Memory was the primary thing stopping me from getting one of these. It seems like 512MB of RAM is the magic number for good performance in modern operating systems.
I just want to throw my hat into the ring regarding Ubuntu - I installed it on my (unimpressive) 1.8GHz laptop with 512MB of RAM last week and have been extremely impressed with its usability, performance, and just plain prettiness (though I will note that the prettiness is largely a function of x.org and GNOME). I'll be using this Linux installation for real-time scheduler experiments so it's not terribly important how good the user experience is, but nevertheless, the overall experience with the distro is leading me to possibly install it on my desktop at home.
One niggling peeve: No good wireless sniffer packages appear to be included in the default package list (correct me if I'm wrong). Guess I'm gonna have to install Kismet and gkismet myself.
Also, this post is a test to see if that crazy loon apk is still stalking me.
You're not fooling anyone. You never have. Your first reply to me was OBVIOUSLY the "anonymous" comment directly under my first reply to you; no one writes in that sentence-by-sentence stream-of-consciousness way. You're a lunatic. Whether or not I have written programs (and I haven't written anything of note! nope! end of discussion!) has no bearing on my ability to observe your behavior and judge it abnormal.
The original test of your character here was to see how you responded to me calling you out as a liar (something that is essentially undisputed by anyone who counts). You could have chosen to say "I don't flamewar anymore," or "I don't bother with that kind of crap anymore," or any number of way classier responses than the endless stream you direct out of your fingers to the keyboard from/dev/random.
Stop making up supporters for yourself, try being a good person, and above all learn how to let things go.
Maybe someday if you can learn how to express yourself in ways that don't involve tearing other people and their opinions down, I'll be able to say "boy, that Kowalski, he really turned himself around and into an asset to the computing community." That day is not today.
Stop being obsessed with "destroying" people online and try focusing on actually HELPING.
do you think ANYONE cares about your "discipline?"
It's words on a page, Alex. None of any of this means anything, a fact you must be acutely aware of since you enjoy masquerading as your own supporters. You claim to be "teaching me a lesson in humility." Consider that I may never learn the lesson you are trying to teach. Why, then, do you persist?
You are indisputably my elder, but your concept of "better" fascinates me. What makes one man intrinsically better than another?
My goodness you make a fascinating case study.
P.S. Moderation on Slashdot means nothing. I would not be at all surprised if you kept a number of logged-in accounts whose posts you valiantly struggled not to "sign," and after collecting enough karma with them to get mod points, modded me down. It would be precisely your modus operandi.
Also, you can't get a -2 rating on Slashdot. That's a nice try, though.
"STUDENT BOY"
You really are out of your mind. A shrink would have a field day with your inferiority complexes.
Ask yourself this: if it is so easy to disprove what I am saying (and by the way, what AM I saying? what is my primary argument? Hm?), why do you feel the need to dump rant after insane rant on everything I post in reply to you? If you've already "won" - and one of the things I am trying to demonstrate to you is that it doesn't matter who "wins" an argument on THE INTERNET, for GOD'S SAKE - then why are you compelled to dump pages upon pages of repetitive text on me over and over?
It's because there's something wrong with you, Alex. Very, very wrong.
... between useless karma points and useless ratings on ZDNet?
The reason I mentioned Jeremy and Jay is because a simple Google search on your name turns up tens of hits regarding people who despise you and wish there was a court order requiring you to never be connected to the internet again.
Hey, what kind of English is this? "You just need to grow up, & learn 1 thing: "Brick not hit back" but, apk do!"
Speaking of English, you're sure one to talk about profanity, aren't you? Nice bit of anti-Semitism on you, too. Don't you just hate it when your past catches up with you?
(Oh, and please don't try to tell me how terrible my past is - I have Excellent karma, thanks very much)
I also find the fact that you consider the word "student" to be a pejorative to be a sad commentary on the history of your life.
Didn't do so well in school, did you? Barely squeaked out passing grades? Became embittered at the fact that your professors didn't think you were anywhere near as brilliant as you thought you were? A sad, but all-too-common story. You're not special, Alex. There's lots of people out there like you (academically, at least - your particular combination of poor academic performance and narcissistic personality disorder is quite unique, I'd say).
You make mention many times of how I'm "paying the price" or "being destroyed" or "reaping what I sow" or etc. etc. yadda yadda ad infinitum et nauseum.
