So nice of you to visit slashdot! While you're here, could you help me with a problem I'm having? My copy of Windows 2000 doesn't work. It freezes up alot on boot. Now, I know that ActiveFreeze technology was put in to help assist in more rapidly crashing and restarting the system, but it looks like all the bugs haven't been worked out yet.
Also, I noticed that MS Knowledgebase article Q666 seemed to indicate that summoning a daemon would fix the problem, but I can't seem to find my "Summon" button - all I got is start! Please help,
FreeBSD puts the "code freeze" down on their CVS tree, winterizes the kernel, and puts out an absolute zero (.0) release.
So what's up with this code freezing stuff, anyway? I heard C has a tendancy to bloat out when it gets cold and if you freeze it explodes taking out whatever container class you happened to put it in. Is that what they're talking about? Sorry about this post... I did a strcpy instead of strncopy and now I can't find a way to terminate this sente
Call me cynical, but what's going to happen once their economy develops more? Once they have the money to afford more "standard" solutions like Windows NT and company... will they switch (bowing to popular pressure), or will they stay with the linux solution? Even more important, what's going to happen to all these indians (not american ones!) who have all this linux expertise if/when linux is accepted in the marketplace on a wide-scale?
Yeah.. most of these sites take up about 10kb/s. Compare this with the average downloader of pr0n, mp3s, or large movies.
Yeah... it's really about the long distance. Let's just make it MORE expensive to live on campus! *groan*
Can someone explain why colleges are banning all this stuff left and right - seemingly without rhyme or reason? It's as if AOL's "guides" descended into academia and took over....
Aight, I'm bored at work again and since atleast one other person seems to believe you I guess I'll respond to this....
Signall 11 is moderating his own posts. It isn't possible. Rob has indicated this himself. If you believe I'm using several accounts to moderate myself up, I'd like to point out two fundamental problems with your arguement: a) Assuming your reader profile is the mean (whic is one of the requirements for getting mod points), there's still less than a 1% chance that you'll get points that day. There just aren't many moderator points in the system right now. You wouldn't (statistically) increase your odds much with 5, or even 10 accounts. You'd need atleast 130 to consistently moderate yourself up. Or more. There's over 130,000 accounts in the system right now. You do the math. There's also point b) why would I want to?
Karma Whoring has and will be with us forever, thanks to the stupidity of Rob Malda. ... so rather than taking that up with Rob, you're choosing to attack the messenger. Yeah, a boatload of good that'll do!
But, if stability is your sine qua non, then obviously, get the stable version and leave development versions alone. And with closed source you don't even have the option.
Hmm... so when W2K was in beta and they released updates for w98.. that doesn't qualify as two seperate development efforts?
May I further point out that my experience is that closed source companies often opt not to fix some bugs at all. In those cases it'll *never* get fixed. Which kind of leaves you in the lurch, doesn't it?
And from a user standpoint, the same can happen with open source. If I discover an obscure configuration bug in, say, Samba, the developers can still tell me it's not a "big enough" issue. There's alot of bug fixes that/could/ have gone into the linux 2.2 tree, but linus told them to merge it into 2.3 instead -- like all those hardware driver updates. As a user I'm still "in the lurch". Having the source code means nothing to me if I can't use it.
Do I hear the sound of Signal 11 smacking his forehead in chagrin?
Yeah, they want the recipe for Kevin's dynamite meatloaf. That's what the encrypted contents contain! Buwhahahaha!
Seriously now, Kevin has the right not to incriminate himself. This includes not turning over a key. This is all 5th Amendment.. the government is just trying to set a precident here so they can steam-roller it. g'luck, I have a small amount of faith that the supreme court will shoot it down.
Have you even read the different things that ESR and RMS have to say?
Like CatB and Cauldron? Uh huh. Even read the annotated Halloween documents.
Maybe you need to go back and read some more.
No need to get ornery here, we're not discussing what ESR or RMS had to say about the matter, we're discussing myths behind OSS from a practical standpoint - not the theory behind it.
