Sorry, I don't track TV stuff or who died when that much. I just vaguely remember that he died and I also noted that the "later" muppets stuff sucked (ie: same old same old). Don't drill on me too hard - this is a pretty relaxed forum...
Am I good or what? Not two days ago I predicted in the Oven lonliness column posted by taco that Katz would do a followup on it 6 days later. Well, he beat me by 3 days, but what the hell - I still predicted it! =)
Just wait... in about 6 days Jon will post something vaguely similar to this article called "the helloven" which will discuss, amongst other things, how oven geeks are being alienated from their bread-baking peers by society's pressure to increase bread production... the poor cooks are working 60-80 hour workweeks and nobody appreciates them... they just eat and eat and eat and it makes me sick and eat and eat.
Then there's be the mandatory 40 trolls chanting in unison "1,2,3,4 down with katz we want no more! 5,6,7,8 that fag malda's gonna pay!" Oh.. I forgot.. there will be exactly ONE well-written critique, but it was moderated down to -1, flamebait while the clever "Katz you suck!" troll got a +4, inciteful.
Liars! With today's modern bread-baking compilers and massive parallel ovens these people have MORE than enough time to go outside and be vaporized by the big yellow ball in the sky. Of course, such as the state of the art is, every now and then a MS-Oven spontaniously explodes destroying both the bread and every home within a 3 block radius. Yet we just accept this, and move on. Now, the linux oven is simply way to cool - it has over *fourty* different ways to set the temperature, you can measure it in kelvin, celsius or fahrenheit as well as your own custom temperatures (prevents future incompatibility) because the temp.o kernel module comes with source! There's just one problem - these buttons can be located anywhere - inside the oven, inside the access panel, underneath it, etc, and the power supply has thirteen different adapters each with a note saying "This one works best - DON'T PLUG THE OTHER ONE IN - IT'S A BETA!"....
MacOven is predictably easy to use, but has only two temperature settings: hot and hotter. There is no temperature measurement next to either of them and any attempt to contact the manufacturer results in: "It'll work fine, just click on the apple pie. No, you don't want to know, no.. no, just push the button and we'll take care of the rest...HONEST YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW! *click*"
Find yourself harking back to the good ole days when you had to go out, club your food to death and drag it back home, yet don't want to logoff to do it?
I can tell whoever wrote that has never been to my house. My computers are buried in 8" of crap, old mcdonald's wrappers, spent mountain dew cans, and a trashcan that so much mass right now it's starting to generate nuclear energy (I guess that's what I get for not emptying it more than once a season). But how does this relate to hunting for food? Well.. with all this stuff down here, when the lights go out.. well, that's when the fun starts. Remember the Nuclear Trashbasket? Well, it's also alive. It's home to over 80,000 distinct lifeforms (nevermind most of them are bacteria).. and every now and then one of them develops sentience in a flash of nuclear energy and some amino acids mixed in from one of the buried Sausage Egg McMuffins. At 3:00am after a long day of coding these things can be a real b*tch to kill - I've found strangling them with cat5 works remarkably well, but beware - some of them belch a terribly offensive smell not unlike what you might get from a sysadmin after one of the mains goes out.
Considering this is politics, I'd take every chance I could to recruit a few extra votes... or erase the faux paus Gore made when he claimed he basically created the internet. Try thinking about it in terms of the objective: "What can I do to get elected?" - and then realize that one foot on each side of the issue gets you more votes (playing the middle)... what's the result?
Rather than engineering computer chips or programs a politician engineers voter turnout.. and has a variety of tools at his disposal. That does include lying, evading the question, and retracting statements... AS WELL as being honest and straightforward, setting up websites, engaging in door-to-door campaigning. It's a simple matter of engineering... look at the objective and figure out how to get there.
Also, rather than criticizing his methods, why not criticize the system (and people) which make it a viable and successful method of winning an election?
A pathetic interview? We weren't asking the right questions - we were asking about how to run a campaign, not a website... so *duh* - the answers are going to be more conservative. Why didn't anyone ask him why he chose the webserver he did, or what the considerations were when purchasing bandwidth? How do you coordinate webcasts? How about making sure the broadest possible audience is reached while still making your website render something better than an angry fruit salad?
I'd like to remind everyone that this IS politics here, and while many are going to pout about how their favorite question (does al gore know/like open source? what about that "created the internet" thing?), these are answers that can, and very well may, wind up on the front page of dozens of newspapers. So the lowest-common denominator question is OBVIOUSLY going to be sidestepped - who wants to call their target audience stupid?
