who liked Windows 98 because it was stable, predictable, and still worked fine?
stable... for a few hours? predictable... as in you'd be sure it'd crash after a few hours? i've had the displeasure of running win98 all the way to 2002, and i gotta tell ya, i didn't like it, it didn't like me and nothing worked fine.
note that i'm not just bashing windows (my 2K box, for example, gets rebooted about once a year) but calling 98 stable and predictable is... really crazy.
It's kind of like making a closed-source "fork" of linux. Which, come to think of it, probably would violate the license.
to my understanding, it's kind of like making a fork of Linux and not allowing just anyone to submit patches -- the "code" would still be out there, distributed. open source is not all contributuon, its the *openness* that matters too.
(I assume by "fork" they mean "we're going to steal all the hard work that's been denoted so far so that our new product doesn't have to start from scratch.")
if the license permits it, it's not stealing (it wouldn't be stealing anyway, perhaps you meant copyright infringement). a fork is a common thing.
They've already confirmed that OpenBSD is dying... looks like NetBSD is next.
i call bullshit. here's an article discussing NetBSD over at IBM developerWorks (that i submitted, but got rejected of course; i guess only BSD is dying news gets in nowadays -- "grousing"? what the fuck does that even mean.)
looks to me that the author of this email is just another jaded old coder that got his commit privs revoked. maybe something good will come out of this -- look at what Theo did.
NetBSD is a pretty mature OS. maybe he could just fix the threading issues and whatever else irks him, and just stop stirring shit up.
Amen. Who has time for that type of lifestyle outside of college. But going still would have been a lot of fun.
going away for a weekend... yeah, that's fucking crazy! $DEITY forbid you should take a little vacation from time to time and not feel guilty about it.
You forgot about the virgins!! The only way to insure a uneventful install or upgrade is to appease the daemons with the offering of a virgin! Seesh, amatures!!!
are you suggesting that he should slit his wrists after installing?
I think it's funny how the RIAA/MPAA are focusing their attention on all the newer technologies, when it seems to me like old technologies like Usenet and IRC are where the best sources are.
*shhhhhh* what are you trying to DO man? you're gonna tip em off!
You'd think it was a conspiracy, but no, they're just incompetent.
Only the other week they emailed their Force9 customers their customer database, for all to see.
still sounds like a good conspiracy to me. first they email whatever database to their customers, then accidentally delete all the customer email. uh-oh!
I know! I could create a Porn 2.0 website called fuckhr! Or fuckr. You post your own home-made amateur porn movies, and you tag them with tags like "hardcore", "bj", "cumshot", and "anal"! Then anyone could just search for specific tags and find some good (hopefully) amateur porn to fit their specific fetishes.
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who liked Windows 98 because it was stable, predictable, and still worked fine?
stable... for a few hours? predictable... as in you'd be sure it'd crash after a few hours? i've had the displeasure of running win98 all the way to 2002, and i gotta tell ya, i didn't like it, it didn't like me and nothing worked fine.
note that i'm not just bashing windows (my 2K box, for example, gets rebooted about once a year) but calling 98 stable and predictable is... really crazy.
Perhaps there would be MySpacers writing on message boards about how stupid all Slashdot users were for their poor fashion sense.
not dressing emo != poor fashion sense
Debian already supports Hurd and FreeBSD kernels; they could do a NetBSD one as well.
http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/
It's kind of like making a closed-source "fork" of linux. Which, come to think of it, probably would violate the license.
to my understanding, it's kind of like making a fork of Linux and not allowing just anyone to submit patches -- the "code" would still be out there, distributed. open source is not all contributuon, its the *openness* that matters too.
(I assume by "fork" they mean "we're going to steal all the hard work that's been denoted so far so that our new product doesn't have to start from scratch.")
if the license permits it, it's not stealing (it wouldn't be stealing anyway, perhaps you meant copyright infringement). a fork is a common thing.
the web is also, to use your own words, "a subset of the internet". rtfa/blurb again.
TFBlurb clearly states:
but we'd like to make at least IE work for the trivial percentage of Slashdot readers forced to use IE by their corporate overloads.
nice troll. what part of "we'll try to cater to your ingrateful bastards needs" did you not get?
What exactly is a blade server?
it is a server with blades.
and here's a link to the IBM press release because it looks like linking to the source has gone out of style.
wow, floyd marinescu? finally at last!
Why don't you just outsource your development work to the U.S.? Then you won't have to worry about bandwidth.
how so? are US - UK pipes free?
While it may be true that not all muslims are terrorists, all the terrorists so far have been muslims
sure they are timmy. contrary to popular (american) belief, tehhrarists have not been invented in september 2001.
I'm pretty sure I've seen some university project identical to this some time (1 year ?) ago.
Google Image Labeler is based in part on technology licensed from and developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
They've already confirmed that OpenBSD is dying... looks like NetBSD is next.
i call bullshit. here's an article discussing NetBSD over at IBM developerWorks (that i submitted, but got rejected of course; i guess only BSD is dying news gets in nowadays -- "grousing"? what the fuck does that even mean.)
looks to me that the author of this email is just another jaded old coder that got his commit privs revoked. maybe something good will come out of this -- look at what Theo did.
NetBSD is a pretty mature OS. maybe he could just fix the threading issues and whatever else irks him, and just stop stirring shit up.
just my two 0.02RON
Amen. Who has time for that type of lifestyle outside of college. But going still would have been a lot of fun.
going away for a weekend... yeah, that's fucking crazy! $DEITY forbid you should take a little vacation from time to time and not feel guilty about it.
You forgot about the virgins!! The only way to insure a uneventful install or upgrade is to appease the daemons with the offering of a virgin! Seesh, amatures!!!
are you suggesting that he should slit his wrists after installing?
Hell, it's not funny, it's true.
it's funny coz it's true!
I think it's funny how the RIAA/MPAA are focusing their attention on all the newer technologies, when it seems to me like old technologies like Usenet and IRC are where the best sources are.
*shhhhhh* what are you trying to DO man? you're gonna tip em off!
I have no idea how many people mistype .com though, that's a pretty bad/lazy typo
indeed. especially when browsers support CTRL+ENTER since like forever.