The desktop, we're working on. CAD, no, we're not on that level yet, but there are several projects working on it.
Which restated means "we're not there yet." Next...
We don't have Flash because not many people cared.
We have Flash now. Read freshmeat much?
Have you played Red Alert? The programming's not even vaguely interesting to a real coder.
I think the gaming industry would disagree. I think it's pretty arrogant to say that "real programmers" can't design games. To make Quake3 requires some very in-depth knowledge of 3D display, OpenGL, and a dozen other APIs, languages, and methodologies.
I'm sorry if you've had a bad experience somewhere, or a driver didn't work right, but that's not because the programmers were idiots.
When this happens to dozens of drivers I don't think that argument can continue to hold water. And I'm not accusing the programmers of being idiots. Most are quite competent. But just like any other profession - if you don't give them the proper tools and environment they aren't going to do quality work. What I'm saying is that these programmers do not have the tools and environment required to design solid code (without lots of extra effort). Go re-read my post.
No real member of the community considers themself better than others just because of who they are.
I've successfully set up Linux boxes for people who were clueless about computers, and they're _easier_ to use. Take a WM like XFCE, which I recently set up on a 486 laptop.
My mom had trouble at the login. After that, we managed to get up and running with a box-stock mandrake system. I showed her how to login and asked her to find and open netscape. Keep in mind I already set everything up so it could find the gateway and all that. It took her awhile.
It was fun watching her try to print, too. "Nothing happened". I hear that alot on tech support, but that's the first time I had to agree with her - going through the system logs (NOT SOMETHING A NEWBIE CAN DO) I found that lpd was turned off. Enabling it caused mountains of garbage to be emitted out of the laser-printer.
Let's talk about other fun things newbies can do with linux: edit the/etc/ppp/chap-secrets file to login to their isp. Use linuxconf (text-based) to get their connection online. Okay, I'm making this alittle hard - you could use kppp. =) After you login you find out you can't - it keeps disconnected. Research reveals that ipx-negotiation was buggy on their end...
The list goes on. In short, linux fails the "mom test". It is not a myth - it is a fact. If you know what you're doing under linux these things can be minimalized and marginalized.. but for a newbie they are taunting mountains of knowledge to be overcome. And I don't know about you, but moms don't want to spend months learning rm, ls, cp, mv, ps, vi, ad nauseum, just to get X to start so they can e-mail her friends on AOL.
Ignore it all you want - but linux on the desktop is still a joke. There are *serious* UI issues to be resolved here before the average computer user (not the savvy ones like on slashdot) can use linux.
..and in the thin client space (I'm including net access devices in this) that problem has a much narrower scope than the GUI issues in a general application OS.
I haven't much experience/knowledge in the thin client arena, so the following comments may be inaccurate. I think we can agree on everything else though. =)
It's obvious that Transmeta atleast hopes to leverage it's Crusoe chip into the "net appliance" / mobile computing space, and it's also apparent they intend to use OSS methodology to build many of the applications for the Crusoe processor. As a curiosity, Crusoe is an anagram for "Source". I would think that if Transmeta's business partners are successful, linux and it's derivatives would dominate the embedded/mobile market. If this is what you meant by the "thin client" market, then I'll agree with you that linux will take off in that market.
I do have to wonder how long until somebody forks the linux tree - there are many specialized kernel tasks going on here and the existing kernel is almost 20 megs now to download. I wonder how long it will remain practical to keep everything bundled together.... although this has no bearing on any of the discussion so far...
Closed source success stories aren't successful simply because they were/are closed source.
Depends. If I measure success in terms of installed user base, feature-set, and profitability (secondary, but it's there), then proprietary software is still handily beating open source in a variety of areas.
However, this is not broadly true for all markets - in the webserver market Apache is beating the _______ out of proprietary software - infact all of the leading proprietary software manufacturers/combined/ *still* can't touch Apache. But, if we switch over to the SOHO environment you'll be hard pressed to find any linux boxen. Ironically, this is the "market" linux ought to do best in - cheap, commodity, x86 hardware doing routine server work.
