Being Joe Everyguy doesnt make him boring, reading that article makes me wanna have a beer with him.
I think that unlike gates, with his numerous security gurads watching, I could have an honest talk with the guy, and forget that he's the definitive linux guru, and just get drunk:)
You further extend my point:)
It seems to me that Gates (with all his security guards) will only sit down with you if you want to talk bu$ine$$. Not much else.
Linus appears that he'd be willing to sit down and sip the suds with you and talk about something interesting. Anything interesting. Be it programming, OSes, quantum physics or big-titted women.
And now that SiteFinder is gone, it may take forever for 100% of these patches to be fixed/remedied/removed/ etc.
In the meantime, i'm sure that someone, somewhere (or most likely hundreds or thousands of someones) are considering what mischevious deeds they might be able to do with these patches, a situation like SiteFinder or similar.
Ever notice that whenever someone does something a little bold and arrogant, they get shut down almost right away. But within 6 months of that, the gate opens and a pile of people pop up doing things significantly worse or ugly with little effective resistance?
Oh well. Maybe i should just obey the voices in the back of my head and go kill myself.
You know, being a musician and being involved in the jargon and terminology of that "community" i must say that this guy here sounds like he's really trying to pump stuff up with over-flowery descriptions.
Oh and btw, each of those descriptions he gives all say the same thing:
"It all sounds squashed with a cut top-end and a clipped bottom end".
The same stuff we all already knew about digital sound reproduction for years.
Ma & Pa Kettle don't need 150Kb+ incoming for their P2P apps. They want to log in to the InterWeb and check their email for pics of their grandkids. If this doesn't get them loads of new users I'll be very suprised.
This is more true than you know. The ISP i work for lost hundreds of dialup customers to RoadRunner's hyped-up offerings. After the special trial price is over with, after the average (non-geek) user surfed themselves silly...
They're looking at $50-80/month for internet access they use once a week to check email with. I would say a majority of internet users can't justify the cost.
We're getting almost all our old customers back:o)
My problem with perl isn't perl itself. I have a fundamental understanding of the language, and a pretty good idea of where its niche is and what it can do for me.
I just don't have any projects!
I want to learn perl, but writing up half-hearted mock scripts doesn't teach you the same way as using it (or any language, package, device) to fulfill a certain need.
I'm also concerned about having to re-learn perl all over again when Perl6 is released.
You make technology decisions based on vague rememberings of something that you can't find evidence of?
Actually, i stopped using Mandrake some years ago due to its performance and the way it is laid out. I'm just not a RH or Mandrake person. Sorry.
But the idea of being served by ads in *any* part of the process turns me cold on ever looking at them again when i have so many other options, some of which serve my purposes quite well.
[b] Wow, this is pure religious war fodder! What were they thinking? Linux Journal must be secretly run by MS, plotting to destroy linux from the inside out by fostering infighting![/b]
I had thrown away windows in 1998 in favour of (don't shoot me) Caldera Linux. Since then i've tried all the biguns- Redhate, Mudrake, SuPe, i had been a slackware wh0re for a while. I've dabbled with the 3 major BSDs (which i really like), but i've ultimately settled on Debian.
At work i'm *forced* to use Windows. I will say that WinXP is a vast improvement over what i remember of the bletcherous mess win95 was back in the days..
But the interesting thing that i've noticed is that i know more about linux and BSD than i do about windows. Sometimes, the thought of doing something on Windows makes me nervous like it would a typical Windows user. Some of my friends (both of them!) will say stuff like "I thought you were some computer geek, or something?" and give a look of disapproval when i can't say, figure out the COM port insanity for their new printer.
I'll agree that i find Linux easier to use and configure than Windows.
Ed Hurst, a writer and a long time GNU/Linux user, decided to give FreeBSD a try.
I figured that most people hear about the *BSDs as they're getting into linux, and just about all of them try one of them out as soon as they get a handle on the whole *nix thing. (as i did).
Maybe i'm just wierd, multi-booting 5 different partitions on one 6.4GB hdd back in 1999.
I would never have guessed that the emissions from a wireless network are bad, unlike the healthy emissions given off by the now inescapable cell phones that are everywhere in public.
