Isp's should only distribute software that could not compromise the security and performance of their networks.
Unfortunately, this means that software for Microsoft operating systems is right out. They will not ever do this, however, as the largest market share of consumer operating systems is Microsoft.
Ideally, all ISP's that provide software (or at least, programs to their clients) should provide said software through a web based interface, using the accepted W3C standards. They don't, hence the security surrounding all existing proprietery software systems, and the issues surrounding that. 'Quelle suprise'.
You were right - it was a really dumb response to a really dumb question.
But thats the pleasure of slashdot, a place where you can meet other people interested in the same topics as who, who don't have a clue, and certainly can't offer one.
> I work for an isp that does mainly dsl and dialup service.
> As far as software goes, we'll support anything, but most
> people are running Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.
> 98% of my software calls are these two programs.
Jesus, Occupational parallel - I work in the animal porn industry, and the weird thing is, of all the porn phone adline adverts that work,
98% are related to animal husbandry and bedding!
Which kind of hints that we could cross-fertilise the
IT-industry by bringing in compulsory stock breeding, and neutering.
Let me know if you've got some IT staff who don't 'fit the profile' and me and a couple of friends will come round to your 'open-plan-office' with a couple of house bricks and smash his 'generational-plans' into thin air.
There will of course be a charge. 200 volts through you so I can get hold of your cheque book.
Don't just have spyware, also bundle in some app that randomly subscribes the client to porn subscription mailing lists, making sure their homepage is something special.
OOOO - also help them along in their internet conquest by setting their default media player to notepad for all REAL and ASF content. That should get them going (or at least get their CPU going).
Maybe also give them the choice of 'lots of popups" or "a fuck load of popups".
Man, when I was up in Paris with the girlfriend, I had the 'really have to go now' dogs egg feeling. It was around christmas, so not much was open. Apart of course, from McDonalds.
So in I pop, ready to go for my McShit. Acosted by one of the cleaners in there, I started yabbering on about how yes, I will really buy one of your rancid burgers in a minute.
Thats right, I went for a McShit with Lies!
Mr Thinly Sliced
Other News: CmdrTaco and Jamie ARE OUT!
on
Xfree86 4.2.0 Out
·
· Score: -1, Offtopic
I submitted this as a story, and it got rejected, so I'll post it here for you:
2002-01-19 03:38:35 CmdrTaco and Jamie ARE OUT (lemonentry,mydearwatson) (rejected)
They finally admitted their love of all things iraqi like:
A spokesman for andover.legover.net said "Its been a trying year for the slashdot crew, but finally CmdrWacko and Flamie have decided to bed down publically with Homos".
Insightfull, is posting details of how you've acheived cold fusion in a sock.
Repeating all the wank about the crap flooders and trolls only qualifies as redundant.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Mr Poopy Pants.
Was up there with the +1 posting before all this rabid mod-down bollocks from our gods happened. Now I don't give a flying turds christmas bonus for karma.
It's so liberating. It's like finally coming to terms with mutual masterbation at slashdot headquarters.
Another four or five of these posts should sort my karma out though.
Some of the idiots on here take it all way to seriously. Me, I had an epipthany, and now hope to waste my time on here posting offensive stuff in the hope that one day, I too, can offend as many people as possible. I'll need to work on my racism, or sexism, but I do love a good homo joke. And stuff about Hitler, thats always good for a gas. And the yanks, well I hate the yanks, I much prefer a long, smooth wank.
Oops.
I've said too much. Room on trolltalk for one more?
You're all a bunch of heterosexually frustrated taco worshippers.
All of this was foretold in the proficies of Nostrodamus.
In the immortal words of his final parable "Never count your blessings with haste / Even a prophet can catch a case".
We can all take solace in the knowledge, mentioned earlier in his works that "I'm a wild barbarian... Felonious / My description is doo rag pants sag down to my feet".
Read children, read and then reflect on what it meant to you. And then remember, remember where you were on 10:29, January 16th 2002.