While we're discussing myths.. how about we debunk another one: Open Source is superior to everything by virtue alone. Listening to RMS, slashdotters, and ESR's writings would have you believe OSS will revolutionize the world and proprietary software is/all/ bad.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I direct you to several stunning *proprietary* software achievements which the OSS community has yet to duplicate.
Autocad. For that matter, any serious CAD program.
A desktop my mom can use.
web plugins (until recently, we had no flash!)
Games. Quake and Loki's offerings may be cool, but they're a small subset of what the Windows world has. I'm still waiting for a Red Alert clone.
Just to name a few. On the hardware side - have you been watching the source checkins/checkouts for hardware drivers? Then you'll notice they follow a peculiar pattern - Initial Release (aka, it works, but it's slow). Revision 2 (it's buggy, but faster), and finally Revision 3 (finally get it right). The reason is that most people in the OSS community a) don't have access to debuggers to catch this stuff earlier and b) Often don't wait and properly engineer their drivers prior to implimentation. That is to say they're impatient. The result is hundreds of releases of software each day. Some people think this is because we "release early, release often" - I think it's because the programmers didn't know or didn't care enough to make it work correctly the first time and then need to go back and rewrite the code again. Now, if you listen quietly for a moment you can hear people already hammering at their keyboards crying foul. But I'm not done yet.
Let's take another myth: that we're somehow superior to windows or macheads. Comeon people, this is dogmatic and fanatical in the extreme. We have an OS that does *some* things better than the others. But NO OS is superior on the basis of it's name alone.
I'd also like to point out that there are other "source" movements out there that make progress approximately on par with linux and it's related software despite the fact that it has a much, MUCH smaller developer pool to draw from: the BSDs. I'll now turn matters over to my fellow slashdotters for an explanation...
Hmmm. I think we'll have bigger problems (pardon the pun) if we don't get the privacy issues under control. Imagine bugs that literally attach themselves to your body at the cellular level and monitor your heartrate, what you're saying, where you are... the possibilities for abuse are endless. Imagine your employer "bugging" you to see what you were doing on the job. Or your parents monitoring what you did/said while you were away from home. Need I mention the possible government abuses?
Let's try resolving our *current* issues before bigger problems come along (or smaller ones...).
Yeah, I know. I'm just saying the CEO said there was lots of market opportunity... but why is he focusing on such a small part of it? I think his shareholders ought to be asking this question!
Re:PHB's and security... (minor correction)
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It's not GPL'd... it's free for non-commercial use.
Wonderful. Probably the only thing it will detect is my copy of nmap.. it'll call it a "cracker tool" and remove it without notice. Let's hope the "windows" virus scanner works better....
RANT These companies are so political it's unbelievable. Did you know it labels BackOrifice as a trojan? That's cool, but why don't they tell you pcAnywhere or MS' SMS is installed covertly? Or what about that "for law enforcement purposes only" tool that is effectively BO with another name? END RANT
Yes, and I agree - it's a popularity contest. try not to get too upset about it though. I'm just happy people like to read my comments. I also get the occasional troll attached to a post of mine, but doesn't everybody?:) It's slashdot.. don't take it too seriously.
Now, if I could just figure out how to convince people I'm not in it for the karma (although it's nice to brag about!) I'd be all set.. =)
I'm alittle suprised VA doesn't want to play in the desktop market. It's obvious many slashdotters here regularily scan VA's offerings but are consistently priced higher than other companies. Per unit sales may be more on the server market, but for sheer volume desktops blow them away. I'd say if you want a larger net value, go with the desktops.
As you said yourself, Chris, there's tremendous market opportunity here. Why limit yourself to servers? Perhaps an indication linux is still not ready for the desktop... only time will tell, however...
Wonderful, now we can make people sick to their stomaches and fall over in their chairs. Oh, do the scientific advances never cease...