These days we are already bombarded with so much RF it's not even funny.
A lot of people (even die-hard WindowsXP users that are either afraid of or hate GNU/Linux or *BSD) i have shown Firebird to have jumped right on it. Others use Netscape or Opera.
Microsoft keeps touting this "We've won the Browser War!", but really... IE is a clunky, buggy, crash-prone and behind the times mess. Its mere existence is a pure security risk. It lacks numerous useful (not just frivolous) features that many other browsers have (i.e. tabs, popup blocking, working java, etc).
In short, IE is at the bottom of the pile. It may have had some advantages in the past, but aside from the New Crayola Interface, using IE feels like 1998 all over again.
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.....in Soviet Russia, Frozen and Petrified by the Siberian winds....whilst you eek out 4.profit! by bongo-spamming the world with images of Natalie Pr0tman one byte at a time?
Sorry it took so long for me to follow up. My bongo packets were echoing off the walls and causing massive dupes, so i had to move outside.
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Being Joe Everyguy doesnt make him boring, reading that article makes me wanna have a beer with him.
:)
:)
I think that unlike gates, with his numerous security gurads watching, I could have an honest talk with the guy, and forget that he's the definitive linux guru, and just get drunk
You further extend my point
It seems to me that Gates (with all his security guards) will only sit down with you if you want to talk bu$ine$$. Not much else.
Linus appears that he'd be willing to sit down and sip the suds with you and talk about something interesting. Anything interesting. Be it programming, OSes, quantum physics or big-titted women.
He's simply "one of us".
The fact that Linus seems to lead an `every-day' sort of "boring" life (his word, not mine) just makes him that much more likeable, imho.
We couldn't have asked for a better hero.
BIND Patches Make Bad Situation Worse
I hear those Nicotine Patches can do the same thing to people trying to quit smoking.
I think that DNS operators should think twice before applying code that tampers with authoritive answers from root nameservers.
Not only do i agree with your statement, but i feel this applies equally as well to mailservers (and other facets of inet infrastructure).
RFCs were created for a reason, and the day we all decide to do it our own way is the day that the internet will die.
I had a feeling this would happen.
And now that SiteFinder is gone, it may take forever for 100% of these patches to be fixed/remedied/removed/ etc.
In the meantime, i'm sure that someone, somewhere (or most likely hundreds or thousands of someones) are considering what mischevious deeds they might be able to do with these patches, a situation like SiteFinder or similar.
Ever notice that whenever someone does something a little bold and arrogant, they get shut down almost right away. But within 6 months of that, the gate opens and a pile of people pop up doing things significantly worse or ugly with little effective resistance?
Oh well. Maybe i should just obey the voices in the back of my head and go kill myself.
You know, being a musician and being involved in the jargon and terminology of that "community" i must say that this guy here sounds like he's really trying to pump stuff up with over-flowery descriptions.
Oh and btw, each of those descriptions he gives all say the same thing:
"It all sounds squashed with a cut top-end and a clipped bottom end".
The same stuff we all already knew about digital sound reproduction for years.
...will now be seen in the eyes of the unwashed masses as "low-budget" or "second-best".
OTSN: What exactly has taken place for Microsoft to say "IE Wins The Browser War!"?
Ma & Pa Kettle don't need 150Kb+ incoming for their P2P apps. They want to log in to the InterWeb and check their email for pics of their grandkids. If this doesn't get them loads of new users I'll be very suprised.
:o)
This is more true than you know. The ISP i work for lost hundreds of dialup customers to RoadRunner's hyped-up offerings. After the special trial price is over with, after the average (non-geek) user surfed themselves silly...
They're looking at $50-80/month for internet access they use once a week to check email with. I would say a majority of internet users can't justify the cost.
We're getting almost all our old customers back
My problem with perl isn't perl itself. I have a fundamental understanding of the language, and a pretty good idea of where its niche is and what it can do for me.
I just don't have any projects!
I want to learn perl, but writing up half-hearted mock scripts doesn't teach you the same way as using it (or any language, package, device) to fulfill a certain need.
I'm also concerned about having to re-learn perl all over again when Perl6 is released.
