You're kidding me, right? CHAOS has been out for some 2 years (at least). Unless I'm misunderstanding, or another Australian organization is doing this...:
Oh, come on. We all know that Slashdot is a bit slow...
Could they not of thought of a better name, how about.Grid or something else Microsoftie, well at least it wasn't called KAy05
Microsoft would have called it the "ActiveChaos Computation Improvement Suite XP" and released it in Embedded, Home, Professional and Server variants whose main difference is the color of the splash screen.
It would make a lot more sense if this was only intended for use in demonstrations and testing though, as I can imagine very few companies would feel a need to use this sort of distro on a nightly basis, but for one off activities it may be useful.
It's not a company, but at my university (the University of Bremen, FYI) we have a computer lab full of Dual P4 Fedora boxen, some WinNT boxen and a few antique Sun Blade 100s. At least the Linux boxen are clustered at night and used to bruteforce the student's passwords. If they manage to discover your password your account is locked and you have to go to the admin and have a little talk with him concerning secure passwords.
I can imagine that a lot of companies might be using similar means of making sure that the suits don't use immensely creative passwords like "love", "sex" or "god".
I had seriously expected the Pentagon to be a huge amount smaller than this, with a vague thought of hover.
I've always thought of the Pentagon as a building, you know... one of those huge things you can actually enter. Thirteen inches seem a bit small for that.
The concept of a hovering Pentagon is cool, however. Nukes are so Cold War, in 2005 it has to be a flying office building.
Quote fom the PDF: "When parents are happy there are fewer lawsuits [...]"
The thought of a country where that sentence applies scares me. Seriously. If there's anything that made me appreciate Germany and the European Union then it's the constant stream of stories about things like that.
Sorry for the troll, but seriously - a country where the first reaction to anything unpleasant is a lawsuit is quite scary. Especially when the country in question is a superpower.
Just so we're clear that I will *not* be paying for any therapy that may be required afterward.
Speaking of which, is there a plugin that pretends to be a webcam but "records" nothing but the Goatse image? If someone wants a picture of me without politely asking for it they should get what they deserve.;)
Over here in Germany you find Firefox everywhere.
Pretty much every peridocal that is about computers, features things you can plug into computers or has a microprocessor involved in the production process has Firefox all over the cover, a copy on the CD/DVD and probably tweaking tips inside.
Okay, maybe I exaggerated a bit, but Firefox is very present in German computing magazines, especially the ones aimed at Joe User. I expect its market share in Germany to significantly increase in the near future.
So, alligators have forked from dinosaurs? Maybe we can port the chicken-ness... You know, reverse-engineer feathers and stuff and patch it into the alligators' code. Maybe create a new "feathery" branch.
Just make sure you inplement fly() AFTER you have removed all references to eat_human().
Further, Novell is currently profitable and has a fat bank account. I think they'll have enough cash flow to finish any transition to Linux. With their brand name and history, they'll easily make SUSE the #2 Linux distro around (with a real shot at #1).
Who's number 2? I'm from Germany where SUSE is probably the most well-known Linux distro, with Mandrake and Redhat fighting for #2... But apparently that seems to be different in the rest of the world.
Is that the problem with this picoscillatory nanoids is that their normal modes have a tendency to reverse the polarity of the neutron flux through the quantum mass matrix.
But if we reroute energy to the interocitor and reconfigure the main deflector to emit bogon radiation it might just work.
Great, then he'll almost kill someone, get kicked out of the family for some reason and go on the adventure of his artificial life with his talking robot teddy. Hmm, this sounds strangely familiar...
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Besides that, all the linux-geeks I know either want one, already have one or don't need one since they've gotten themselves an iBook. but that's not such a large part of the people we get in our store.
I am a Linux geek. I have an iBook (one of the new 12" G4s, bought just before they came out - thanks to the Apple store for automatically upgrading my order). I want a Mac mini so I can retire my Lintel box to be an oversized, loud gaming console. A dualboot setup lets me choose whether I want to be able to keep in touch with the rest of the world (as I don't want my emails spread out over two OSes) or be able to just fire up a game and have some fun - but it doesn't allow both, as I dislike Windows enough to not want do do anything except playing games on it.
The iBook is nice, but as my demands for desktops are radically different from those for a notebook it's not an option as a replacement desktop.
The Mini, especially as it now comes with Tiger, fits my needs just fine. Now I just need to get my hands on a few hundred bucks...
You guys use multiple choice? I encountered that stuff in fifth and sixth grade and never again after that. In Germany we prefer using questions like "How does Atropin affect the nervous system?", which are answered on a separate sheet of paper/in a dedicated exam booklet.
Then again, the educational system of the USA and the German one are hardly similar.
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Darth Syrup saves Episode III.
I could imagine someone poisoning a store's DNS server, changing product information, such as the price, and causing all sorts of havok.
You mean objects are falling down realistically and occasionally get stuck in the walls?
However, there is a difference between cars that use up 6 liters per 100 kilometers and ones that use up 30 l/100km.
You're kidding me, right? CHAOS has been out for some 2 years (at least). Unless I'm misunderstanding, or another Australian organization is doing this...:
Oh, come on. We all know that Slashdot is a bit slow...
