I was at a.NET seminar earlier this month and Paul D. Schafer (sp) said that M$ would never rewrite Office because it would be too big of a task. Something like 10 years to get to this point..
But for people like me, I support the artists I like. When I had a tape player in my car, I would routinely by tape and CD... yes I know I could have justed copied the CD to tape, as it was in my power under the fair use (or something). Now, I may d/l the CD frm the 'net, but if I like it, or plan to listen to even one track a lot, I will go out and buy the CD. Because I support the music and artists that I like.
Typical... You have the "I get my OS for free, so I must have everything else for free" attitude.. This is soo typical of the majority of the/duh crowd... let me guess.. you;ve downloaded all your music through gnapster (when napster was active)..
Doesn't the game summary for Zelda seem... well STUPID?
The latest Legend of Zelda adventure begins with young Link living a peaceful life on a tiny island. One day, Link witnesses a huge, menacing bird that snatches Link's younger sister and flies away with her. Link follows in hot pursuit. His search for her sets in motion an epic adventure that will have Link sailing the high seas and searching for answers to the mystery behind her disappearance.
I'm sorry.. but this just seems so lame.. weak story..:( I LOVED the zelda series.. I spent countless hours plaing the games.. Thats one reason why I loved the GB pokemon games... just like the first Zelda game... but this POS looks horrid.:(
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The only problem was... no documentation. I didn't remember the lady's name that I spoke with.. The only proof I have is that the account was unused for over 2 years.. They have that information.
Back in 95 when I first signed up with Shitlink, two months after i signed up.. login stopped working, so I called up customer service..
The lady said that my wife cancelled the account. I thought to myself, damn thats funny.. I'm not married, too young ot get married. Maybe my mom cancelled it. So I told the lady OK and ended the call. I called my mom and asked her if she cancelled the account. She said, No. So I figures.. ok, they SUCK ALL ASS and signed up with Hooked.Net (which was bought out 3 different times, and now is something like boss technologies or something. My account doesn't work, and there are NOcustomer service numbers on the site.. haven't been billed either, so I could give two shits.. fuck them.)
Fast forward two years, my mom shows me her CC bill and low and behold, a charge from Earthlink. TWO YEARS of billing an account that was "cencelled", so we called them on this, the g33k that we spoke with said he could refund us 2 months, but that's it. I told them to check the account, when was the last time it was used.. they said something like they couldn't do that. Fucking assmonkies..
My other ISP.. Netcom, which I sighed up for in 94, was bought out my Earthlink, so I'm an earthink member once again.. fucking lovely.
Now for DSL I have SBC Internet Services.. Pacific Bell.. No real problems in 2 years.. so I'm happy with that... wish the speed was faster though..
I really wish they would have continued to develop drivers and such for the 3dfx cards... the 3500 its a sweeet card.. TV and Video card and encoder all in one... (i know there are a few of them out now, but why buy something that I already have...)
The new Update Agent provided with Red Hat Linux 7.0 contains a daemon, rhnsd, which periodically polls Red Hat Network for updates. This daemon leaks file descriptors. On a default installation, all available file descriptors will be used by rhnsd in approximately three weeks, making the system unusable.
I really can't recall something like this for windows... something with the DEFAULT INSTALL that will make a windows system unusable after 3 weeks.. (unless you count the XP activation... heh)
At least M$ is fixing problems, maybe not as fast as the oss companies/people, but christ.. None of you guys bash redhat, suse and the like when they release an update for an app that can give you root. I know in the/. eyes M$ is the root of all evil, but you know what, best item/app/os for the job.
I don't care if its a mac/ms/*nix/*BSD or what, but if it gets the job done, relatively well and fast, I will use it.
For programming, i don't care if its VB/C/Glade/Perl/Python whatever.. whatever suits the job best. And yes, sometimes, if not MOST of the time, it's a MS solution (for me at least, YMMV).
And for the record, win win98 installation, which I just reinstalled everything ( 2 days worth of installs and hundreds of reboots ) is showing the same symptoms of the problem for the reinstall, which I'm assuming came from windows-update. So no, I'm not living in a perfect world. At the moment, I'm cursing Billy boys name, but I'm still using Win98 for most of development work and 2 linux machines as servers, since, like I said, best solution for the problem.
So flame away, you/. hypocrites, bring this post to a -1.
as an exeToys employee... sounds like the eToy/eToys bullsh.t.. fscking stupid lawyers..
fast forward 1 year..."Damn, it SEEMED like a good idea at the time to try and get rid of etoy. Stupid lawyers...."
That was one of MANY stupid mistakes by the head assmonkeys of eToys. And yes, they still owe me 5 grand in pay. Over a YEAR since I was let go.. (along with 700 other people..)
Usquebaugh submitted this link to a guy who built his own roller coaster. The guy builds grain elevators for a living and - let me take a wild, city-slicker guess - they probably use some sort of rail system for transporting grain, so.... Update: 03/14 14:29 GMT by M: We overran the bandwidth limit on his webpage - sorry buddy! From the comments below I see a mirror and another mirror.
