> If you're reading Slashdot at 6 AM on Sunday
> morning (note typical U.S.-centrism), clearly
> you have the right stuff to quip with the best > of them.
What if you are reading it on the day you are getting married?? Does that count for anything?
They aren't likely to be bringing any IP lawsuits (unless someone violates the GPL on, say, dpkg and they decide to fight it). They might, however, have to deal with trademark lawsuits. They probably won't fight any actual suits-- they don't have the money-- but they have to make sure people don't use their official logo indiscriminately. It would degrade the trademark and eventually they would be unable to defend it. That's the reason Slashdot has to use the styrofoam cup for Java instead of the real logo; Rob got mail from Sun telling him to stop using their trademarks Or Else. Sun, unfortunately, does not provide and "unofficial" logo. Debian does.
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Try setting $http_proxy to 'http://my_proxy_server:3128/' (or whatever the appropriate port is). Most programs that have proxy support observe the http_proxy environment variable.
When I first read the subject of this post, I thought it was sincere rather than sarcastic. Although you may not be aware of it, torture is all too common today, in countries all over the world. Before you start talking about castrating rapists, maybe you should talk about reforming violent dictators and ensuring that prisoners are not tortured, hmmm?
>> 2400 baud modem used to connect to classic Prodigy on an IBM PS1 six or seven years ago Six or seven years ago? I'm still using an IBM PS/1 to connect to the Internet. It just happens to not have a monitor attached to it.:)
An interesting point, but its important to distinguish between bandwidth and latency. A truckload of tape would have monstrous bandwidth, but horrible latency.
Can you imagine playing Quake through a station wagon?
The ones not requiring an ID may incur greater costs due to fraud (not that that's inhibiting any current e-commerce companies), but the ones that do require it will have to raise prices by a much greater factor because with fewer customers, they have to get more profit per unit.
Rob, I'd just like to say I appreciate all the nanotech stories lately. This is some really interesting stuff, and I think it fits the mindset of this site's viewers very well. Keep it up!
The fact is, if you're running a version of sendmail or Apache for which there are known and published exploits, you are going to get exploited eventually, regardless of what information you put out, and you deserve what you get for being a crappy sysadmin and not staying aware of security issues in the software you run.
And regardless of the admittedly weak ``you shoulda fixed your software'' argument, it is important for network software that interacts with other software to make itself identifiable to other software so that the software that interacts with it can work around its brain-damages. Admittedly, in a perfect world, software shouldn't have brain-damages, but one man's feature is another man's blemish.
Well, most complex apps have their own cut+paste buffer for complex stuff (like pasting images, or keeping things in the cut buffer for a long time), but for simple get-the-data-into-the-app sort of things, there's a universal X selection buffer. Just select something and middle-click in the correct widget of the window you want it in. If you don't have a middle mouse button, your X server may be set up to emulate one when you click the left and right buttons together. If you only have one mouse button, I'm afraid you're beyond salvation.:)
I'm sure we're all quite tired of the childish pointless bitching from people who don't want to risk reading something more than once, and I, in my infinite wisdom, have concoted a solution:
Rename the site. It should be Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff the DOESN'T matter. I think that would solve a lot of problems and put things in perspective. What do you say, Rob?
Unfortunately, the ice discovered on the moon is thinly dispersed through the soil, making it very difficult to extract. Add to that the energy expense of separating the oxygen and hydrogen (remember, when you recombine them you only get back what you put in to separate them, minus some pretty big efficiency losses) and the moon isn't terrific as a fueling base. It does, however, seem better than an orbital space station for many purposes, largely because you don't run the unnecesary risk of more flying crap.
Perhaps someday if we set up a Skyhook, we can more efficiently lift material into orbit, from where they can be sent to the moon to be assembled and launched cheaply.:)
I don't have much to add here.. Other posters have already said most of what I think, but I'd like to affirm that Kosmic is a great resource that I'd hate to lose, and everyone should contribute what they can. Say... does anyone work for Compaq that could take a little ``ten fingered discount'' on a nice server?:)
BTW, for those who've never heard of Kosmic before, there are still links to music on the main page, so you can check it out and see if you like their stuff enough to donate.
By the way, a bit of advice to those who flamed Scoop: Even if you are sending constructive advice, such as suggesting ways something could be improved, write a draft of your email and save it, then go off to do something else... read your own email, browse Freshmeat, debug your kernel, whatever. When an hour has passed, proofread the mail you were going to send. Correct the grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Then send it.
(And you thought I was going to tell you to delete it, didn't you? Well, I guess you can if you want to.. If it's not actually constructive, it's probably a good idea)
Dammit, Freshmeat was probably the only site I have ever found whose layout I thought was really awesome. Most sites have various little issues that make them ugly or a pain to navigate, but Freshmeat had a beautifully clean and elegant interface, and most importantly, looked great in Lynx! I didn't get a chance to see the new site, but I can hardly imagine that Scoop would have made it worse.
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(and yes, I got married yesterday and here posting!!!)
