2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 and 08 are the years of Linux on the desktop! Wikipedia admins take it up the ass on wheels! 2,100,000 articles and they delete articles like Norman Walsh,Rubbish King of the Jumble, Gay Nigger Associaton of America and Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged series! You nerds fucking discust me! I am an overweight fat bastard with no girlfriend and dropped out of college! I hate slashdot! This is my last post!
I am a former contributor to Wikipedia, making over 10,000 edits before giving up and becoming a vandal. Protection is easy to bypass. The easiest way to bypass it is by registering sleeper accounts, where you create a account, then come back a few days later to vandalize the article. Even better is by making credible edits before going on a vandalism rampage.
Wikipedia's vandalism methods are very ineffective. Wikipedia gets over 200,000 edits a day, around three a second. Even with bots and hundreds of patrollers, lots of vandalism gets through, sometimes for months. The vandals know it, and they make fun of Wikipedia. Like Willy on Wheels, Wik/Gzornenplatz, North Carolina Vandal, etc.
The trouble is Wikipedia is now one of the most visited sites on the web, no thanks to Google bombing which means Wikipedia shows up as the top result for many searches now. Over 60 million edits have been made, a lot of them vandalism. My advice is, get out of Wikipedia as fast as you can, if you are an administrator, resign. Remembmer that many colleges and schools will now fail your assingments for citing Wikipedia. People have been harrased and libeled on Wikipedia. It is only a matter of time before someone really gets hurt.
Wikipedia is basically dangerous. Many of its top editors are ex-usenet trolls. The worst section of all is Userboxes, which were invented by a vandal and is a constant source of vandalism by admins.
Wikipedia, it is not as free as you think. Remember, this is coming from a former editor of over 10,000 edits. I know the system better than many admins do. Type in special:log/block on the Wikipedia address bar to see how much vandalism Wikipedia gets. It has to ban over 5000 accounts/ip addresses a week!
1.Create a new account, make it an insulting user name. 2. Using Mozilla Firefox, middle click random page 50 times. 3. Then, press ctrl-tab, to switch tabs, and press alt-m to go into move mode, repeat for each tab. 4. Then, starting at the beenning, type in gibberish as the move page target, but don't submit yet, go through all the tabs first to "prepare". 5. Then, when ready. Go back to the first tab and press enter to start the vandalism. Then RAPIDLY press ctrl-tab, enter repeatidly to do over 50 page moves is around 10 seconds. 6. Enjoy the chaos.
I maybe a mainly Apple user, but I do dual boot Debian on my G5 and it DOES prompt you to set up your firewall in the install. Same goes for Fedora-ppc. Looks like YOU haven't checked for a long time.
Is that it can't run on Xserves. Not even when Linux is on the xserve, the problem is that Apple uses a propreitery TCP stack in its servers, and must written in apple golden cocoa APIs, which cost 5,000 per developers. It makes me so mad that the Xserve has only a few network applications that cost thousands. I may still use Apple for my G5, but after I discovred this scandal I switched to x86 racks with Linux for my IPSEC and network needs!
So I am a full Swan supporter, and I urge you to trash your XSERVES as soon as possible!
I may be a primarily an G5 user, but I have a beowulf cluster (Not imagining it, this is real) of emachines athlon 64s for my render farm. Their low cost machines means that I can have a lot of power, and I got the equivilent performance of G5s that would cost me $21000 for just $9000 with emachines.
Since they can both run Debian GNU/Linux, I can run my render farm with consistant software. So there you have it, G5s maybe good for single machines, but I haven't got virginia tech's budget, so I saved money with Emachines for my work!
You probably waste money on a 500ml bottle of pepsi in order to have a chance at "winning" a free song while I get a 2 litre bottle for $1.79! Four times the value, for just 0.79 extra, and I can use the $2.29 saved on two itunes songs (better odds than the pepsi) and have 29 change for other stuff!
The "smaller physical size" is not worth it, Its only 0.4" smaller (thats less than a centimetre), Thats not very noticable, and wat if people need to expand in their collection in the futre?
I am keeping with my word, I may be an apple zealot, but I certainly don't waste money on crippled expensive hardware. If it had cost just 100 and could carry about 2000 songs I would probably buy it, but I certainly not going to miss 0.4" and $50 for the cost of 9000 songs!
I own one of those cameras for My g5. It may be more expensive than regular web cameras, but it is a really high quality device. Unfortunatley it dosent work under Linux and Windows, and it is one of the few cameras that work under OSX. Its a shame that apple didn't make it easier for Web cams to work under OSX, but if you can afford it, get it. I have used it to collarberate in developing my Apple Programs with my outsourced team, seeing your developers halfway around the world makes it easier to work with them!