You make technology decisions based on vague rememberings of something that you can't find evidence of?
Actually, i stopped using Mandrake some years ago due to its performance and the way it is laid out. I'm just not a RH or Mandrake person. Sorry.
But the idea of being served by ads in *any* part of the process turns me cold on ever looking at them again when i have so many other options, some of which serve my purposes quite well.
Somehow i remember reading something about spyware in the last release of mandrake. Too bad i can't find the links now.
Sorry folks. I won't touch you with a 10m pole now.
No, I'm a Slashdot reader. The Yello Face burns us.
Actually, wouldn't that be:
The Cursed Yellow Face burnses us! Yessss!!!
[b] Wow, this is pure religious war fodder! What were they thinking? Linux Journal must be secretly run by MS, plotting to destroy linux from the inside out by fostering infighting![/b]
;oP
You wanna go discuss that outside,?
I had thrown away windows in 1998 in favour of (don't shoot me) Caldera Linux. Since then i've tried all the biguns- Redhate, Mudrake, SuPe, i had been a slackware wh0re for a while. I've dabbled with the 3 major BSDs (which i really like), but i've ultimately settled on Debian.
At work i'm *forced* to use Windows. I will say that WinXP is a vast improvement over what i remember of the bletcherous mess win95 was back in the days..
But the interesting thing that i've noticed is that i know more about linux and BSD than i do about windows. Sometimes, the thought of doing something on Windows makes me nervous like it would a typical Windows user. Some of my friends (both of them!) will say stuff like "I thought you were some computer geek, or something?" and give a look of disapproval when i can't say, figure out the COM port insanity for their new printer.
I'll agree that i find Linux easier to use and configure than Windows.
Ed Hurst, a writer and a long time GNU/Linux user, decided to give FreeBSD a try.
I figured that most people hear about the *BSDs as they're getting into linux, and just about all of them try one of them out as soon as they get a handle on the whole *nix thing. (as i did).
Maybe i'm just wierd, multi-booting 5 different partitions on one 6.4GB hdd back in 1999.
I would never have guessed that the emissions from a wireless network are bad, unlike the healthy emissions given off by the now inescapable cell phones that are everywhere in public.
These days we are already bombarded with so much RF it's not even funny.
[shouting] Just like everything else in the Wintel World, these guys are just copy-catting Appl.. oh.. wait.. nm
[/shouting]
Intuit has issued an apology for aggravating $50-90 million in customers
/me shakes head and goes back to coding.
First there are business models based on litigation, now customers are bought instead of won?
I will never understand business..
A lot of people (even die-hard WindowsXP users that are either afraid of or hate GNU/Linux or *BSD) i have shown Firebird to have jumped right on it. Others use Netscape or Opera.
Microsoft keeps touting this "We've won the Browser War!", but really... IE is a clunky, buggy, crash-prone and behind the times mess. Its mere existence is a pure security risk. It lacks numerous useful (not just frivolous) features that many other browsers have (i.e. tabs, popup blocking, working java, etc).
In short, IE is at the bottom of the pile. It may have had some advantages in the past, but aside from the New Crayola Interface, using IE feels like 1998 all over again.
I don't have a poster of Torvalds, nor RMS, or ESR. hell, i don't have posters of Lara Croft nor Natalie Pr0tman.
I do however have a full-sized billboard advertisement for a national brand of Instant Grits.
I think, anyways.
Now imagine the giant hoard of empty soda cans people will have in their garage for the duration, being afraid to throw them away and all.
We're talking about web-software, and the advertisement is:
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To the first tinfoil hat owning AC to suggest the RIAA submitted this to get their competition /.ed off the face of the planet. =)
;)
Naw.... slashdotting is only temporary, and doesn't hurt much.
I guess it is time to go back to smoke signals...
Yeah, but we need to start an RFC for Secure Smoke Signal Protocols. This might require Particle Hopping and encrypted blankets.
.....in Soviet Russia, Frozen and Petrified by the Siberian winds....whilst you eek out 4.profit! by bongo-spamming the world with images of Natalie Pr0tman one byte at a time?
Sorry it took so long for me to follow up. My bongo packets were echoing off the walls and causing massive dupes, so i had to move outside.