kind of applications.
Like, for example, someone telling you about a new WiFI exploit on an IRC security channel, and making the program to find all the e-mails relevant to the subject on bugtraq, or something like that.
I know XML is more than that, but in the corporate world its attraction is "configuration files I can read after the author was outsourced".
Well, XML is a syntax. RDF is content.
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I'm sure RDF has plenty to offer to the world of online porn. Porn afficianados will more efficiently scour their favorite sites to find the material pertaining to their specific fetishes. Porn merchants will more easily attract the customers who seek them by exactly specifying what they have to offer instead of spamming the search engines with likely keywords.
I think that sites like Autopr0n could start this:)... the only problem is that they would need to have.
What about other kind of sites like fark.com or bash.org? Hey! We could also convince taco, malda, roblimo to turn slashdot to rdf.:D
Instant slashdot in your haystack
http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/
The only problem is: think about the trolls trying to link all the Slashdot book reviews to the goatse pic... you open amazon, try to find the new Harry Potter for your child, look at the description (cached by slashdot) and see... Darl Mc Bride's picture where he is pouring hot grits on his pants:D
1) try muds for size.. sure not gfx pretty or distributed.
Heh, yes, Muds are good, but they are all different and rather small communities, at least here in Europe:/. I am also researching them, not bad, anyway a mud experience is rather different than a mmorpg one.
A distributed mud could be an interesting programming exercise...
(but i find distributed to be too much subject to cheating)
That's because closed source games still rely too much on clients:(
2) dunno.. but don't the major games already have different servers for different areas?
Well... what I was saying with "Grid Computing" is that there is no physical server tied to a zone. If a zone becomes too crowded to be managed, it wanders on the net and finds a faster server with a better bandwidth.
Slashdot Mirror
The miserable S.O.B. who hot linked me there without warning me. PS - I have a hot poker all ready for you, you b******!
If you went to live in soviet russia, you would have disgusted http://goatse.cx, and not the other way round.
Or was it if soviet russia went to live to you?
Because it's ed man! !man ed.
On any system *I* administrate vim symlinks to ed.
ED IS THE STANDARD EDITOR!
Yes, you are right... but what I am saying is that you expect too much from a Redhat 5.2. Redhat 5.2 barely knows to run vi, edit a file and writing :wq in the end... if something goes wrong in the editing Redhat 5.2 just does a killall -9 vim because she goes in panic easily trying to cope with it... you really expect her, a poor n00b who escaped windows 95 two days before, to cope with ED?
I understand you, if Redhat 5.2 can't use Ed to shitdown (yes, I wrote shitdown) herself, then let her live her misery... we are Unix bastards, we can't bear other users misery :)... let 'em do their own filthy job.
>>> I installed Red Hat 5.2 and my computer can't figure out how to edit its scripts so it can commit suicide.
>> You left out vim-common.
ed is the standard editor.
Oh, please... how can you ever suppose that a Redhat 5.2 can even _TRY_ to use ed?
In soviet russia you spam former nigerian presidents...
Now beat this.
I installed Red Hat 5.2 and my computer can't figure out how to edit its scripts so it can commit suicide.
You left out vim-common.
But if you stick an hot iron in your eyes after seeing goatse, whose fault it is? Your computer, which allowed you to see it, or simply yours?
Computer-controlled nuclear power plants meltdown YOU!
I installed Windows 95 and my computer suicided itself
Then came in the team this idiot, a moron who only had the pc from a year past, and the intarweb from six month past... he became using someone's account (including mine) to sell his fscking moped or to send or ask for evening job's resumes. He was asked to leave after two weeks since he showed that he was so bored at work to find night ones.
+ + + + /net send domain "I am momently away from the pc to do important work, so please don't send me stuff" are the best thing you can do :)
The good old "To:everyone@company, Subject:I should not leave my workstation unlocked", or on old shitty nt networks the
Maybe he will do something stupid, and blow up the store or something. Do you remember WHO is Kasumi and WHERE does she live?
Disregard the first post... :(...
lookie here.
For the first year Piro of Megatokyo hasn't posted a TGS panel yet
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I always dreamed to have a first post on slashdot. Now I can unsubscribe the site because all the mods will be modding me down and sending my Karma in the recess of the space
Sorry to all the people :(
Anyway, back ontopic. Ransom Love's article is well written. It makes some valid points and it also shows that no matter what, in 2004 we will not hear anymore about Sco (I will rename myself ILoveLove when it will happen... well... nope, it's too stupid as nickname :D).
The part that please me most about this article are: :() and his final words about the lawsuit devastating the company as a controlled fire gone wrong are clear and actual.
The quick recount about Project Monterrey's failure (tough it has foregone that Monterrey wasn't only a Sco and IBM venture... there was a third company in there... Sequent? Compaq? Can't remember who
The only thing that gets my perplexity are the fact that even under Love, Caldera was reknown for some stupid, anti-gpl errors (do you remember the "closed-source with NDA beta"?) or a mostly anti-opensource community stance (Caldera was the first distro not to have a public release... there must be a reason if today Redhat, Debian, Gentoo and Mandrake are the most known linux distros)... anyway... we can't underestimate the importance that Love's Caldera had in the Linux scenario.