Sorry about the rant here, I fully expect to be -1'd... but why, exactly, are we spending thousands of dollars developing virtual reality technology while other science programs stagnate and die? NASA is running on a shoestring budget.. there's a huge circle out in Texas that was abandoned before it even got moving (supercollider), and there isn't even any funds going into making sure we don't wind up being broadsided by a mile-wide asteroid. I'm just alittle irked that most of the civilized world would rather dedicate their money to fashion and developing trivial advances like this than solving issues which are very near and dear to our existance.
Here's some examples you WON'T be seeing on the front page of any newspapers: - No funding to make sure an asteroid doesn't see the huge "hit me" sign pasted over the north pole. - NASA finds extraterrestrial intelligence but Congress cut funding so they can't communicate with ET. - Congress cuts funding to those "damn welfare mothers" and redirects it to Rebock shoes so they can help economically disadvantaged CEOs. - Astronomy - God paints the 11-19th commandments on the moon Titan (and also gives instructions for contacting him), but due to cutbacks all telescopes were recycled to help Billy Graham talk about God on weekend sermons. - Nanotech - one of the few programs that actually gets funding. Result? Thousands of nanobots eat the president and covertly take over the world. Pinky is amused, but Brain is not. - Medical - Cure for cancer shelved in favor of research on bigger breast implants.
Groan. Sorry about the rant... I'm just getting seriously irked about the lack of responsibility in this Brave New Era of capitalism and global corporatism. Well, that's enough. I think I'll go login to MS-AOL-Sun-Netscape-Time-Warner-it's-internet-but- better version 2000 and download my daily allotment of spam.
Hmm, that's an interesting image. Let's see, the typical table of contents for such a "consumer report" for security might look something like this...
Cover: More bugs found in W2K. Microsoft denies problem exists and says they're working to fix it as quickly as possible. MacOS: Most secure? Performance details p. 30 AOL users swindled (again)- passwords leak out by the thousand. AOL 5.0 Upgrade of Death: Marketing ploy or gross incompetence? Slashdot source released: Malda's e-mail was out for a few weeks, thus bypassing the mandatory "24 hour wait per request" problem. L0pht drops SuperMegaCorp's pants with another vulnerability. The Press: Getting it wrong again. HNN goes inside to reveal why "they didn't get it" again. Buffer Overflow found in Cup 'O' Noodles. (After 2:30, the thing spills all over the inside of the microwave).
Also inside: A feature on Kevin Mitnick - Martyr or idiot, and an in-depth review of Emacs as an Operating System.
*sarcasm* Now when you leave your palm outside in the winter and the LCD explodes you can still use it as a cool wooden door stop. The technology boggles the mind.... it's a two-for-one deal... */sarcasm*
First off, this shouldn't be suprising anyone. These days people sue just because they're upset about X. Wife left you? Sue her. Got a drinking or gambling problem? Sue the state. Didn't like your employer's hair? Sue them.
Comeon, LinuxOne is just trying to fend off bad press until they IPO - this just further validates that claim. I don't think RedHat or 3Com would bust down my door if I wrote a bad review about their distribution or NIC cards. They'd either laugh at me, or take the criticism seriously and work to improve their product (perhaps by sending me a beta of their next product so I can critique it prior to release).
Now then, anyone wanna take bets on how fast LinuxOne will crash and burn? Even if you lose - you can sue the government. Takers? Anyone?:^)
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Touche. :^) You win.
So nice of you to visit slashdot! While you're here, could you help me with a problem I'm having? My copy of Windows 2000 doesn't work. It freezes up alot on boot. Now, I know that ActiveFreeze technology was put in to help assist in more rapidly crashing and restarting the system, but it looks like all the bugs haven't been worked out yet.
