I've heard that companies like United Space Alliance have looked into the possiblity of purchasing a shuttle, but have been shot down by NASA officials.
I personally! would not! trust any company! that insists! on using! punctuation! as a vital! part of their comapany! name! (period). This should! be a reason! itself for being! added to F*cked! Company's listing!
What is the deal with this new web server Red Hat is working on? It is supposed to be part of the kernel.
That's the kernel web server. It's not a Redhat thing....anyone running Kernel 2.4 can use it on any distro.It's intended as a simple, and VERY FAST web server.
I've been reading several comments from people who missed the conference because they did not know about it, even if they lived in Ottawa. Here's some relevant info:
OCLUG - Ottawa Carleton Linux Users Group - The OLS is always discussed heavily by OCLUG members, especially since the mailing list is hosted by Achilles who organized the Symposium. It's also a great place to meet other local Linux enthusiasts, read about other events, and learn plenty.
I was thinking of Gnutella when I read that part. But Usenet definitely makes sense too. I would just hope futuristic computing environments don't yell "MAKE MONEY FAST" every ten minutes.
IIRC, when this all started back in 1995(?) PETA (the animal people) actaully owned the peta.org domain name. Then for some reason they didn't pay their Internic bill and the meat people snapped it up in a hurry.
It's been a long-running joke. Actually, I'm surprised it's still owned by the meat people. I personally think the joke's a bit old and stale now after 5 years.....
Holy crap! The video is currently showing the pit crew and they're working at 174MPH / 7000 RPM and there's not a single car in sight! That's dedication, I tell you.
I think the success of Napster may be in part due to the demand for the MP3 format, for which there are no legal sources outside MP3.com.
Huh? You mean the MP3's that I put up for independent bands on my own website World Wide Punk aren't legal even though they asked me to? Damn, looks like I'll be taking them down.:-)
(The remainder of this comment isn't a direct reply;-)
There are THOUSANDS (millions?) of free, legal MP3's out there for all kinds of great artists. Of course this depends on your musical tastes too. It just happens that the most popular use for MP3's is the piracy of over-priced pop music.
I'll admit to using Napster and even having a few illegal MP3's, but the main reason I use it in the first place is to find rare stuff that I can't buy, or to get samples of bands. And I can say this with pure honesty. I had a bit of a Velvet Underground downloading kick a few months back and it caused me to buy a CD. There ya go, I threw some money at a major label because of Napster (as much as I hate to admit giving money to those bastards, the VU is an amazing band).
Anyway, if people are so keen on protesting MPAA or major labels or whatever, what the heck are you doing listening to their bands anyway? It's like saying you're fighting Microsoft by pirating a Win98 disc.
The United States has used the Atom Bomb once on Hiroshima
You mean twice. Don't forget Nagasaki. The world has already experienced nuclear war. You would think we'd get a clue after seeing the suffering that happened in Japan.
> What, you mean babelfish.altavista.com isn't GOOD enough for you??
I took the following text from the Slashdot posting: "Assuming we don't take the path of least resistance and use English, something like this is only eventual." and ran it through Babelfish using the following translations: English - French - English - Gernam - English - Italian - English - Portuguese - English - Spanish - English
Here is the result: Angenommem not by halves they of the estoration nonupdated small of the access of the resistance and the use of the English, we are something that this only reliable one
If I download, say, a GPL'd firewall who is legally responsible when it let's through an attacker?
This whole idea of "blame" doesn't mean much anyway. If you pay a few thousand bucks to Microsoft for your office network, and someone breaks in and trashes everything, Microsoft is not held responsible. You can't sue them. You agreed to that in your license. Tough luck!:-)
So I really don't see why people run around scared of OSS because they don't have anyone to sue...
I disagree. I was never pushed around or harassed by geeks/punks/goths/D&D'ers/etc in highschool. Not once. Every single person who ever bullied me in highschool was either a football player, or someone who was in that crowd. They're the ones who were always fighting, harassing people, and making life miserable for others.
No offense, but have you ever actually seen the Northern Lights? I've had the pleasure a couple of times. It's absolutely beautiful. Seeing it on the Internet is in no way even close to the real thing. The strange sheets of bright light flashing and floating around in the sky are simply amazing.