Why use Opie when Y is here! Y is small, fast and free! The ideal replacemnt for X and Opie. 0.2 has just been released and is an exciting system, complete with hardware acceleration, alpha blended widgets and more!
10 Years ago, I worked in a small photo development business as a darkroom technican. Kodak film was 90% of the film we developed, but unlike most film, Kodak film was more expensive to develop because the propreitery technology used in it. Also that year our photo lab had bought a Macintosh running Mac OS 8 to help us manage our film database. Part of the special offer was a 28.8K modem connection and a Gremlin TZ digital camera. This camera could take 640x480 pictures and used a AMC (Now known as firewire) cable to connect to the camera. We were amazed for just the cost of a floppy disk ($0.50) we could take 40 high quality photos instantly!
I was so impressed that I set up a website about our photo service using pictures from my digital camera. I had over 1000 pictures on that site and it was being hosted by a Slackware Linux box with Apache 0.7 and Kernel 0.95 (Yes, the linux dark ages).
We got in contact with Gremlin Technolgies INC and we decided to sell Gremlin Digicams to our customers and for 1/10 of the price of ordianry development we offered our customers prints. The service was so popular that we made $600,000 profits in 1994.
We completly ditched kodak in 1995 and now we are a huge photobusiness that has 40 employees and makes over 1,000,000 in profits a year.
I am no longer an employee as I am now a freelance Debian on Mac technican, but it just goes to show that digital cameras can be a lucrative business if you ditch the analog monoliths!
As much as I love the PowerBook G4 (also waiting for the G5 PB) I would like a OSX based Tablet. Make a stripped down version of OSX (I.E take away some of the Aqua effects, iLife), get a low power processor such an a 300 Mhz 68k (or maybe a 300 mhz G3) processor with 128Mb of RAM and release it, hopefully with Airports and Eo801.11 The one button mouse nature of the Mac would make it easier to port. Sell it for around $1500 and I'd snap it up.
But don't give it a name like Powertab or iBlet, yuck.
Apple will surley make something for 10.4, called iSHELL, complete with anti-alaised fonts, tabbed shells, alpha blending, PRESS F9 and see all your shells at once, and of course support for throbbing Aqua buttons.
As someone who runs Debian Gnu/Linux on thier G5, i can give my view. I can't RTFA because its slashdotted. Keep in mind that "Linux" to the end user often means KDE/GNOME.
First of all, The Aqua GUI can get in the way after a while, and there isn't really a good option to turn it off. KDE lets you terraform the GUI quite a bit. You can emulate the Aqua look with the "Liquid" style, but most KDE distributions use "Keramik" by default. Kermamik uses rounded, gradiented buttons, along with the "Crystal" icon set by deafult, but it can be turned off and switch to more flatter and simpler styles like.net and Plastik. The gnome styles are also quite simple, with Cleanice and Smokey being the simplest. Not to mention that KDE 3.2 and Gnome 2.4 have cleaned up their act, you will never have to touch a text file again. Also the hardware dectection has become top notch excellent. Forget having to edit textfiles, forget about cdroms that don't eject, forget about modprobing, its all automagic now!
Also there are THOUSANDS more apps for linux, in Debian there are 13000(!) different packages, offering a ploethera of software, The new GIMP with a easy GUI and CMYK support, the Fast OpenOffice 1.1, the sleek totem movie player, plus much much more. Not to mention you can run more with Wine, or MacOnLinux if you use a Gx processor.
Mac OS X on the other hand has broken binary compatibillity, fries Firewird disks, Costs $129 per point release, where linux is just a simple click of the "dist upgrade" button.
I am a apple zealot, but I don't like their OS, their OS has gone down hill ever since Mac OS 8. I have ran Linux on them ever since, and after trying MacOS Jaguar and Panther, I'm glad to use Linux.
Disclaimer : Don't get me wrong, I love deiban, I use it on my Apple macs all the time, a user since Potato in 2000.
That we can get some uptodate software in Debian. Even Unstable is out of date. For example, Gnome 2.2, SodiPodi 0.31, OpenOffice 1.0 are still in Debian unstable even though their new versions have been out for MONTHS. Hopefully Debian will get some new maintainers with this amendment.
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2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 and 08 are the years of Linux on the desktop! Wikipedia admins take it up the ass on wheels! 2,100,000 articles and they delete articles like Norman Walsh ,Rubbish King of the Jumble, Gay Nigger Associaton of America and Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged series! You nerds fucking discust me! I am an overweight fat bastard with no girlfriend and dropped out of college! I hate slashdot! This is my last post!
You are all fucking obese nerds who vandalize wikipedia.