Also, I noticed that MS Knowledgebase article Q666 seemed to indicate that summoning a daemon would fix the problem, but I can't seem to find my "Summon" button - all I got is start! Please help,
Sincerely,
G. e. kwanab
So what's up with this code freezing stuff, anyway? I heard C has a tendancy to bloat out when it gets cold and if you freeze it explodes taking out whatever container class you happened to put it in. Is that what they're talking about? Sorry about this post... I did a strcpy instead of strncopy and now I can't find a way to terminate this sente
Call me cynical, but what's going to happen once their economy develops more? Once they have the money to afford more "standard" solutions like Windows NT and company... will they switch (bowing to popular pressure), or will they stay with the linux solution? Even more important, what's going to happen to all these indians (not american ones!) who have all this linux expertise if/when linux is accepted in the marketplace on a wide-scale?
Yeah... it's really about the long distance. Let's just make it MORE expensive to live on campus! *groan*
Can someone explain why colleges are banning all this stuff left and right - seemingly without rhyme or reason? It's as if AOL's "guides" descended into academia and took over....
Signall 11 is moderating his own posts.
It isn't possible. Rob has indicated this himself. If you believe I'm using several accounts to moderate myself up, I'd like to point out two fundamental problems with your arguement: a) Assuming your reader profile is the mean (whic is one of the requirements for getting mod points), there's still less than a 1% chance that you'll get points that day. There just aren't many moderator points in the system right now. You wouldn't (statistically) increase your odds much with 5, or even 10 accounts. You'd need atleast 130 to consistently moderate yourself up. Or more. There's over 130,000 accounts in the system right now. You do the math. There's also point b) why would I want to?
Karma Whoring has and will be with us forever, thanks to the stupidity of Rob Malda.
... so rather than taking that up with Rob, you're choosing to attack the messenger. Yeah, a boatload of good that'll do!
Hmm... so when W2K was in beta and they released updates for w98.. that doesn't qualify as two seperate development efforts?
May I further point out that my experience is that closed source companies often opt not to fix some bugs at all. In those cases it'll *never* get fixed. Which kind of leaves you in the lurch, doesn't it?
And from a user standpoint, the same can happen with open source. If I discover an obscure configuration bug in, say, Samba, the developers can still tell me it's not a "big enough" issue. There's alot of bug fixes that /could/ have gone into the linux 2.2 tree, but linus told them to merge it into 2.3 instead -- like all those hardware driver updates. As a user I'm still "in the lurch". Having the source code means nothing to me if I can't use it.
Do I hear the sound of Signal 11 smacking his forehead in chagrin?
Not yet. =)
Sounds like a double-standard to me. You're comparing two things but using a different metric for each.
Seriously now, Kevin has the right not to incriminate himself. This includes not turning over a key. This is all 5th Amendment.. the government is just trying to set a precident here so they can steam-roller it. g'luck, I have a small amount of faith that the supreme court will shoot it down.
Like CatB and Cauldron? Uh huh. Even read the annotated Halloween documents.
Maybe you need to go back and read some more.
No need to get ornery here, we're not discussing what ESR or RMS had to say about the matter, we're discussing myths behind OSS from a practical standpoint - not the theory behind it.
The desktop, we're working on. CAD, no, we're not on that level yet, but there are several projects working on it.
Which restated means "we're not there yet." Next...
We don't have Flash because not many people cared.
We have Flash now. Read freshmeat much?
Have you played Red Alert? The programming's not even vaguely interesting to a real coder.
I think the gaming industry would disagree. I think it's pretty arrogant to say that "real programmers" can't design games. To make Quake3 requires some very in-depth knowledge of 3D display, OpenGL, and a dozen other APIs, languages, and methodologies.
I'm sorry if you've had a bad experience somewhere, or a driver didn't work right, but that's not because the programmers were idiots.
When this happens to dozens of drivers I don't think that argument can continue to hold water. And I'm not accusing the programmers of being idiots. Most are quite competent. But just like any other profession - if you don't give them the proper tools and environment they aren't going to do quality work. What I'm saying is that these programmers do not have the tools and environment required to design solid code (without lots of extra effort). Go re-read my post.
No real member of the community considers themself better than others just because of who they are.
*cough* No comment.
My mom had trouble at the login. After that, we managed to get up and running with a box-stock mandrake system. I showed her how to login and asked her to find and open netscape. Keep in mind I already set everything up so it could find the gateway and all that. It took her awhile.