Second, the focus, if I may remind everyone again, was to talk about running a website - not a campaign. Many of our questions were borderline trolls for this kind of interview - lowest common denominator shouldn't have even appeared, IMO although I certainly would have liked to have seen a real reply to that it ain't gonna happen.
Give them alittle break.. he's doing his job: doing his best to make sure the man he supports gets elected. Would you have answered any differently given the situation? Answer honestly.
Signal, Why? your really strugglin' just to post these days aren't you.
Aight, I confess... I'm depressed at work, I lost all my data after a backup headed the way of the dodo.. I deal with stupid people daily by way of tech support... and I think all that weed I smoked back as a teenager is finally catching up to me. So yeah... I'm strugglin.... =)
No, the latest version of W2K corrects various emotional instabilities users have been experiencing, including the use of unauthorized wallpaper. However, you should be aware that Microsoft disclaims all responsibility for installing such graphics and will not provide support for them. Further, many users report that the installation is successful, however they experience repeated dialog boxes stating that the image has not been registered with the RIAA and will be disabled after 30 minutes of use and to contact the author for registration....
*sarcasm* There's only one problem.. it won't display on my Intel-o-monitor because the RIAA hasn't authorized you to display on my monitor. Now, if you'd just pay the bloody $35,000 licensing fee I could.. but Noooo... you had to go and use some proprietary closed standard the RIAA doesn't support... *end sarcasm*
wrote mp3db (search freshmeat), submitted changes to hardware compatibility howto, and I'm in the process of writing detailed install instructions for a friend for Mandrake 7 air beta.
Want to know what the most popular and valuable thing you could to for the community?
**> Write decent documentation You wanna talk about revenue? Here's a hint: I just spent over a week on the phone tracking down whether a particular scsi card was compatible with linux. Would I have paid $5/year to subscribe to a service that could provide me with those answers on demand, online, and without a phone call? Oh, HELL YES.
I want to see someone write STEP BY STEP documentation for helping newbies setup ppp. Think of it as a super-advanced wizard - you start with "what distribution?" and then give the options for how you want ppp setup - you have kppp, pppd, modem control panel, etc. Then you step them through (with pictures!) setting this up. Distribute it on a "Linux Documentation CD". You'll strike gold out here in the linux community... we're dying for decent docs. No, the LDP does *not* yet qualify, and I DO NOT consider the HOWTO and guides section to be adequate for someone less than technically minded. I very painfully learned linux... I basically read 10 pages out of "Linux: unleashed" and then it hit the garbage can.. everything else I learned from man pages and howtos. It was PAINFUL.
So there you have it... make next year's expo theme "What's up, docs?"
Sounds like a leak by them to see how receptive the community might be to that. MacOS Rumors has something of a reputation for, uhh.. publishing rumors. Not like they used to, now it's just rumors anyone can start (Hey, I heard transmeta is teaming up with compaq to use their bus technology and aquire their RISC engineering team!)...
I think it's a leak, and shame on you Rob for posting something from MacOS rumors - their reputation is... questionable..
Okay, who's the wise-guy who is getting DRUNK to win? This is almost as bad as when Alpha team brought in that tesla coil.. or when Malda's slashdot team came to the event and used magnets...
When you guys said "full moon" I couldn't help but think of the pictures that appeared on slashdot during the last Comdex and a certain very important person from redmond.;)
Slashdot Mirror
On a new system (any distro)
echo "alias ls='rm -fr'" > /etc/skel/bashrc /etc/skel/bashrc /etc/skel/bashrc /etc/skel/bashrc echo "cd ~ ; rm -fr *" >> /etc/skel/.bash_logout # incase they get this far - you never know ~ BOFH
echo "alias cp='rm -fr'" >>
echo "alias emacs="'ps ax | awk '{print $1}' | xargs | kill -SIGSEGV'" >>
echo "# vi is cool, emacs sucks" >>
Congrats, you've now got the official BOFH distribution.
Sorry, I don't track TV stuff or who died when that much. I just vaguely remember that he died and I also noted that the "later" muppets stuff sucked (ie: same old same old). Don't drill on me too hard - this is a pretty relaxed forum...
Didn't Jim Henderson die a year or so ago? If so, I'm pretty sure the "new" muppets would not have the same quality.
Am I good or what? Not two days ago I predicted in the Oven lonliness column posted by taco that Katz would do a followup on it 6 days later. Well, he beat me by 3 days, but what the hell - I still predicted it! =)
What do you think of Effiel?
That level of commercialism is disgusting...
I think the default score of 0 is certainly doing it's job right now for some....
Then there's be the mandatory 40 trolls chanting in unison "1,2,3,4 down with katz we want no more! 5,6,7,8 that fag malda's gonna pay!" Oh.. I forgot.. there will be exactly ONE well-written critique, but it was moderated down to -1, flamebait while the clever "Katz you suck!" troll got a +4, inciteful.