Er... what exactly is HAPPENING to me here? Are you sawing off my legs and somehow I'm not noticing? I have to tell you I really don't feel any different (other than extremely amused).
And finally, something about you that truly, truly bothers me is that you actually think people have "betters." Must tie in with your anti-Semitism problem. Again, I implore you - seek help.
Moderators cannot see any personal information about anyone on this system. That is not the way the moderation system works. Mods are chosen at random from the set of users with positive karma (like myself, as opposed to you with no karma) and rate posts according to how they feel about their usefulness.
Also, I'm not Jeremy Reimer, but you can keep thinking that about me if you like.
Is it possible to get a SHORT post out of you that doesn't involve you cutting and pasting what you said over and over again?
Anyway, I gotta run to go talk to my advisor; I think I have a good lead on an EDF scheduler to use for this project.
we should make a distinction between "getting run off like a bad dog" (as you said of Mr. Reimer) and "getting bored with navigating through 3 feet of APK insanity."
Also, I answered your question in the negative, and stated that it was more or less irrelevant, a couple posts back. I leave it as an exercise to you to find it.
Who's running? Not me. I couldn't care less where you work or what IT applications you've worked on, to be quite honest. I have a hard time believing you've done what you've said you've done, if only because you've been known to lie in the past (and the posing-as-other-people thing REALLY detracts from your credibility).
If you actually have done what you said you have, bravo, honestly - but your behavior takes away any possible respect I would have for you about it.
That's the truly sad part - maybe you could be a productive member of an online community only on the merits of your experience and knowledge, but your narcissistic personality disorder prevents you from being taken seriously or communicating your ideas in a useful way.
Get help, APK, before you die lonely and twitching at a keyboard, firing off one last flame++2035 v6.9 SR71.
None of that was peer-reviewed conference or journal writing, it was random unrefereed text posted on a web site. I could do that quite easily if my time wasn't usually taken up in research (tonight I can spare a few minutes to laugh at you).
Research is not glamorous; this much is true. Most of the time, anyway. It's the results that you get from it that are what's really worthwhile.
This has gotten boring. You're repeating yourself again. I note you still didn't actually rebut anything I said about RT systems, btw.
You don't "eat full Ph.D.s for lunch." Your employers tolerate you because you're an experienced programmer for the work you're doing. The people you "destroy" either get angry at your foolishness or sit there and roll their eyes at you, perhaps pausing to check their watches to see how long you can rant.
"You're nothing in this field, & never will be, paduan learner. You talk the "jedi talk" but show us, walk the "Sith Lord WALK", ok?"...
No one cares about whether or not someone says "crap" or even "fuck." Language is a tool, like a Swiss Army knife, and sometimes it is amusing or an expedient to use the toothed sawblade of vulgarity to express yourself.
You, on the other hand, are TERRIBLE at expressing yourself. You repeat yourself ad infinitum and believe it amplifies your "points." You can't organize thoughts. You don't know the meaning of the word "paragraph." You claim "victory" in "wars" in which you are the only combatant and everyone else sits by and watches you flail and slash at the air.
As for your all-important question, "What have you ever written that others can use in the way of programs featured @ websites online that have done well over time?"
Answer: Nothing! Yay! You apparently believe that is a testament to your superiority as a computer scientist and human being. I do not. I feel there are other metrics of a person's worth and intelligence, such as how well they can compose their thoughts into words.
I would *love* to see a publication written by Alexander Peter Kowalsky. Please, Alex. PLEASE write a paper and submit it to a conference. You need the drain on your ego desperately.
Here is an example of a software system produced by the academics you love to deride. If you ever produce something of even slightly comparable quality or utility, get back to me and I'll be properly chastened.
(Hint: Comments on ZDNet do not a high-quality piece of software make)
And yes, I DO know more than you about real-time systems, especially with respect to real-time scheduling. What do YOU know about real-time scheduling, Alexander?
Also, anyone who was even remotely secure in their own abilities would not feel it necessary to engage in calling someone "boy," "beneath their notice," "master of profanity," (what the hell?) "easy meat," "greenie/noob/student," etc. etc.
You must be overcompensating for SOMETHING. I wonder what it is?