I am a former contributor to Wikipedia, making over 10,000 edits before giving up and becoming a vandal. Protection is easy to bypass. The easiest way to bypass it is by registering sleeper accounts, where you create a account, then come back a few days later to vandalize the article. Even better is by making credible edits before going on a vandalism rampage.
Wikipedia's vandalism methods are very ineffective. Wikipedia gets over 200,000 edits a day, around three a second. Even with bots and hundreds of patrollers, lots of vandalism gets through, sometimes for months. The vandals know it, and they make fun of Wikipedia. Like Willy on Wheels, Wik/Gzornenplatz, North Carolina Vandal, etc.
The trouble is Wikipedia is now one of the most visited sites on the web, no thanks to Google bombing which means Wikipedia shows up as the top result for many searches now. Over 60 million edits have been made, a lot of them vandalism. My advice is, get out of Wikipedia as fast as you can, if you are an administrator, resign. Remembmer that many colleges and schools will now fail your assingments for citing Wikipedia. People have been harrased and libeled on Wikipedia. It is only a matter of time before someone really gets hurt.
Wikipedia is basically dangerous. Many of its top editors are ex-usenet trolls. The worst section of all is Userboxes, which were invented by a vandal and is a constant source of vandalism by admins.
Wikipedia, it is not as free as you think. Remember, this is coming from a former editor of over 10,000 edits. I know the system better than many admins do. Type in special:log/block on the Wikipedia address bar to see how much vandalism Wikipedia gets. It has to ban over 5000 accounts/ip addresses a week!
It's very dangerous!
Yep the BSD trolls about BSD is dying are coming true, it is obvious that the ISPs were using BSD, and therefore the internet is dying.
1.Create a new account, make it an insulting user name.
2. Using Mozilla Firefox, middle click random page 50 times.
3. Then, press ctrl-tab, to switch tabs, and press alt-m to go into move mode, repeat for each tab.
4. Then, starting at the beenning, type in gibberish as the move page target, but don't submit yet, go through all the tabs first to "prepare".
5. Then, when ready. Go back to the first tab and press enter to start the vandalism. Then RAPIDLY press ctrl-tab, enter repeatidly to do over 50 page moves is around 10 seconds.
6. Enjoy the chaos.
Willy on Wheels!
I maybe a mainly Apple user, but I do dual boot Debian on my G5 and it DOES prompt you to set up your firewall in the install. Same goes for Fedora-ppc. Looks like YOU haven't checked for a long time.
Dual 2Ghz G5 processors, gigabit connections and a lot of cherry soda means I spam like kings!
Eugenia Loli Queru explains why
The G5 link (which I clicked on because I use one) contains gay porn, so does the today link! Please mod this FILTH down!
Is that it can't run on Xserves. Not even when Linux is on the xserve, the problem is that Apple uses a propreitery TCP stack in its servers, and must written in apple golden cocoa APIs, which cost 5,000 per developers. It makes me so mad that the Xserve has only a few network applications that cost thousands. I may still use Apple for my G5, but after I discovred this scandal I switched to x86 racks with Linux for my IPSEC and network needs!
So I am a full Swan supporter, and I urge you to trash your XSERVES as soon as possible!
I may be a primarily an G5 user, but I have a beowulf cluster (Not imagining it, this is real) of emachines athlon 64s for my render farm. Their low cost machines means that I can have a lot of power, and I got the equivilent performance of G5s that would cost me $21000 for just $9000 with emachines.
Since they can both run Debian GNU/Linux, I can run my render farm with consistant software. So there you have it, G5s maybe good for single machines, but I haven't got virginia tech's budget, so I saved money with Emachines for my work!
You probably waste money on a 500ml bottle of pepsi in order to have a chance at "winning" a free song while I get a 2 litre bottle for $1.79! Four times the value, for just 0.79 extra, and I can use the $2.29 saved on two itunes songs (better odds than the pepsi) and have 29 change for other stuff!
The "smaller physical size" is not worth it, Its only 0.4" smaller (thats less than a centimetre), Thats not very noticable, and wat if people need to expand in their collection in the futre? I am keeping with my word, I may be an apple zealot, but I certainly don't waste money on crippled expensive hardware. If it had cost just 100 and could carry about 2000 songs I would probably buy it, but I certainly not going to miss 0.4" and $50 for the cost of 9000 songs!
For just $50 more (thats like just #30, not much) you get 10 times the space, and is more reliable! I hope that Ipod mini is a flop!
But, just like how Apple sells 0.1 upgrades of OSX for the price of a 1.0 upgrade, Apple seems to be going back to the old days of pay more get less!