It was fun watching her try to print, too. "Nothing happened". I hear that alot on tech support, but that's the first time I had to agree with her - going through the system logs (NOT SOMETHING A NEWBIE CAN DO) I found that lpd was turned off. Enabling it caused mountains of garbage to be emitted out of the laser-printer.
Let's talk about other fun things newbies can do with linux: edit the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file to login to their isp. Use linuxconf (text-based) to get their connection online. Okay, I'm making this alittle hard - you could use kppp. =) After you login you find out you can't - it keeps disconnected. Research reveals that ipx-negotiation was buggy on their end...
The list goes on. In short, linux fails the "mom test". It is not a myth - it is a fact. If you know what you're doing under linux these things can be minimalized and marginalized.. but for a newbie they are taunting mountains of knowledge to be overcome. And I don't know about you, but moms don't want to spend months learning rm, ls, cp, mv, ps, vi, ad nauseum, just to get X to start so they can e-mail her friends on AOL.
Ignore it all you want - but linux on the desktop is still a joke. There are *serious* UI issues to be resolved here before the average computer user (not the savvy ones like on slashdot) can use linux.
I haven't much experience/knowledge in the thin client arena, so the following comments may be inaccurate. I think we can agree on everything else though. =)
It's obvious that Transmeta atleast hopes to leverage it's Crusoe chip into the "net appliance" / mobile computing space, and it's also apparent they intend to use OSS methodology to build many of the applications for the Crusoe processor. As a curiosity, Crusoe is an anagram for "Source". I would think that if Transmeta's business partners are successful, linux and it's derivatives would dominate the embedded/mobile market. If this is what you meant by the "thin client" market, then I'll agree with you that linux will take off in that market.
I do have to wonder how long until somebody forks the linux tree - there are many specialized kernel tasks going on here and the existing kernel is almost 20 megs now to download. I wonder how long it will remain practical to keep everything bundled together.... although this has no bearing on any of the discussion so far...
Depends. If I measure success in terms of installed user base, feature-set, and profitability (secondary, but it's there), then proprietary software is still handily beating open source in a variety of areas.
However, this is not broadly true for all markets - in the webserver market Apache is beating the _______ out of proprietary software - infact all of the leading proprietary software manufacturers /combined/ *still* can't touch Apache. But, if we switch over to the SOHO environment you'll be hard pressed to find any linux boxen. Ironically, this is the "market" linux ought to do best in - cheap, commodity, x86 hardware doing routine server work.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I direct you to several stunning *proprietary* software achievements which the OSS community has yet to duplicate.
- Autocad. For that matter, any serious CAD program.
- A desktop my mom can use.
- web plugins (until recently, we had no flash!)
- Games. Quake and Loki's offerings may be cool, but they're a small subset of what the Windows world has. I'm still waiting for a Red Alert clone.
Just to name a few. On the hardware side - have you been watching the source checkins/checkouts for hardware drivers? Then you'll notice they follow a peculiar pattern - Initial Release (aka, it works, but it's slow). Revision 2 (it's buggy, but faster), and finally Revision 3 (finally get it right). The reason is that most people in the OSS community a) don't have access to debuggers to catch this stuff earlier and b) Often don't wait and properly engineer their drivers prior to implimentation. That is to say they're impatient. The result is hundreds of releases of software each day. Some people think this is because we "release early, release often" - I think it's because the programmers didn't know or didn't care enough to make it work correctly the first time and then need to go back and rewrite the code again. Now, if you listen quietly for a moment you can hear people already hammering at their keyboards crying foul. But I'm not done yet.Let's take another myth: that we're somehow superior to windows or macheads. Comeon people, this is dogmatic and fanatical in the extreme. We have an OS that does * some * things better than the others. But NO OS is superior on the basis of it's name alone.
I'd also like to point out that there are other "source" movements out there that make progress approximately on par with linux and it's related software despite the fact that it has a much, MUCH smaller developer pool to draw from: the BSDs. I'll now turn matters over to my fellow slashdotters for an explanation...