Do not cry, but rejoice that change is coming, like I am right now over alt.binaries.erotica.redheads.
Mr Thinly Sliced
(For anyone who does't see the parent post, its an entire thread that got bitchslapped down to -1 by the editorial staff of/.)
It seems that they like to have full editorial control which really seems to be the pot calling the kettle black doesn't it. Check Jamies page out where he cries about how the movie press promote what they have an interest in, and discount what they don't.
Time for me to turn into a troll I guess. All the funs gone out of posting on here now.
Hell yeah, I got bitchslapped in that thread too, so I figure, cmon editors, get bitchslapping this thread down, you've got nothing better to do, and lets face it, I've got nothing better to do either.
Slashdot Mirror
Dammit fecal. So close, and yet so fart. Don't ask why the whole word isn't in italics, cos only the postman knows.
You do this again, and I'm coming round your house and filling the toaster with "compromising house safety no 1" pop-tarts.
And they don't come cheap. Unlike me. The girlfriend made me write that bit.
But that, I think, is the canadian love of all thinks with a sharp end.
Nothing wrong with that, mind you, but always be sure to have a qualified medik on hand for when the 'hand goes too far'
I've heard.
We shall always need large artichokes up our asses.
Stops the french having their way with us.
It has to be the sausage egg and chips machine that can churn out portions of our god-endorsed national diet every 5 seconds.
Imagine how this would revolutionise modern food process management as we see it today.
You walk into a food-store and say 'I'd like something thats convincingly healthly whilst still having the fat content of a small car' - they go sure
CLUNK CLUNK
Out pops the sausage egg and chip life saving meal.
Stupendous.
Isp's should only distribute software that could not compromise the security and performance of their networks.
Unfortunately, this means that software for Microsoft operating systems is right out. They will not ever do this, however, as the largest market share of consumer operating systems is Microsoft.
Ideally, all ISP's that provide software (or at least, programs to their clients) should provide said software through a web based interface, using the accepted W3C standards. They don't, hence the security surrounding all existing proprietery software systems, and the issues surrounding that. 'Quelle suprise'.
You were right - it was a really dumb response to a really dumb question.
But thats the pleasure of slashdot, a place where you can meet other people interested in the same topics as who, who don't have a clue, and certainly can't offer one.
Full marks
> As far as software goes, we'll support anything, but most
> people are running Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.
> 98% of my software calls are these two programs.
Jesus, Occupational parallel - I work in the animal porn industry, and the weird thing is, of all the porn phone adline adverts that work,
98% are related to animal husbandry and bedding!
Which kind of hints that we could cross-fertilise the IT-industry by bringing in compulsory stock breeding, and neutering.
Let me know if you've got some IT staff who don't 'fit the profile' and me and a couple of friends will come round to your 'open-plan-office' with a couple of house bricks and smash his 'generational-plans' into thin air.
There will of course be a charge. 200 volts through you so I can get hold of your cheque book.
O Well, theres me banned again. hehe.
Don't just have spyware, also bundle in some app that randomly subscribes the client to porn subscription mailing lists, making sure their homepage is something special.
OOOO - also help them along in their internet conquest by setting their default media player to notepad for all REAL and ASF content. That should get them going (or at least get their CPU going).
Maybe also give them the choice of 'lots of popups" or "a fuck load of popups".
Sir, we are now coming in to land at Earth. Please ensure your seat back tray is in the upright and locked position.
Thanks for travelling 'naivety-earth-express'.
So in I pop, ready to go for my McShit. Acosted by one of the cleaners in there, I started yabbering on about how yes, I will really buy one of your rancid burgers in a minute.
Thats right, I went for a McShit with Lies!
Mr Thinly Sliced
I submitted this as a story, and it got rejected, so I'll post it here for you:
2002-01-19 03:38:35 CmdrTaco and Jamie ARE OUT (lemonentry,mydearwatson) (rejected)
They finally admitted their love of all things iraqi like:
http://iraqis.org/bomb.