Leaving for the honeymoon Wed, busy moving into the new house right now
> If you're reading Slashdot at 6 AM on Sunday
> morning (note typical U.S.-centrism), clearly
> you have the right stuff to quip with the best > of them.
What if you are reading it on the day you are getting married?? Does that count for anything?
They aren't likely to be bringing any IP lawsuits (unless someone violates the GPL on, say, dpkg and they decide to fight it). They might, however, have to deal with trademark lawsuits. They probably won't fight any actual suits-- they don't have the money-- but they have to make sure people don't use their official logo indiscriminately. It would degrade the trademark and eventually they would be unable to defend it. That's the reason Slashdot has to use the styrofoam cup for Java instead of the real logo; Rob got mail from Sun telling him to stop using their trademarks Or Else. Sun, unfortunately, does not provide and "unofficial" logo. Debian does.
Try setting $http_proxy to 'http://my_proxy_server:3128/' (or whatever the appropriate port is). Most programs that have proxy support observe the http_proxy environment variable.
When I first read the subject of this post, I thought it was sincere rather than sarcastic. Although you may not be aware of it, torture is all too common today, in countries all over the world. Before you start talking about castrating rapists, maybe you should talk about reforming violent dictators and ensuring that prisoners are not tortured, hmmm?
>> 2400 baud modem used to connect to classic Prodigy on an IBM PS1 six or seven years ago Six or seven years ago? I'm still using an IBM PS/1 to connect to the Internet. It just happens to not have a monitor attached to it. :)
Can you imagine playing Quake through a station wagon?
pi = three, for large values of three.
I will, however, register my vote for "Free Software" when it is necesary to choose.
I've seen this a couple of times from you, Rob. You probably need to recompile xanim with the extra (non-free but zero-dollar) codecs:
- Radius Cinepak
- Intel Indeo 3.x
- Creative Technology's CYUV
This may be a problem if you're strict about only running free software, but it really improves compatibility.The ones not requiring an ID may incur greater costs due to fraud (not that that's inhibiting any current e-commerce companies), but the ones that do require it will have to raise prices by a much greater factor because with fewer customers, they have to get more profit per unit.
Rob, I'd just like to say I appreciate all the nanotech stories lately. This is some really interesting stuff, and I think it fits the mindset of this site's viewers very well. Keep it up!
And regardless of the admittedly weak ``you shoulda fixed your software'' argument, it is important for network software that interacts with other software to make itself identifiable to other software so that the software that interacts with it can work around its brain-damages. Admittedly, in a perfect world, software shouldn't have brain-damages, but one man's feature is another man's blemish.
Hmm.. mere pedantry here, but wouldn't curved screens be better? Curved, that is, towards the viewer to minimize distortion...
Well, most complex apps have their own cut+paste buffer for complex stuff (like pasting images, or keeping things in the cut buffer for a long time), but for simple get-the-data-into-the-app sort of things, there's a universal X selection buffer. Just select something and middle-click in the correct widget of the window you want it in. If you don't have a middle mouse button, your X server may be set up to emulate one when you click the left and right buttons together. If you only have one mouse button, I'm afraid you're beyond salvation. :)
I'm sure we're all quite tired of the childish pointless bitching from people who don't want to risk reading something more than once, and I, in my infinite wisdom, have concoted a solution:
Rename the site. It should be Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff the DOESN'T matter. I think that would solve a lot of problems and put things in perspective. What do you say, Rob?
Unfortunately, the ice discovered on the moon is thinly dispersed through the soil, making it very difficult to extract. Add to that the energy expense of separating the oxygen and hydrogen (remember, when you recombine them you only get back what you put in to separate them, minus some pretty big efficiency losses) and the moon isn't terrific as a fueling base. It does, however, seem better than an orbital space station for many purposes, largely because you don't run the unnecesary risk of more flying crap.
:)
Perhaps someday if we set up a Skyhook, we can more efficiently lift material into orbit, from where they can be sent to the moon to be assembled and launched cheaply.
I don't have much to add here.. Other posters have already said most of what I think, but I'd like to affirm that Kosmic is a great resource that I'd hate to lose, and everyone should contribute what they can. Say... does anyone work for Compaq that could take a little ``ten fingered discount'' on a nice server? :)
BTW, for those who've never heard of Kosmic before, there are still links to music on the main page, so you can check it out and see if you like their stuff enough to donate.
By the way, a bit of advice to those who flamed Scoop: Even if you are sending constructive advice, such as suggesting ways something could be improved, write a draft of your email and save it, then go off to do something else... read your own email, browse Freshmeat, debug your kernel, whatever. When an hour has passed, proofread the mail you were going to send. Correct the grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Then send it.
(And you thought I was going to tell you to delete it, didn't you? Well, I guess you can if you want to.. If it's not actually constructive, it's probably a good idea)
Dammit, Freshmeat was probably the only site I have ever found whose layout I thought was really awesome. Most sites have various little issues that make them ugly or a pain to navigate, but Freshmeat had a beautifully clean and elegant interface, and most importantly, looked great in Lynx! I didn't get a chance to see the new site, but I can hardly imagine that Scoop would have made it worse.