Unfortunately it's too bright to see anything from where I live...(downtown Ottawa).
That's been bothering me too lately (in fact I was going to post that, but you beat me to it:-).
Intel's TV commercials seem to claim the exact same thing. Hey, use an Intel PIII Processor and your Internet experience will be so much faster! Never mind the fact that you have a 56k modem!
To get anywhere these days you have to use all the right buzzwords, and Internet happens to be the most important.
"It's a cybercrime. It's cyberevil," Curzon-Brown told CyberCrime correspondent Jennifer London. Is it just me, or is the word cyber used waaay too much these days?
I think this Curzon-Brown person is just some crappy professor who thinks he can make himself some hefty cyber-cash by cyber-whining about some cyber-comments in cyber-space.
Get over it. Criticism usually happens for a reason. Take it as advice and change!
...will soon grow again, due to the Slashdot Effect. All of the documents I tried either came up as "Document contains no data" or "Forbidden".
Taco, Commander Section 1, Paragraph 1 Due to posting article on rebellious website Slashdot.org, FBI web servers experienced a Denial of Service attack. This individual is to be treated with extreme suspicion and caution. See also "Yahoo", "E-Bay". ...
...Version 1.0 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation...
I've always found this a bit odd with the GPL, and now the FDL. What happens if an item in the license changes, which the author/coder no longer agrees with?
Slashdot Mirror
They were doing that originally but we had to take the guns out -- the head of the department didn't like that at all
I bet there's a little Easter Egg in there somewhere. Press CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-ESC while mashing your mouse buttons to enable chainsaws.
With the chainsaw you could at least do some quick home improvements. "Honey, how would you like to have another window right here?"
I've heard that companies like United Space Alliance have looked into the possiblity of purchasing a shuttle, but have been shot down by NASA officials.
Pun intended?
I personally! would not! trust any company! that insists! on using! punctuation! as a vital! part of their comapany! name! (period). This should! be a reason! itself for being! added to F*cked! Company's listing!
:-)
Get F*cked, Idealab!
The program was called Floppies for kiddies
No thanks, I won't be searching for that. Sounds like an attempt to take me to a NAMBLA page or something!
UMN? Shouldn't you be using GOPHER to transfer all of your files? :-)
What is the deal with this new web server Red Hat is working on? It is supposed to be part of the kernel.
That's the kernel web server. It's not a Redhat thing....anyone running Kernel 2.4 can use it on any distro.It's intended as a simple, and VERY FAST web server.
Cheers,
Vic
> Some old things are nice, like Led Zeppelin and Camaros.
Out of curiosity, do you have a mullet?
Someone else mentioned an idea of making a Slashbox for Linux events. Definitely a good idea...
Cheers,
Vic
....had a GREAT time at OLS '99 and 2000!
I was thinking of Gnutella when I read that part. But Usenet definitely makes sense too. I would just hope futuristic computing environments don't yell "MAKE MONEY FAST" every ten minutes.
Cheers,
vic
IIRC, when this all started back in 1995(?) PETA (the animal people) actaully owned the peta.org domain name. Then for some reason they didn't pay their Internic bill and the meat people snapped it up in a hurry.
It's been a long-running joke. Actually, I'm surprised it's still owned by the meat people. I personally think the joke's a bit old and stale now after 5 years.....
-Vic
Holy crap! The video is currently showing the pit crew and they're working at 174MPH / 7000 RPM and there's not a single car in sight! That's dedication, I tell you.
-vic
I think the success of Napster may be in part due to the demand for the MP3 format, for which there are no legal sources outside MP3.com.
:-)
;-)
Huh? You mean the MP3's that I put up for independent bands on my own website World Wide Punk aren't legal even though they asked me to? Damn, looks like I'll be taking them down.
(The remainder of this comment isn't a direct reply
There are THOUSANDS (millions?) of free, legal MP3's out there for all kinds of great artists. Of course this depends on your musical tastes too. It just happens that the most popular use for MP3's is the piracy of over-priced pop music.
