Eek..you're right. I actually thought about localtime before I made that post but I think I was in a bit of a hurry. I guess since I've always preferred that the full date be displayed the thought never crossed my mind.
Why was the standard this way? Seems counter-intuitive. Is it just another throwback from when everyone had to conserve as much memory as possible?
Try setting the access controls on who can bind to a particular port under Windows NT, with the ease of chmod and portfs under Linux, and you'll fail miserably. And the list goes on.
What is portfs? It sounds interesting but I can't find anything about it. Is it known by another name, or does anyone have a URL for it? Maybe I already know about it and just don't know what it's called.:)
I wrote etoys a letter patting them on the back for making the right decision, whatever their reasoning was. Now that they're backpedaling, I think it would be even more effective to show them we think they did the right thing. What's that saying about catching more somethings with honey than vinegar?
Not that we should be too nice, I wasn't too congratulatory and let them know I was very unhappy with what was happening from the beginning, but I also let them know that now I'm no longer boycotting their company or their site.
I think boycotting amazon over this behaviour is a wonderful idea. And I have one of my own.
Do you have relatives that always send you annoying chain letters? How about sending them one of your own. Explain to them in simple terms the reason to boycott amazon and encourage them to send it to all of their friends. Here's part of what I used to explain this to my parents.
Essentially, this is what Pizza Hut does when you give them your phone number and they look up your address in the computer. Only in this case, it's your web browser that gives them the "phone number".
If someone makes a boycott amazon page with resources you could point them to this as well.
I've played so many Sims now I'm a killing machine. I'm extremely violent and whenever anyone causes me any trouble, I run straight home to my garage to start building a few tanks. Once that's completed I hire some infantry and train a few medics, then assault their base.
You should see the artillery I have in my back yard.
Who cares where it comes from? As long as Microsoft is supporting it now, it helps *us*. If they change halfway through they look bad, we look good, and by then hopefully even more people will understand what's good about it. The more noise microsoft makes about it the better. I don't see how this can hurt us. Who cares if Microsoft is being hypocritical?
could this give the phone companies some kind of edge in the market so they could drop their monthly prices significantly, since they would be getting a per minute charge for your dialin anyway?
I bet anakin skywalker dies, since he's not really important to the story. When are they going to bring darth vader into the story anyway? I thought he was going to be in Episode I.
What's really funny is if you see the video of the people who waited in line for several weeks to see the first showing. They must be so proud of themselves.:)
I bet that's one they won't be telling any grandchildren about, eh?
You Said: And there's that whole scene with C3PO and Chewie playing the quasi-chess game in Star Wars, where C3PO is warned that wookies pull the arms out of their opponents if that particular wookie is angered. Screw wookies, screw their arrogance, screw their propensity to physical violence, screw their stupidity and their inability to do anything other than yawn loudly, and screw Chewbacca. I'm glad he's dead. I hope he suffers first. I hope it's because he can't control his filthy self and reaches for a rotting piece of meat hanging from a trap on an alien world while the rest of them is conducting a highly secret, crucial mission.
And I replied:
You sound a little overly sensitive here, did one of the special ed wookie children beat you up when you were little?
Because we all know that the only thing domain names get used for are webpages. What difference does it make what you're using it for, what if it's just a lame irc vanity domain? What business is it of yours or anyone elses?
Oh, I have an idea, we'll let that reliable company NSI decide if we have a "valid reason" for having the domain. Does that mean I have to give them access to my server so they can dig through it to find out if I'm *really* using it?
The company announced Thursday it would pay the cash-starved Russian space agency about half the price of a 30-second TV ad during the Super Bowl -- currently up to $2.5 million -- for the right to paint its logo on a Russian Proton rocket.
To me it looks like it's saying (half the price of a superbowl ad) == ($2.5 million).
I've heard the $2.5 million figure quite a few places now.
I have to say i was rather disapointed with this article. I completely agree with all the comments about this -- I imagine the author of this article could most likely get fired because of this. Don't you have an NDA where you work?
I am a contractor at Microsoft, and I do unix and perl most of the day. I am very much a unix fan, but working here has really made me aware of the horrible double standard all slashdotters and other people in the community seem to have.
I guess I just want to blow off some steam, but just recently I thought "Hmm, I should get a Linux tshirt." and I went to linuxmall. All the TShirts there look like they were made by 10 year olds, and I'd be embarassed to wear most of them in public. Yet apparently they sell, and people by them. Not because of the quality of the product, but JUST because it's Linux related.
I love good humor about microsoft, but especially with working here, everyone who sees my ip seems to think they're the first person who ever realized that I'm coming from micros-~1. I've found that ANY humor that involves microsoft is immediately funny to most linux fans, even if the joke itself is extremely lame.