Let's try resolving our *current* issues before bigger problems come along (or smaller ones...).
Yeah, I know. I'm just saying the CEO said there was lots of market opportunity... but why is he focusing on such a small part of it? I think his shareholders ought to be asking this question!
It's not GPL'd... it's free for non-commercial use.
RANT
These companies are so political it's unbelievable. Did you know it labels BackOrifice as a trojan? That's cool, but why don't they tell you pcAnywhere or MS' SMS is installed covertly? Or what about that "for law enforcement purposes only" tool that is effectively BO with another name?
END RANT
Now, if I could just figure out how to convince people I'm not in it for the karma (although it's nice to brag about!) I'd be all set.. =)
As you said yourself, Chris, there's tremendous market opportunity here. Why limit yourself to servers? Perhaps an indication linux is still not ready for the desktop... only time will tell, however...
Sorry about the rant here, I fully expect to be -1'd... but why, exactly, are we spending thousands of dollars developing virtual reality technology while other science programs stagnate and die? NASA is running on a shoestring budget.. there's a huge circle out in Texas that was abandoned before it even got moving (supercollider), and there isn't even any funds going into making sure we don't wind up being broadsided by a mile-wide asteroid. I'm just alittle irked that most of the civilized world would rather dedicate their money to fashion and developing trivial advances like this than solving issues which are very near and dear to our existance.
Here's some examples you WON'T be seeing on the front page of any newspapers:
- No funding to make sure an asteroid doesn't see the huge "hit me" sign pasted over the north pole.
- NASA finds extraterrestrial intelligence but Congress cut funding so they can't communicate with ET.
- Congress cuts funding to those "damn welfare mothers" and redirects it to Rebock shoes so they can help economically disadvantaged CEOs.
- Astronomy - God paints the 11-19th commandments on the moon Titan (and also gives instructions for contacting him), but due to cutbacks all telescopes were recycled to help Billy Graham talk about God on weekend sermons.
- Nanotech - one of the few programs that actually gets funding. Result? Thousands of nanobots eat the president and covertly take over the world. Pinky is amused, but Brain is not.
- Medical - Cure for cancer shelved in favor of research on bigger breast implants.
Groan. Sorry about the rant... I'm just getting seriously irked about the lack of responsibility in this Brave New Era of capitalism and global corporatism. Well, that's enough. I think I'll go login to MS-AOL-Sun-Netscape-Time-Warner-it's-internet-but- better version 2000 and download my daily allotment of spam.
Cover: More bugs found in W2K. Microsoft denies problem exists and says they're working to fix it as quickly as possible.
MacOS: Most secure? Performance details p. 30
AOL users swindled (again)- passwords leak out by the thousand.
AOL 5.0 Upgrade of Death: Marketing ploy or gross incompetence?
Slashdot source released: Malda's e-mail was out for a few weeks, thus bypassing the mandatory "24 hour wait per request" problem.
L0pht drops SuperMegaCorp's pants with another vulnerability.
The Press: Getting it wrong again. HNN goes inside to reveal why "they didn't get it" again.
Buffer Overflow found in Cup 'O' Noodles. (After 2:30, the thing spills all over the inside of the microwave).
Also inside: A feature on Kevin Mitnick - Martyr or idiot, and an in-depth review of Emacs as an Operating System.
Yoda?
*sarcasm* Now when you leave your palm outside in the winter and the LCD explodes you can still use it as a cool wooden door stop. The technology boggles the mind.... it's a two-for-one deal... */sarcasm*
Comeon, LinuxOne is just trying to fend off bad press until they IPO - this just further validates that claim. I don't think RedHat or 3Com would bust down my door if I wrote a bad review about their distribution or NIC cards. They'd either laugh at me, or take the criticism seriously and work to improve their product (perhaps by sending me a beta of their next product so I can critique it prior to release).
Now then, anyone wanna take bets on how fast LinuxOne will crash and burn? Even if you lose - you can sue the government. Takers? Anyone? :^)