I'll admit to using Napster and even having a few illegal MP3's, but the main reason I use it in the first place is to find rare stuff that I can't buy, or to get samples of bands. And I can say this with pure honesty. I had a bit of a Velvet Underground downloading kick a few months back and it caused me to buy a CD. There ya go, I threw some money at a major label because of Napster (as much as I hate to admit giving money to those bastards, the VU is an amazing band).
Anyway, if people are so keen on protesting MPAA or major labels or whatever, what the heck are you doing listening to their bands anyway? It's like saying you're fighting Microsoft by pirating a Win98 disc.
Cheers,
Vic
The United States has used the Atom Bomb once on Hiroshima
You mean twice. Don't forget Nagasaki. The world has already experienced nuclear war. You would think we'd get a clue after seeing the suffering that happened in Japan.
Cheers,
Vic
> What, you mean babelfish.altavista.com isn't GOOD enough for you??
:-)
I took the following text from the Slashdot posting:
"Assuming we don't take the path of least resistance and use English, something like this is only eventual." and ran it through Babelfish using the following translations:
English - French - English - Gernam - English - Italian - English - Portuguese - English - Spanish - English
Here is the result:
Angenommem not by halves they of the estoration nonupdated small of the access of the resistance and the use of the English, we are something that this only reliable one
Thanks Babelfish!
If I download, say, a GPL'd firewall who is legally responsible when it let's through an attacker?
:-)
This whole idea of "blame" doesn't mean much anyway. If you pay a few thousand bucks to Microsoft for your office network, and someone breaks in and trashes everything, Microsoft is not held responsible. You can't sue them. You agreed to that in your license. Tough luck!
So I really don't see why people run around scared of OSS because they don't have anyone to sue...
Cheers,
Vic
I disagree. I was never pushed around or harassed by geeks/punks/goths/D&D'ers/etc in highschool. Not once. Every single person who ever bullied me in highschool was either a football player, or someone who was in that crowd. They're the ones who were always fighting, harassing people, and making life miserable for others.
No offense, but have you ever actually seen the Northern Lights? I've had the pleasure a couple of times. It's absolutely beautiful. Seeing it on the Internet is in no way even close to the real thing. The strange sheets of bright light flashing and floating around in the sky are simply amazing.
Unfortunately it's too bright to see anything from where I live...(downtown Ottawa).
Cheers,
Vic
That's been bothering me too lately (in fact I was going to post that, but you beat me to it :-).
Intel's TV commercials seem to claim the exact same thing. Hey, use an Intel PIII Processor and your Internet experience will be so much faster! Never mind the fact that you have a 56k modem!
To get anywhere these days you have to use all the right buzzwords, and Internet happens to be the most important.
It's hooked up to one of the Distributed.net projects!
"It's a cybercrime. It's cyberevil," Curzon-Brown told CyberCrime correspondent Jennifer London.
Is it just me, or is the word cyber used waaay too much these days?
I think this Curzon-Brown person is just some crappy professor who thinks he can make himself some hefty cyber-cash by cyber-whining about some cyber-comments in cyber-space.
Get over it. Criticism usually happens for a reason. Take it as advice and change!
- DIY (Do It Yourself) attitude
- The source code (3 chords) is available to be used by anyone
- Selling out and doing it only for the money is frowned upon
- Many Linux geeks and punks dress funny
- Started out with a small grass-roots community of people helping each other out, but has ballooned (more than once) into massive corporate acceptance
Cheers,Vic
Could we use DNA evidence to get rid of Trolls/FirstPosters/NataliePortmanGrits messages from Slashdot?
...will soon grow again, due to the Slashdot Effect. All of the documents I tried either came up as "Document contains no data" or "Forbidden".
...
Taco, Commander
Section 1, Paragraph 1
Due to posting article on rebellious website Slashdot.org, FBI web servers experienced a Denial of Service attack. This individual is to be treated with extreme suspicion and caution. See also "Yahoo", "E-Bay".
If you wear a Beuwolf cluster of these things, will you be a super-stud?
...Version 1.0 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation...
I've always found this a bit odd with the GPL, and now the FDL. What happens if an item in the license changes, which the author/coder no longer agrees with?