Also, I'll have published at least two technical reports by the end of the year, one on a security audit of a cooperative storage pool and the other on a real-time scheduling algorithm. The latter may be presented at a conference; we'll have to see how far we get with it.
I have to say I find it highly amusing that your sole metric of whether or not someone is successful in the field of computer science is whether or not they have created an artifact of software that people download from a consumer website.
That must have wasted an enormous amount of your time, opening up with both barrels of insanity on me like that.
Hey, here's a good one.
"APK: "Thanks for the ammunition I suppose, this will help my attorney alot, Ken "Caesar" Fisher"
The New York Bar lists three attorneys named Ken Fisher. Which one is yours so I can call him and ask him if he really represents you. You ARE aware that it's illegal to file false charges, aren't you?"
HAHAHAHAHA
Nice job at barratry there, pal!
Man, reading through the rest of this WindowsITPro article it sure looks like you spammed the hell out of their comments system. Pages upon pages of fake 3rd-party posts by people who don't exist that you made up to support you. Did you ever actually register as a user there? I can't find anything posted by "APK," just page after page of anonymous posts. Is this because you were worried about getting banned?
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
I LOVE that you finally invaded Slashdot. I can't wait for the REAL trolls (I am but a padawan, as you say) to get to you.
Why do you do this third-person "ROFLOMG APK SURE SHOWED YOU" thing? Perhaps it's because everyone sees that you are a raving lunatic and no real people will back you up, so you have to make people up?
I note you didn't actually address anything I said about RT systems, either.
(Also, I actually spent three years as a field service engineer for Fujifilm before returning to school to get my Ph.D. [got bored], but I'm sure your thirteen years of flipping registry entries and designing alarm clocks in Delphi is far superior to that)
It doesn't look like anyone thinks you slapped anyone else down, either. In fact just about everyone at WITPro seems to think you're a 50-amp power tool.
"APK manages to create the impression that MR just didn't know why this could be a problem, until he was rescued by APK's superior knowledge. But there's no actual evidence of any of this, it's just innuendo."
That seems to be your M.O. most of the time, doesn't it?
Real-time is about timeliness, NOT speed. Speed can support the goal of timeliness, but often in real-time systems (especially embedded ones) the hardware you're working with is in fact *not* faster (or even as fast as) your standard consumer desktop. Think the processing hardware for, say, the guidance system of a missile. You wouldn't want to run Windows Vista on that, trust me.
(Of course, this might be a bad example because depending on the implementation, there might not be any operating system AT ALL)
Are you going to chase me down and reply with vitriol to every comment I post? Finally! A reason to read/. again!
I'm not trying to hide the fact that I have no respect for you whatsoever. If I gave the impression that I did, my apologies.
In point of fact, I am a doctoral student in computer engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and this coming semester I will be implementing a real-time (m,k)-type scheduler which uses smart i/o-bound job dropping to achieve better power management. We'll be investigating the prospect of dynamically scheduling by looking at the i/o usage history of processes and projecting that usage into future predictions of i/o behavior. In this way we can drop jobs which occur in-between i/o-bound jobs, push them together and eliminate the overhead of switching i/o devices off and back on again (rather than dropping them just based on plain (m,k)-firm constraints).
However, none of this was about me, really - it was more about me GREATLY enjoying trolling the hell out of you because you're an imbecile who enjoys belittling others. Don't think we forgot why you were banned - and it's clear you haven't changed. The 3rd-person mockery post proved that. It must have been a significant effort to restrain yourself from putting "apk" at the end of every sentence.
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The funny thing is, it's even almost all true and accurate.
It's a standard x86 PC with a Wacom tablet built in. There are no magic wismos here.
Memory was the primary thing stopping me from getting one of these. It seems like 512MB of RAM is the magic number for good performance in modern operating systems.
Now I just hope I can buy one.
I just want to throw my hat into the ring regarding Ubuntu - I installed it on my (unimpressive) 1.8GHz laptop with 512MB of RAM last week and have been extremely impressed with its usability, performance, and just plain prettiness (though I will note that the prettiness is largely a function of x.org and GNOME). I'll be using this Linux installation for real-time scheduler experiments so it's not terribly important how good the user experience is, but nevertheless, the overall experience with the distro is leading me to possibly install it on my desktop at home.