At least because with the Sco buyout demonstrated that Unix is a dying operating system that will be surpassed by linux.
Too bad that SCO is prey of a venture that is going to play the inflate-the-price, divide-the-company, sell-the-pieces. Just like Commodore in the past...
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I didn't find it
The trollpost I was telling you before stated more or less this... (now don't mod me down because of this...)
Subject: what is the difference between Bob Goatse and Darl Mc Bride?
The first HAS the widest asshole on earth
The second IS the widest asshole on earth.
South Tyrol is only a mere geographical expression.
They are only good for their Wafer Candies and because they host an Oktoberfest even if they are in Italy.
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Ok, ok, I love South Tyrol (even if I am not a Tyrolean).
Not only that, but if SCO sues a series of Linux users and HP stands between SCO and the user, HP will still have all the remaining HP-Linux buyers to back the lawsuit costs. No matter if the users are sued are 10 or 1000.
Anyway, I think that the "HP official server" (or workstation) shipped with Linux still covers a small part of the market, not talking about HP shipments, but in general...
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Sco is sooooo fucked in the 4$$.
In hardware it has acceleration for the most common kind of graphic needs required by phone guis... it includes the sub-pixel LCD color dithering (so that you can also read document too). Interfaces both to Motorola and AMD devices...
I think we will be seeing many of those chipsets around. Too bad that we will usually not know which chipset a phone ships with :(
You may half-joke, but I Aol. When we will see cheap, low-power 3d acceleration for handelds? Do we really need to wait PSP?
Digital Data Porn (workplace safe if you aren't a nerd).
Whoops... well, besides David Icke, also my dentist tells me to stay away from fluoride for the same reasons. And she also saved my father's life (literally... he had a bad bad bad case of dental abscess, which caused him to have liquid matter all behind his palate-bone...).
Ok, Ok, I am using my life experience which cannot count a damn in an objective discussion... I cannot convince you, but I am convinced :).
I'm against flouride in the water too, as some people are clearly allergic to it, but bringing the mentally unstable Icke into it is a very bad idea.
Ok, so let's ask the association ofParent of Fluoride-Poisoned Children which kind of research papers they foundscientific papers on the National Center of Biotechnology Information...
Sources at:
Indymedia: Rather sarcastic and somehow a flamebait, but still worth a read.
David Ickle's website: Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package.
Another piece: Fluoride is intoxicating. Another here: Do I need to quote some more stuff?
also re rdf/foaf addons for slash, there are some rough notes in the FOAF wiki, see http://rdfweb.org/topic/SlashFoaf
Hey! It's not fair! You are from the rdf team at http://rdfweb.org!!!
Anyway, those applications are interesting indeed. Do you know of some software like Haystack (but already USABLE) on Windows or is it still a "work in progress" technology?
Following your example we begin having something concrete... like a pic, let's say a nice artistic nude of a fiery redhead./ )
serves to tell a machine that the pic is a jpg having a very nice, nude, redhaired woman depicted artistically. So RDF jumps from layer 3, to layer directly 1.
Then the metadata is telling me that what I am displaying is a 16.000.000 colours jpg.
Now, following your example is confusing, because you say that RDF is the structure of the structure of my message. RDF instead, as I understood it (see http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222
Am I wrong?
Why 4 layers? Because everyone gets tired after 3--you don't need more than pointer to pointer to void in C: **mydata. Data plus two levels of abstraction is enough--you reach closure since a pointer to a pointer is still a pointer.
I fail to see the problem in having the RDF Schema around. The RDF Schema is here only to say "RDF must have this syntax". If RDF was going to have a looser structure, then it would have been impossible to fix it down and oblige the writers of RDF-compliant software to stick to a single specification. So interoperability was going away.
Also, why should we loose java? :)
Ahem. Could you please elaborate more on this? If I am not mistaken RDF is good for creating links to physical resources with a certain kind of criteria that can be shared between different kind of applications.
Like, for example, someone telling you about a new WiFI exploit on an IRC security channel, and making the program to find all the e-mails relevant to the subject on bugtraq, or something like that.
I know XML is more than that, but in the corporate world its attraction is "configuration files I can read after the author was outsourced".
Well, XML is a syntax. RDF is content.
I think that sites like Autopr0n could start this :)... the only problem is that they would need to have.
What about other kind of sites like fark.com or bash.org? Hey! We could also convince taco, malda, roblimo to turn slashdot to rdf. :D
Instant slashdot in your haystack
http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/
The only problem is: think about the trolls trying to link all the Slashdot book reviews to the goatse pic... you open amazon, try to find the new Harry Potter for your child, look at the description (cached by slashdot) and see... Darl Mc Bride's picture where he is pouring hot grits on his pants :D
Heh, yes, Muds are good, but they are all different and rather small communities, at least here in Europe :/. I am also researching them, not bad, anyway a mud experience is rather different than a mmorpg one.
A distributed mud could be an interesting programming exercise...
(but i find distributed to be too much subject to cheating)
That's because closed source games still rely too much on clients :(
2) dunno.. but don't the major games already have different servers for different areas?
Well... what I was saying with "Grid Computing" is that there is no physical server tied to a zone. If a zone becomes too crowded to be managed, it wanders on the net and finds a faster server with a better bandwidth.