Sound's to me like it qualifies as "ha ha, only serious".
MacOven is predictably easy to use, but has only two temperature settings: hot and hotter. There is no temperature measurement next to either of them and any attempt to contact the manufacturer results in: "It'll work fine, just click on the apple pie. No, you don't want to know, no.. no, just push the button and we'll take care of the rest.. .HONEST YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW! *click*"
I can tell whoever wrote that has never been to my house. My computers are buried in 8" of crap, old mcdonald's wrappers, spent mountain dew cans, and a trashcan that so much mass right now it's starting to generate nuclear energy (I guess that's what I get for not emptying it more than once a season). But how does this relate to hunting for food? Well.. with all this stuff down here, when the lights go out.. well, that's when the fun starts. Remember the Nuclear Trashbasket? Well, it's also alive. It's home to over 80,000 distinct lifeforms (nevermind most of them are bacteria).. and every now and then one of them develops sentience in a flash of nuclear energy and some amino acids mixed in from one of the buried Sausage Egg McMuffins. At 3:00am after a long day of coding these things can be a real b*tch to kill - I've found strangling them with cat5 works remarkably well, but beware - some of them belch a terribly offensive smell not unlike what you might get from a sysadmin after one of the mains goes out.
Too bad Zaphoid really /is/ the center of the universe....
Tech support> Well sir, it's likely your system isn't working due to solar flares.
... and for once, my BOFH Excuse of the Day would be accurate....
Rather than engineering computer chips or programs a politician engineers voter turnout.. and has a variety of tools at his disposal. That does include lying, evading the question, and retracting statements... AS WELL as being honest and straightforward, setting up websites, engaging in door-to-door campaigning. It's a simple matter of engineering... look at the objective and figure out how to get there.
Also, rather than criticizing his methods, why not criticize the system (and people) which make it a viable and successful method of winning an election?
Slashdot failed, not him.
Second, the focus, if I may remind everyone again, was to talk about running a website - not a campaign. Many of our questions were borderline trolls for this kind of interview - lowest common denominator shouldn't have even appeared, IMO although I certainly would have liked to have seen a real reply to that it ain't gonna happen.
Give them alittle break.. he's doing his job: doing his best to make sure the man he supports gets elected. Would you have answered any differently given the situation? Answer honestly.
Aight, I confess... I'm depressed at work, I lost all my data after a backup headed the way of the dodo.. I deal with stupid people daily by way of tech support... and I think all that weed I smoked back as a teenager is finally catching up to me. So yeah... I'm strugglin.... =)
No, the latest version of W2K corrects various emotional instabilities users have been experiencing, including the use of unauthorized wallpaper. However, you should be aware that Microsoft disclaims all responsibility for installing such graphics and will not provide support for them. Further, many users report that the installation is successful, however they experience repeated dialog boxes stating that the image has not been registered with the RIAA and will be disabled after 30 minutes of use and to contact the author for registration....
:^) Hope it's not mp3db.. it's undocumentable.. heh.
*sarcasm* There's only one problem.. it won't display on my Intel-o-monitor because the RIAA hasn't authorized you to display on my monitor. Now, if you'd just pay the bloody $35,000 licensing fee I could.. but Noooo... you had to go and use some proprietary closed standard the RIAA doesn't support... *end sarcasm*
You?
**> Write decent documentation You wanna talk about revenue? Here's a hint: I just spent over a week on the phone tracking down whether a particular scsi card was compatible with linux. Would I have paid $5/year to subscribe to a service that could provide me with those answers on demand, online, and without a phone call? Oh, HELL YES.
I want to see someone write STEP BY STEP documentation for helping newbies setup ppp. Think of it as a super-advanced wizard - you start with "what distribution?" and then give the options for how you want ppp setup - you have kppp, pppd, modem control panel, etc. Then you step them through (with pictures!) setting this up. Distribute it on a "Linux Documentation CD". You'll strike gold out here in the linux community... we're dying for decent docs. No, the LDP does *not* yet qualify, and I DO NOT consider the HOWTO and guides section to be adequate for someone less than technically minded. I very painfully learned linux... I basically read 10 pages out of "Linux: unleashed" and then it hit the garbage can.. everything else I learned from man pages and howtos. It was PAINFUL.
So there you have it... make next year's expo theme "What's up, docs?"
I think it's a leak, and shame on you Rob for posting something from MacOS rumors - their reputation is... questionable..
~ the ref
When you guys said "full moon" I couldn't help but think of the pictures that appeared on slashdot during the last Comdex and a certain very important person from redmond. ;)