One niggling peeve: No good wireless sniffer packages appear to be included in the default package list (correct me if I'm wrong). Guess I'm gonna have to install Kismet and gkismet myself.
Also, this post is a test to see if that crazy loon apk is still stalking me.
You lose.
You're not fooling anyone. You never have. Your first reply to me was OBVIOUSLY the "anonymous" comment directly under my first reply to you; no one writes in that sentence-by-sentence stream-of-consciousness way. You're a lunatic. Whether or not I have written programs (and I haven't written anything of note! nope! end of discussion!) has no bearing on my ability to observe your behavior and judge it abnormal.
/dev/random.
The original test of your character here was to see how you responded to me calling you out as a liar (something that is essentially undisputed by anyone who counts). You could have chosen to say "I don't flamewar anymore," or "I don't bother with that kind of crap anymore," or any number of way classier responses than the endless stream you direct out of your fingers to the keyboard from
Stop making up supporters for yourself, try being a good person, and above all learn how to let things go.
Maybe someday if you can learn how to express yourself in ways that don't involve tearing other people and their opinions down, I'll be able to say "boy, that Kowalski, he really turned himself around and into an asset to the computing community." That day is not today.
Stop being obsessed with "destroying" people online and try focusing on actually HELPING.
do you think ANYONE cares about your "discipline?"
It's words on a page, Alex. None of any of this means anything, a fact you must be acutely aware of since you enjoy masquerading as your own supporters. You claim to be "teaching me a lesson in humility." Consider that I may never learn the lesson you are trying to teach. Why, then, do you persist?
You are indisputably my elder, but your concept of "better" fascinates me. What makes one man intrinsically better than another?
My goodness you make a fascinating case study.
P.S. Moderation on Slashdot means nothing. I would not be at all surprised if you kept a number of logged-in accounts whose posts you valiantly struggled not to "sign," and after collecting enough karma with them to get mod points, modded me down. It would be precisely your modus operandi.
You lose at the internet, APK.
Also, you can't get a -2 rating on Slashdot. That's a nice try, though.
"STUDENT BOY"
You really are out of your mind. A shrink would have a field day with your inferiority complexes.
Ask yourself this: if it is so easy to disprove what I am saying (and by the way, what AM I saying? what is my primary argument? Hm?), why do you feel the need to dump rant after insane rant on everything I post in reply to you? If you've already "won" - and one of the things I am trying to demonstrate to you is that it doesn't matter who "wins" an argument on THE INTERNET, for GOD'S SAKE - then why are you compelled to dump pages upon pages of repetitive text on me over and over?
It's because there's something wrong with you, Alex. Very, very wrong.
You're getting even more bored with spewing your psychotic babble than I am responding to it!
Game, set, match.
Posting without punctuation and carriage returns is a neat trick, but your writing style and verbiage still shows through.
I just don't care enough to keep posting this crap, sorry. I was busy having sex with a beautiful woman all weekend.
... between useless karma points and useless ratings on ZDNet?
The reason I mentioned Jeremy and Jay is because a simple Google search on your name turns up tens of hits regarding people who despise you and wish there was a court order requiring you to never be connected to the internet again.
Hey, what kind of English is this? "You just need to grow up, & learn 1 thing: "Brick not hit back" but, apk do!"
Speaking of English, you're sure one to talk about profanity, aren't you? Nice bit of anti-Semitism on you, too. Don't you just hate it when your past catches up with you?
(Oh, and please don't try to tell me how terrible my past is - I have Excellent karma, thanks very much)
I also find the fact that you consider the word "student" to be a pejorative to be a sad commentary on the history of your life.
Didn't do so well in school, did you? Barely squeaked out passing grades? Became embittered at the fact that your professors didn't think you were anywhere near as brilliant as you thought you were? A sad, but all-too-common story. You're not special, Alex. There's lots of people out there like you (academically, at least - your particular combination of poor academic performance and narcissistic personality disorder is quite unique, I'd say).
You make mention many times of how I'm "paying the price" or "being destroyed" or "reaping what I sow" or etc. etc. yadda yadda ad infinitum et nauseum.
Er... what exactly is HAPPENING to me here? Are you sawing off my legs and somehow I'm not noticing? I have to tell you I really don't feel any different (other than extremely amused).