(No, I'm referred to by my name, not an employee id number:)
Also, I don't really think it is god for the Linux community to constantly compare itself to microsoft. OH LOOK, SOMEONE AT MICROSOFT RUNS LINUX! HAHAH THE MICROSOFT PERSON DOESNT UNDERSTAND IT VERY WELL! OH MY GOD IVE NEVER SEEN ANTHING FUNNIER IN MY LIFE.
feh.
I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this, but at least I've been able to let off some steam.
am i the only person here who does not necessarily believe this really is from internic? I mean, none of the email addresses are even internic hostnames, none of the recieved headers look like they're from internic. Since this is such publically available information, anyone could really pose as internic and mail you. Maybe I'm being naive but I don't think internic is this stupid. It's hard to believe that someone would be that stupid to try to pose as internic to get users for their free email, but I think it makes more sense that way. Here's the headers from my mail: Received: from maild.inte-net.com ([63.71.102.109]) by bilbo.w-link.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA05359 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 02:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
Tech support workers nightmare.
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Officer: 911, what's your emergency. Caller : Some psycho is shooting at my house! Officer: Please calm down sir, what is your location? Caller : My address is 14802 SE 10th ST..on the corner of 148th! Officer: Oh.. shit. Caller : What? Officer: Uh, do you know anything about computers? Caller : WHAT?! Officer: hold on.. [bang! bang!] Caller : Can't you send someone down here?! Officer: Well I was about to, but my application stopped responding. [bang!] Caller : Well do something! Officer: What should I do? I don't know anything about computers! Caller : Did you try hitting control-alt-delete? Officer: What's that? Caller : Hold down control and alt, then press the delete key. Officer: This window came up that says "Close Program" Caller : Okay, click on the program in the list that matches the one that's crashed. [bang!] Caller : Shit! my Sun! Officer: How do i find that out? Caller : Huh? Officer: The name of the program? Caller : You don't know the name of the program? ...continue ad nauseum:)
To solve the environmental security issue, we need a company that will sell computers with no ports for input devices that are locked inside huge steel boxes and buried in cement. Then the world will be safe once again for the large corporations who want to charge you for everything. (They really do need the money, how else can they try to put each other out of business?)
to quote from trainspotting: "it's not bad, but it's not great either." I'm all for supporting new artists but honestly, I believe almost everything on mp3.com is not worth the time it takes to listen to it. There are a few real gems there, but there's a reason there's so many unsigned bands out there.
A friend and I had a much better way to do this. We were going to make a CatCam, but never got around to it. Buy a pinhole camera and a microwatt tv transmitter, then use a video capture card on your pc.
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Why was the standard this way? Seems counter-intuitive. Is it just another throwback from when everyone had to conserve as much memory as possible?
Any Y2K problems are not going to make ANYTHING think it's 100AD. More likely 1900AD. It's funny, but I guess I'm just picky.
What is portfs? It sounds interesting but I can't find anything about it. Is it known by another name, or does anyone have a URL for it? Maybe I already know about it and just don't know what it's called. :)
Not that we should be too nice, I wasn't too congratulatory and let them know I was very unhappy with what was happening from the beginning, but I also let them know that now I'm no longer boycotting their company or their site.
I encourage others to do the same.
Do you have relatives that always send you annoying chain letters? How about sending them one of your own. Explain to them in simple terms the reason to boycott amazon and encourage them to send it to all of their friends. Here's part of what I used to explain this to my parents.
Essentially, this is what Pizza Hut does when you give them your phone number and they look up your address in the computer. Only in this case, it's your web browser that gives them the "phone number".
If someone makes a boycott amazon page with resources you could point them to this as well.
You should see the artillery I have in my back yard.
Who cares where it comes from? As long as Microsoft is supporting it now, it helps *us*. If they change halfway through they look bad, we look good, and by then hopefully even more people will understand what's good about it. The more noise microsoft makes about it the better. I don't see how this can hurt us. Who cares if Microsoft is being hypocritical?
could this give the phone companies some kind of edge in the market so they could drop their monthly prices significantly, since they would be getting a per minute charge for your dialin anyway?
They want to use computers so they can be wrong years in advance instead of just with the five day forecasts?
I bet anakin skywalker dies, since he's not really important to the story. When are they going to bring darth vader into the story anyway? I thought he was going to be in Episode I.
What's really funny is if you see the video of the people who waited in line for several weeks to see the first showing. They must be so proud of themselves. :)
I bet that's one they won't be telling any grandchildren about, eh?
You Said:
And there's that whole scene with C3PO and Chewie playing the quasi-chess game in Star Wars, where C3PO is warned that wookies pull the arms out of their opponents if that particular wookie is angered. Screw wookies, screw their arrogance, screw their propensity to physical violence, screw their stupidity and their inability to do anything other than yawn loudly, and screw Chewbacca. I'm glad he's dead. I hope he suffers first. I hope it's because he can't control his filthy self and reaches for a rotting piece of meat hanging from a trap on an alien world while the rest of them is conducting a highly secret, crucial mission.