Could they not of thought of a better name, how about .Grid or something else Microsoftie, well at least it wasn't called KAy05
Microsoft would have called it the "ActiveChaos Computation Improvement Suite XP" and released it in Embedded, Home, Professional and Server variants whose main difference is the color of the splash screen.
It would make a lot more sense if this was only intended for use in demonstrations and testing though, as I can imagine very few companies would feel a need to use this sort of distro on a nightly basis, but for one off activities it may be useful.
It's not a company, but at my university (the University of Bremen, FYI) we have a computer lab full of Dual P4 Fedora boxen, some WinNT boxen and a few antique Sun Blade 100s. At least the Linux boxen are clustered at night and used to bruteforce the student's passwords. If they manage to discover your password your account is locked and you have to go to the admin and have a little talk with him concerning secure passwords.
I can imagine that a lot of companies might be using similar means of making sure that the suits don't use immensely creative passwords like "love", "sex" or "god".
I had seriously expected the Pentagon to be a huge amount smaller than this, with a vague thought of hover.
I've always thought of the Pentagon as a building, you know... one of those huge things you can actually enter. Thirteen inches seem a bit small for that.
The concept of a hovering Pentagon is cool, however. Nukes are so Cold War, in 2005 it has to be a flying office building.
Quote fom the PDF: "When parents are happy there are fewer lawsuits [...]"
The thought of a country where that sentence applies scares me. Seriously. If there's anything that made me appreciate Germany and the European Union then it's the constant stream of stories about things like that.
Sorry for the troll, but seriously - a country where the first reaction to anything unpleasant is a lawsuit is quite scary. Especially when the country in question is a superpower.
They are plagiarists and they are copyright infringers. They are not thieves.
They are! I saw them coming from the PearPC website, carrying a huge bag with "PearPC sourcecode" written on it!
Oh come on, Netcraft is dead. Netsniper confirms it.
What does an X-Com clone have to do with that?
Just so we're clear that I will *not* be paying for any therapy that may be required afterward. ;)
Speaking of which, is there a plugin that pretends to be a webcam but "records" nothing but the Goatse image? If someone wants a picture of me without politely asking for it they should get what they deserve.
Over here in Germany you find Firefox everywhere.
Pretty much every peridocal that is about computers, features things you can plug into computers or has a microprocessor involved in the production process has Firefox all over the cover, a copy on the CD/DVD and probably tweaking tips inside.
Okay, maybe I exaggerated a bit, but Firefox is very present in German computing magazines, especially the ones aimed at Joe User. I expect its market share in Germany to significantly increase in the near future.
Um, you die in extreme pain?
I dunno, seems like a perfectly logical feature for Microsoft to implement.
I know not with what weapons World War IV will be fought, but World War III will be fought with paintball guns.
So, alligators have forked from dinosaurs? Maybe we can port the chicken-ness... You know, reverse-engineer feathers and stuff and patch it into the alligators' code. Maybe create a new "feathery" branch.
Just make sure you inplement fly() AFTER you have removed all references to eat_human().
Great idea. How about classes on the physics of D&D or Klingon sociology?
Further, Novell is currently profitable and has a fat bank account. I think they'll have enough cash flow to finish any transition to Linux. With their brand name and history, they'll easily make SUSE the #2 Linux distro around (with a real shot at #1).
Who's number 2? I'm from Germany where SUSE is probably the most well-known Linux distro, with Mandrake and Redhat fighting for #2... But apparently that seems to be different in the rest of the world.
Is that the problem with this picoscillatory nanoids is that their normal modes have a tendency to reverse the polarity of the neutron flux through the quantum mass matrix.
But if we reroute energy to the interocitor and reconfigure the main deflector to emit bogon radiation it might just work.
v 0.4.2 has support for linebreaks.
Great, then he'll almost kill someone, get kicked out of the family for some reason and go on the adventure of his artificial life with his talking robot teddy. Hmm, this sounds strangely familiar...
Besides that, all the linux-geeks I know either want one, already have one or don't need one since they've gotten themselves an iBook. but that's not such a large part of the people we get in our store.
I am a Linux geek. I have an iBook (one of the new 12" G4s, bought just before they came out - thanks to the Apple store for automatically upgrading my order). I want a Mac mini so I can retire my Lintel box to be an oversized, loud gaming console. A dualboot setup lets me choose whether I want to be able to keep in touch with the rest of the world (as I don't want my emails spread out over two OSes) or be able to just fire up a game and have some fun - but it doesn't allow both, as I dislike Windows enough to not want do do anything except playing games on it.
The iBook is nice, but as my demands for desktops are radically different from those for a notebook it's not an option as a replacement desktop.
The Mini, especially as it now comes with Tiger, fits my needs just fine. Now I just need to get my hands on a few hundred bucks...
They're talking about 1337 d00ds with access to "hacker tools" like Sub7.
You guys use multiple choice? I encountered that stuff in fifth and sixth grade and never again after that. In Germany we prefer using questions like "How does Atropin affect the nervous system?", which are answered on a separate sheet of paper/in a dedicated exam booklet. Then again, the educational system of the USA and the German one are hardly similar.
I thonk that they should start and end the entire nuclear war near the end of winter. Then we get post-nuclear spring, which is much more enjoyable.