I own one of those cameras for My g5. It may be more expensive than regular web cameras, but it is a really high quality device. Unfortunatley it dosent work under Linux and Windows, and it is one of the few cameras that work under OSX. Its a shame that apple didn't make it easier for Web cams to work under OSX, but if you can afford it, get it. I have used it to collarberate in developing my Apple Programs with my outsourced team, seeing your developers halfway around the world makes it easier to work with them!
Y is similar to opie. So why is it off topic?
Why use Opie when Y is here! Y is small, fast and free! The ideal replacemnt for X and Opie. 0.2 has just been released and is an exciting system, complete with hardware acceleration, alpha blended widgets and more!
Get Y!
10 Years ago, I worked in a small photo development business as a darkroom technican. Kodak film was 90% of the film we developed, but unlike most film, Kodak film was more expensive to develop because the propreitery technology used in it. Also that year our photo lab had bought a Macintosh running Mac OS 8 to help us manage our film database. Part of the special offer was a 28.8K modem connection and a Gremlin TZ digital camera. This camera could take 640x480 pictures and used a AMC (Now known as firewire) cable to connect to the camera. We were amazed for just the cost of a floppy disk ($0.50) we could take 40 high quality photos instantly!
I was so impressed that I set up a website about our photo service using pictures from my digital camera. I had over 1000 pictures on that site and it was being hosted by a Slackware Linux box with Apache 0.7 and Kernel 0.95 (Yes, the linux dark ages).
We got in contact with Gremlin Technolgies INC and we decided to sell Gremlin Digicams to our customers and for 1/10 of the price of ordianry development we offered our customers prints. The service was so popular that we made $600,000 profits in 1994.
We completly ditched kodak in 1995 and now we are a huge photobusiness that has 40 employees and makes over 1,000,000 in profits a year.
I am no longer an employee as I am now a freelance Debian on Mac technican, but it just goes to show that digital cameras can be a lucrative business if you ditch the analog monoliths!
Freaking shit, why does every operating system want to do that! Time to go back up to PC world..
As much as I love the PowerBook G4 (also waiting for the G5 PB) I would like a OSX based Tablet. Make a stripped down version of OSX (I.E take away some of the Aqua effects, iLife), get a low power processor such an a 300 Mhz 68k (or maybe a 300 mhz G3) processor with 128Mb of RAM and release it, hopefully with Airports and Eo801.11 The one button mouse nature of the Mac would make it easier to port. Sell it for around $1500 and I'd snap it up. But don't give it a name like Powertab or iBlet, yuck.
I fried my external LG-CDROM connected to my G5 (running Debian, also happened with Yellow Dog)
Apple will surley make something for 10.4, called iSHELL, complete with anti-alaised fonts, tabbed shells, alpha blending, PRESS F9 and see all your shells at once, and of course support for throbbing Aqua buttons.
As someone who runs Debian Gnu/Linux on thier G5, i can give my view. I can't RTFA because its slashdotted. Keep in mind that "Linux" to the end user often means KDE/GNOME.
.net and Plastik. The gnome styles are also quite simple, with Cleanice and Smokey being the simplest. Not to mention that KDE 3.2 and Gnome 2.4 have cleaned up their act, you will never have to touch a text file again. Also the hardware dectection has become top notch excellent. Forget having to edit textfiles, forget about cdroms that don't eject, forget about modprobing, its all automagic now!
First of all, The Aqua GUI can get in the way after a while, and there isn't really a good option to turn it off. KDE lets you terraform the GUI quite a bit. You can emulate the Aqua look with the "Liquid" style, but most KDE distributions use "Keramik" by default. Kermamik uses rounded, gradiented buttons, along with the "Crystal" icon set by deafult, but it can be turned off and switch to more flatter and simpler styles like
Also there are THOUSANDS more apps for linux, in Debian there are 13000(!) different packages, offering a ploethera of software, The new GIMP with a easy GUI and CMYK support, the Fast OpenOffice 1.1, the sleek totem movie player, plus much much more. Not to mention you can run more with Wine, or MacOnLinux if you use a Gx processor.
Mac OS X on the other hand has broken binary compatibillity, fries Firewird disks, Costs $129 per point release, where linux is just a simple click of the "dist upgrade" button.
I am a apple zealot, but I don't like their OS, their OS has gone down hill ever since Mac OS 8. I have ran Linux on them ever since, and after trying MacOS Jaguar and Panther, I'm glad to use Linux.
Disclaimer : Don't get me wrong, I love deiban, I use it on my Apple macs all the time, a user since Potato in 2000. That we can get some uptodate software in Debian. Even Unstable is out of date. For example, Gnome 2.2, SodiPodi 0.31, OpenOffice 1.0 are still in Debian unstable even though their new versions have been out for MONTHS. Hopefully Debian will get some new maintainers with this amendment.