And finally, something about you that truly, truly bothers me is that you actually think people have "betters." Must tie in with your anti-Semitism problem. Again, I implore you - seek help.
Moderators cannot see any personal information about anyone on this system. That is not the way the moderation system works. Mods are chosen at random from the set of users with positive karma (like myself, as opposed to you with no karma) and rate posts according to how they feel about their usefulness.
Also, I'm not Jeremy Reimer, but you can keep thinking that about me if you like.
Is it possible to get a SHORT post out of you that doesn't involve you cutting and pasting what you said over and over again?
Anyway, I gotta run to go talk to my advisor; I think I have a good lead on an EDF scheduler to use for this project.
Sham on, APK. Sham on.
we should make a distinction between "getting run off like a bad dog" (as you said of Mr. Reimer) and "getting bored with navigating through 3 feet of APK insanity."
Also, I answered your question in the negative, and stated that it was more or less irrelevant, a couple posts back. I leave it as an exercise to you to find it.
that they haven't taken.
Who's running? Not me. I couldn't care less where you work or what IT applications you've worked on, to be quite honest. I have a hard time believing you've done what you've said you've done, if only because you've been known to lie in the past (and the posing-as-other-people thing REALLY detracts from your credibility).
If you actually have done what you said you have, bravo, honestly - but your behavior takes away any possible respect I would have for you about it.
That's the truly sad part - maybe you could be a productive member of an online community only on the merits of your experience and knowledge, but your narcissistic personality disorder prevents you from being taken seriously or communicating your ideas in a useful way.
Get help, APK, before you die lonely and twitching at a keyboard, firing off one last flame++2035 v6.9 SR71.
None of that was peer-reviewed conference or journal writing, it was random unrefereed text posted on a web site. I could do that quite easily if my time wasn't usually taken up in research (tonight I can spare a few minutes to laugh at you).
...
Research is not glamorous; this much is true. Most of the time, anyway. It's the results that you get from it that are what's really worthwhile.
This has gotten boring. You're repeating yourself again. I note you still didn't actually rebut anything I said about RT systems, btw.
You don't "eat full Ph.D.s for lunch." Your employers tolerate you because you're an experienced programmer for the work you're doing. The people you "destroy" either get angry at your foolishness or sit there and roll their eyes at you, perhaps pausing to check their watches to see how long you can rant.
"You're nothing in this field, & never will be, paduan learner. You talk the "jedi talk" but show us, walk the "Sith Lord WALK", ok?"
APK, really.
Who writes your dialogue?
My reply to your lunacy is in the original thread.
No one cares about whether or not someone says "crap" or even "fuck." Language is a tool, like a Swiss Army knife, and sometimes it is amusing or an expedient to use the toothed sawblade of vulgarity to express yourself.
You, on the other hand, are TERRIBLE at expressing yourself. You repeat yourself ad infinitum and believe it amplifies your "points." You can't organize thoughts. You don't know the meaning of the word "paragraph." You claim "victory" in "wars" in which you are the only combatant and everyone else sits by and watches you flail and slash at the air.
As for your all-important question, "What have you ever written that others can use in the way of programs featured @ websites online that have done well over time?"
Answer: Nothing! Yay! You apparently believe that is a testament to your superiority as a computer scientist and human being. I do not. I feel there are other metrics of a person's worth and intelligence, such as how well they can compose their thoughts into words.
I would *love* to see a publication written by Alexander Peter Kowalsky. Please, Alex. PLEASE write a paper and submit it to a conference. You need the drain on your ego desperately.
Here is an example of a software system produced by the academics you love to deride. If you ever produce something of even slightly comparable quality or utility, get back to me and I'll be properly chastened.
(Hint: Comments on ZDNet do not a high-quality piece of software make)
Why is this all so important to you?
And ask yourself the following question: Why do you think you are the only "pro" I feel the need to "attack?"
Also, what is this "profanity artist" crap?
I note the "usual Ars Technica style" seems to include OSY and WITPro as well. Gee. I wonder why that is.
You are a very, very sad little midlife crisis, aren't you?
I'm 26, dumbass.
And yes, I DO know more than you about real-time systems, especially with respect to real-time scheduling. What do YOU know about real-time scheduling, Alexander?
Also, anyone who was even remotely secure in their own abilities would not feel it necessary to engage in calling someone "boy," "beneath their notice," "master of profanity," (what the hell?) "easy meat," "greenie/noob/student," etc. etc.