A spokesman for andover.legover.net said "Its been a trying year for the slashdot crew, but finally CmdrWacko and Flamie have decided to bed down publically with Homos".
You read it here first.
Insightfull, is posting details of how you've acheived cold fusion in a sock. Repeating all the wank about the crap flooders and trolls only qualifies as redundant. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Mr Poopy Pants.
To be fair, that could also apply to your post, mr poopy pants
Me is climbing down the karma rapidly.
Was up there with the +1 posting before all this rabid mod-down bollocks from our gods happened. Now I don't give a flying turds christmas bonus for karma.
It's so liberating. It's like finally coming to terms with mutual masterbation at slashdot headquarters.
Another four or five of these posts should sort my karma out though.
Expertly put, big ass spork.
Some of the idiots on here take it all way to seriously. Me, I had an epipthany, and now hope to waste my time on here posting offensive stuff in the hope that one day, I too, can offend as many people as possible. I'll need to work on my racism, or sexism, but I do love a good homo joke. And stuff about Hitler, thats always good for a gas. And the yanks, well I hate the yanks, I much prefer a long, smooth wank.
Oops.
I've said too much. Room on trolltalk for one more?
You're all a bunch of heterosexually frustrated taco worshippers.
Mr Thinly Sliced.
Man I'm gutted you got in there. I was hoping babies first troll would be a first post too. Mum and dad would be so proud.
Ah well.
In the immortal words of his final parable "Never count your blessings with haste / Even a prophet can catch a case".
We can all take solace in the knowledge, mentioned earlier in his works that "I'm a wild barbarian... Felonious / My description is doo rag pants sag down to my feet".
Read children, read and then reflect on what it meant to you. And then remember, remember where you were on 10:29, January 16th 2002.
Do not cry, but rejoice that change is coming, like I am right now over alt.binaries.erotica.redheads. Mr Thinly Sliced
If you still having trouble with it,this google item might provide some more examples of configuration.
did you try:
interface ethernet0/1 ipaddress DHCP
You might also need a command to 'refresh' and lease the address. Setting the interface to DHCP might not automatically request a new IP.
Didn't mean to say you didn't have one mate, I said get _on_ with life. No offence intended.
.-)
I know its dissapointing. Its also really tempting to go 'troll'
Hey man, don't worry about it. Find a new news site, read a paper, spend some time with family, friends. Maybe do some work :-)
Get on with life. Its too short.
Mr Thinly Sliced.
Seems that Kuro5hin have noticed the bitchslapping moderation going on in slashdot in this thread. Its now on their front page.
Heres how much moderation was wasted trying to stop people viewing one post.
Offtopic=75, Flamebait=1, Troll=3, Redundant=2, Insightful=15, Interesting=51, Informative=14, Funny=2, Overrated=2, Underrated=6, Total=171.
All the other posts in the thread got bitchslapped down to -1 too, ~230 at my last count.
Way to go slashdot! Seems the moderation thing is working out a treat! Shoulda listened to signal11 Taco.
Mr Thinly Sliced
(For anyone who does't see the parent post, its an entire thread that got bitchslapped down to -1 by the editorial staff of /.)
It seems that they like to have full editorial control which really seems to be the pot calling the kettle black doesn't it. Check Jamies page out where he cries about how the movie press promote what they have an interest in, and discount what they don't.
Time for me to turn into a troll I guess. All the funs gone out of posting on here now.
Mr Thinly Sliced
Hell yeah, I got bitchslapped in that thread too, so I figure, cmon editors, get bitchslapping this thread down, you've got nothing better to do, and lets face it, I've got nothing better to do either.
Mr Thinly Sliced.
This is an extract from the ie.c file that I managed to pilfer during that source code steal from Microsoft year before last. Revealing it is.
The lameness filter won't let me post it, so I'm linking to it instead.
Of particular interest is the peer review process, ensuring quality standards, and upping the end user experience.