Well M, your "buddy" was LUCKY that his hosting stopped bandwidth at 3 gigs, or/. would have made this guy pay a shitload for bandwidth. I really think/. is too popular for its own good.
It's funny that/. is all about the little guys (M$ vs open source and various other david and goliath stories) and when a little guy does something cool, his site gets/.'ed and either killed, or is paying out the ass to cover hosting bills.
I could care less about karma, so there's the disclaimer.
It's funny.. when an Open Source, Linux, BSD, *nux company is on its way down, everyone is sad and want to support or purchase products to try to keep it going. But any other company and many/. users make the following joke:
Step one: product/service Step two:...... Step three: make money.
If any of these companies had a GOOD, well thought out business plan, they wouldn't be going out of business because they could find a buyer, Sep. 11th really hurt them, or the current economy keeps them from being profitable.
If they had a GOOD service/product that people need, then they will survive. It's the nature of business that some companies will rise and some companies will fall. That's LIFE.
(lets see how quickly my "against the flow thinking" gets me modded down)
Since/. is charging for subscriptions... how about/. stat mirroring the "cool" sites that get the/. effect and make the "cool" site useless..
I hate it when there's something "cool" in a message, that 1 million other people see, and you try to go to the site and you get broken images everywhere..
Most of us use perl/perlmagick here and it wouldn't be to difficult to create a script that mirrors the site that we want, compress the hell out of the images, and have a new fangled mirror.
Remove the mirror after an hour or two, so/. doesn't use up too much hd space..
now THAT would be a service that would be worth the subscriptions...
Damn.. just about every post I see is bitching about the ads.. subscruptions.. other sites you can go to..
Shut the hell up!/. and OSDN are paying for the site.. and they want to have some sort of income for thier time and effort.. what the hell is wrong with that?!
I run a music website, and not I'm NOT going to plug it (/. effect would kill me) that I have been runing since 1998. All of it is out of my pocket. I would love for the site to pay for itself. Congrats Taco! You'll get my $5!
I could also make the joke..
Step one sell./ Subscriptions. Step two... Step three profit!
Slashdot Mirror
the required email checkin was there... but isn't hrere now.. each team sets thier own checkin rules. ass.
I was at a .NET seminar earlier this month and Paul D. Schafer (sp) said that M$ would never rewrite Office because it would be too big of a task. Something like 10 years to get to this point..
But for people like me, I support the artists I like. When I had a tape player in my car, I would routinely by tape and CD... yes I know I could have justed copied the CD to tape, as it was in my power under the fair use (or something). Now, I may d/l the CD frm the 'net, but if I like it, or plan to listen to even one track a lot, I will go out and buy the CD. Because I support the music and artists that I like.
Typical... You have the "I get my OS for free, so I must have everything else for free" attitude.. This is soo typical of the majority of the /duh crowd... let me guess.. you;ve downloaded all your music through gnapster (when napster was active)..
That would be more fun than the phone scanners used for them cordless phones!
Wit.. if there were to use this... would other people use my minutes?! F THAT!
Until you submit it to
And things have changed?!?! heh..
How the fuck is the parent post flamebait?! It'r fricking TRUE!
Doesn't the game summary for Zelda seem... well STUPID?
I'm sorry.. but this just seems so lame.. weak story.. :( I LOVED the zelda series.. I spent countless hours plaing the games.. Thats one reason why I loved the GB pokemon games... just like the first Zelda game... but this POS looks horrid. :(
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/. bad..
Program:
Database: codingstyle
Error (2006) : MySQL server has gone away
I think so... whoops..
The only problem was... no documentation. I didn't remember the lady's name that I spoke with.. The only proof I have is that the account was unused for over 2 years.. They have that information.
Back in 95 when I first signed up with Shitlink, two months after i signed up.. login stopped working, so I called up customer service..
The lady said that my wife cancelled the account. I thought to myself, damn thats funny.. I'm not married, too young ot get married. Maybe my mom cancelled it. So I told the lady OK and ended the call. I called my mom and asked her if she cancelled the account. She said, No. So I figures.. ok, they SUCK ALL ASS and signed up with Hooked.Net (which was bought out 3 different times, and now is something like boss technologies or something. My account doesn't work, and there are NOcustomer service numbers on the site.. haven't been billed either, so I could give two shits.. fuck them.)
Fast forward two years, my mom shows me her CC bill and low and behold, a charge from Earthlink. TWO YEARS of billing an account that was "cencelled", so we called them on this, the g33k that we spoke with said he could refund us 2 months, but that's it. I told them to check the account, when was the last time it was used.. they said something like they couldn't do that. Fucking assmonkies..
My other ISP.. Netcom, which I sighed up for in 94, was bought out my Earthlink, so I'm an earthink member once again.. fucking lovely.