You must be overcompensating for SOMETHING. I wonder what it is?
Also, I'll have published at least two technical reports by the end of the year, one on a security audit of a cooperative storage pool and the other on a real-time scheduling algorithm. The latter may be presented at a conference; we'll have to see how far we get with it.
I have to say I find it highly amusing that your sole metric of whether or not someone is successful in the field of computer science is whether or not they have created an artifact of software that people download from a consumer website.
That must have wasted an enormous amount of your time, opening up with both barrels of insanity on me like that.
Hey, here's a good one.
"APK: "Thanks for the ammunition I suppose, this will help my attorney alot, Ken "Caesar" Fisher"
The New York Bar lists three attorneys named Ken Fisher. Which one is yours so I can call him and ask him if he really represents you. You ARE aware that it's illegal to file false charges, aren't you?"
HAHAHAHAHA
Nice job at barratry there, pal!
Man, reading through the rest of this WindowsITPro article it sure looks like you spammed the hell out of their comments system. Pages upon pages of fake 3rd-party posts by people who don't exist that you made up to support you. Did you ever actually register as a user there? I can't find anything posted by "APK," just page after page of anonymous posts. Is this because you were worried about getting banned?
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
I LOVE that you finally invaded Slashdot. I can't wait for the REAL trolls (I am but a padawan, as you say) to get to you.
GNAA 4EVA
to disguise your writing style?
Why do you do this third-person "ROFLOMG APK SURE SHOWED YOU" thing? Perhaps it's because everyone sees that you are a raving lunatic and no real people will back you up, so you have to make people up?
I note you didn't actually address anything I said about RT systems, either.
(Also, I actually spent three years as a field service engineer for Fujifilm before returning to school to get my Ph.D. [got bored], but I'm sure your thirteen years of flipping registry entries and designing alarm clocks in Delphi is far superior to that)
It doesn't look like anyone thinks you slapped anyone else down, either. In fact just about everyone at WITPro seems to think you're a 50-amp power tool.
"APK manages to create the impression that MR just didn't know why this could be a problem, until he was rescued by APK's superior knowledge. But there's no actual evidence of any of this, it's just innuendo."
That seems to be your M.O. most of the time, doesn't it?
Anyone who reads this and knows the way you write knows that it's you, Alex. No one misformats sentence syntax quite like APK2005+++SR9.
You tried pulling this same trick back on Ars and no one bought it then either.
Hey... what's OSY?
In fact, why don't you tell us all about this?
WHEE!
p lan/realtime.mspx
/. again!
You really have no idea what you're talking about. Take a RTS course and get back to me.
You could start by reading this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/wce/
Real-time is about timeliness, NOT speed. Speed can support the goal of timeliness, but often in real-time systems (especially embedded ones) the hardware you're working with is in fact *not* faster (or even as fast as) your standard consumer desktop. Think the processing hardware for, say, the guidance system of a missile. You wouldn't want to run Windows Vista on that, trust me.
(Of course, this might be a bad example because depending on the implementation, there might not be any operating system AT ALL)
Are you going to chase me down and reply with vitriol to every comment I post? Finally! A reason to read
I'm not trying to hide the fact that I have no respect for you whatsoever. If I gave the impression that I did, my apologies.
In point of fact, I am a doctoral student in computer engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and this coming semester I will be implementing a real-time (m,k)-type scheduler which uses smart i/o-bound job dropping to achieve better power management. We'll be investigating the prospect of dynamically scheduling by looking at the i/o usage history of processes and projecting that usage into future predictions of i/o behavior. In this way we can drop jobs which occur in-between i/o-bound jobs, push them together and eliminate the overhead of switching i/o devices off and back on again (rather than dropping them just based on plain (m,k)-firm constraints).
However, none of this was about me, really - it was more about me GREATLY enjoying trolling the hell out of you because you're an imbecile who enjoys belittling others. Don't think we forgot why you were banned - and it's clear you haven't changed. The 3rd-person mockery post proved that. It must have been a significant effort to restrain yourself from putting "apk" at the end of every sentence.
that "real time = real fast."
;)
Often, nothing could be further from the truth.
I wonder why this seems to escape Slashdot article authors.
Wait... nevermind