And I replied:
You sound a little overly sensitive here, did one of the special ed wookie children beat you up when you were little?
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Because we all know that the only thing domain names get used for are webpages. What difference does it make what you're using it for, what if it's just a lame irc vanity domain? What business is it of yours or anyone elses?
Oh, I have an idea, we'll let that reliable company NSI decide if we have a "valid reason" for having the domain. Does that mean I have to give them access to my server so they can dig through it to find out if I'm *really* using it?
To me it looks like it's saying (half the price of a superbowl ad) == ($2.5 million).
I've heard the $2.5 million figure quite a few places now.
Doesn't http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/harmony.gif
look a lot like "unix" in jurassic park?
> (ie. MS is probably planning on slamming Linux publicly for useability lapses)
Don't they use third parties for that?
I'm willing to bet cash this would be for internal information.
I have to say i was rather disapointed with this article. I completely agree with all the comments about this -- I imagine the author of this article could most likely get fired because of this. Don't you have an NDA where you work?
:)
I am a contractor at Microsoft, and I do unix and perl most of the day. I am very much a unix fan, but working here has really made me aware of the horrible double standard all slashdotters and other people in the community seem to have.
I guess I just want to blow off some steam, but just recently I thought "Hmm, I should get a Linux tshirt." and I went to linuxmall. All the TShirts there look like they were made by 10 year olds, and I'd be embarassed to wear most of them in public. Yet apparently they sell, and people by them. Not because of the quality of the product, but JUST because it's Linux related.
I love good humor about microsoft, but especially with working here, everyone who sees my ip seems to think they're the first person who ever realized that I'm coming from micros-~1. I've found that ANY humor that involves microsoft is immediately funny to most linux fans, even if the joke itself is extremely lame.
(No, I'm referred to by my name, not an employee id number
Also, I don't really think it is god for the Linux community to constantly compare itself to microsoft. OH LOOK, SOMEONE AT MICROSOFT RUNS LINUX! HAHAH THE MICROSOFT PERSON DOESNT UNDERSTAND IT VERY WELL! OH MY GOD IVE NEVER SEEN ANTHING FUNNIER IN MY LIFE.
feh.
I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this, but at least I've been able to let off some steam.
am i the only person here who does not necessarily believe this really is from internic? I mean, none of the email addresses are even internic hostnames, none of the recieved headers look like they're from internic. Since this is such publically available information, anyone could really pose as internic and mail you. Maybe I'm being naive but I don't think internic is this stupid. It's hard to believe that someone would be that stupid to try to pose as internic to get users for their free email, but I think it makes more sense that way. Here's the headers from my mail: Received: from maild.inte-net.com ([63.71.102.109]) by bilbo.w-link.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA05359 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 02:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
Officer: 911, what's your emergency. .. shit. :)
Caller : Some psycho is shooting at my house!
Officer: Please calm down sir, what is your location?
Caller : My address is 14802 SE 10th ST..on the corner of 148th!
Officer: Oh
Caller : What?
Officer: Uh, do you know anything about computers?
Caller : WHAT?!
Officer: hold on..
[bang! bang!]
Caller : Can't you send someone down here?!
Officer: Well I was about to, but my application stopped responding.
[bang!]
Caller : Well do something!
Officer: What should I do? I don't know anything about computers!
Caller : Did you try hitting control-alt-delete?
Officer: What's that?
Caller : Hold down control and alt, then press the delete key.
Officer: This window came up that says "Close Program"
Caller : Okay, click on the program in the list that matches the one that's crashed.
[bang!]
Caller : Shit! my Sun!
Officer: How do i find that out?
Caller : Huh?
Officer: The name of the program?
Caller : You don't know the name of the program?
...continue ad nauseum
Because most people immediately turned the annoying thing off rather than futz around with it?
What's up with chicks who don't like being called chicks?
To solve the environmental security issue, we need a company that will sell computers with no ports for input devices that are locked inside huge steel boxes and buried in cement. Then the world will be safe once again for the large corporations who want to charge you for everything. (They really do need the money, how else can they try to put each other out of business?)
to quote from trainspotting: "it's not bad, but it's not great either." I'm all for supporting new artists but honestly, I believe almost everything on mp3.com is not worth the time it takes to listen to it. There are a few real gems there, but there's a reason there's so many unsigned bands out there.
A friend and I had a much better way to do this. We were going to make a CatCam, but never got around to it. Buy a pinhole camera and a microwatt tv transmitter, then use a video capture card on your pc.
Rather cheap, and simple.