Now for DSL I have SBC Internet Services.. Pacific Bell.. No real problems in 2 years.. so I'm happy with that... wish the speed was faster though..
WTF?!? A windows machine up for that long? The most I had EVER was 12 days!! Must have been just a file server or something...
I really wish they would have continued to develop drivers and such for the 3dfx cards... the 3500 its a sweeet card.. TV and Video card and encoder all in one... (i know there are a few of them out now, but why buy something that I already have...)
RedHat Up2Date, what about that? I seem to remember a bug in that app.. here's the text from redhat: [RHBA-2000:081-05] Update Agent`s rhnsd daemon leaks file descriptors (can't seem to find it on RedHat after a quick search)
I really can't recall something like this for windows... something with the DEFAULT INSTALL that will make a windows system unusable after 3 weeks.. (unless you count the XP activation... heh)
At least M$ is fixing problems, maybe not as fast as the oss companies/people, but christ.. None of you guys bash redhat, suse and the like when they release an update for an app that can give you root. I know in the /. eyes M$ is the root of all evil, but you know what, best item/app/os for the job.
/. hypocrites, bring this post to a -1.
I don't care if its a mac/ms/*nix/*BSD or what, but if it gets the job done, relatively well and fast, I will use it.
For programming, i don't care if its VB/C/Glade/Perl/Python whatever.. whatever suits the job best. And yes, sometimes, if not MOST of the time, it's a MS solution (for me at least, YMMV).
And for the record, win win98 installation, which I just reinstalled everything ( 2 days worth of installs and hundreds of reboots ) is showing the same symptoms of the problem for the reinstall, which I'm assuming came from windows-update. So no, I'm not living in a perfect world. At the moment, I'm cursing Billy boys name, but I'm still using Win98 for most of development work and 2 linux machines as servers, since, like I said, best solution for the problem.
So flame away, you
If MS and IBM have copyrights and whatnot on the WEbServies.. which .NET is a BIGASS chunk of... what about Ximian's MONO?
as an exeToys employee... sounds like the eToy/eToys bullsh.t.. fscking stupid lawyers..
fast forward 1 year..."Damn, it SEEMED like a good idea at the time to try and get rid of etoy. Stupid lawyers...."
That was one of MANY stupid mistakes by the head assmonkeys of eToys. And yes, they still owe me 5 grand in pay. Over a YEAR since I was let go.. (along with 700 other people..)
Oh yea.. ext3 sucks ass.
Well M, your "buddy" was LUCKY that his hosting stopped bandwidth at 3 gigs, or /. would have made this guy pay a shitload for bandwidth. I really think /. is too popular for its own good.
It's funny that /. is all about the little guys (M$ vs open source and various other david and goliath stories) and when a little guy does something cool, his site gets /.'ed and either killed, or is paying out the ass to cover hosting bills.
I could care less about karma, so there's the disclaimer.
/. users make the following joke:
......
It's funny.. when an Open Source, Linux, BSD, *nux company is on its way down, everyone is sad and want to support or purchase products to try to keep it going. But any other company and many
Step one: product/service
Step two:
Step three: make money.
If any of these companies had a GOOD, well thought out business plan, they wouldn't be going out of business because they could find a buyer, Sep. 11th really hurt them, or the current economy keeps them from being profitable.
If they had a GOOD service/product that people need, then they will survive. It's the nature of business that some companies will rise and some companies will fall. That's LIFE.
(lets see how quickly my "against the flow thinking" gets me modded down)
Yea, but if you recall, Taco said something along the lines of /. traffic tripling, or atleast getting a lot more traffic than normal.
I don't think that it would be THAT bad, esp. if they cut the quality down on the images..
I might also add that the link is 404 now... /. effect at it's best...
"We kill sites, dead."
I'd run something like this on my machine, but at DSL outbounds speed of 128kb.. or whatever it is.. it would be /. in 1.2 seconds.. heh.
:)
Taco, get on it!
Since /. is charging for subscriptions... how about /. stat mirroring the "cool" sites that get the /. effect and make the "cool" site useless..
/. doesn't use up too much hd space..
I hate it when there's something "cool" in a message, that 1 million other people see, and you try to go to the site and you get broken images everywhere..
Most of us use perl/perlmagick here and it wouldn't be to difficult to create a script that mirrors the site that we want, compress the hell out of the images, and have a new fangled mirror.
Remove the mirror after an hour or two, so
now THAT would be a service that would be worth the subscriptions...
Damn.. just about every post I see is bitching about the ads.. subscruptions.. other sites you can go to..
/. and OSDN are paying for the site.. and they want to have some sort of income for thier time and effort.. what the hell is wrong with that?!
./ Subscriptions. ...
Shut the hell up!
I run a music website, and not I'm NOT going to plug it (/. effect would kill me) that I have been runing since 1998. All of it is out of my pocket. I would love for the site to pay for itself. Congrats Taco! You'll get my $5!
I could also make the joke..
Step one sell
Step two
Step three profit!