I'm guessing you mean U of M Minneapolis. If you're looking for non-Windows boxes, have you even looked in the c-sci department? Not only is it crawling with linux geeks, there's even cooler stuff in the super computing center. Be sure to check out TCLUG if in doubt, there are MANY linux using U of M students.
RECENT posts? I've always considered Dvorak a nut job.
Back when I lived in my apartment (98-99), I used to watch the Screensavers with Kate and Leo on ZDTV. Then this crappy show came on (can't think of the name) where Dvorak and his debate team of highly trained monkeys would argue over tech topics. Not relevent tech topics, no, just whatever pissed off Dvorak that day. It always boiled down to arguing over whether or not Dvorak was right, and had nothing to do with the topic at hand. I still remember the episode where Dvorak referred to the new iBook as a Hello Kitty purse. That was back in early 1999 I think. An entire HOUR of arguing back and forth, not about the iBook, but whether Dvorak was just making an ass of himself.
Dvorak is an idiot, and it's not just a recent development.
Let's just bash everything Microsoft makes. Better yet, let's bash the BETAS that Microsoft is publishing.
Longhorn: I installed this piece of crap on my laptop. It didn't ask if I wanted to keep my linux partitions, it juts made me delete them. The default wallpaper is stupid, and how many users know to right click the desktop to change it? Also, the Win95 drivers shipped with my laptop don't work in Longhorn. And it keeps telling me about this "beta" thing that I supposedly installed. It's really slow on my PII-400.
WUS: This thing requires an OS preinstalled. A WINDOWS OS. It requires IIS and IE installed. It doesn't deploy linux patches. Don't bother switching from yum to WUS, it's not going to work. It's still using that femmy blue theme.
What do you people want? Oh that's right, we want to see Microsoft fall flat on their face. Never fear, this is the probable cycle:
* MS buys technology * MS repackages technology * MS publishes betas and eventually ver 1.0 * Slashdot crowd gets nervous, posts negative reviews only. * ver 1.0 is halfway decent * MS decides to add "features" * ver 2.0 ships. Twice as big as ver 1.0, and where are these alleged features? * MS decides it should send mail (Zawinski's law) * ver 3.0 ships. It sends e-mail now, but still puzzles users as to why they upgraded from ver 1.0 * ver 4.0 ships as an e-mail client, and no one remembers what the product was actually supposed to do * ver 5.0 ships. It no longer sends mail or does what it originally did. Users await ver 6.0 * Product is EOL'd
Powell has done quite a number on BPL. I heard an engineer from the ARRL give a very detailed explanation of what the FCC is doing.
The jist of it is, the developers of BPL built devices that violate part 15. The FCC is still collecting data on this, to verify that it really is a part 15 violation. Yes, BPL clobbers HF and HUNDREDS of other services, but the question remains what is "harmful interference", and does the interference that BPL creates considered harmful? In reality, the FCC has added regulations to part 15 specifically for BPL. BPL devices are more regulated than any other device by part 15 rules.
What I still don't get is why the FCC has a hard on for extending broadband. Apparently you can break their rules, ANY of their rules as long as you're giving more people in the middle of nowhere access to faster internet. Why? Who knows. Hopefully someone will get in there and start to diminish the FCCs' role in rolling out high speed internet. I would think they have better things to do, like maybe protect the frequencies they've already allocated.
As for the future of BPL, the FCC is listening. They are collecting data and actually LISTENING to people, especially the ARRL. The ARRL has taken on the job of collecting data in test cities and submitting it to the FCC. The FCC is listening, and BPL will probably die once the FCC has a strong enough case to kill their hoirribly designed devices.
For daily news, the internet works well. Check the headlines, check sports scores, movie times, events, etc.
Where big news breaks, so does the internet. Take a look at the Sept 11 attacks. ALL major news outlets were down. Slashdot stayed up*, but offered limited info. When it came down to it, radio and TV were the only reliable sources. The internet just can't handle demand for broadcast content. Even newspapers were able to get info printed before the internet outlets began to respond again.
The internet can be used as a news medium, but only when traffic permits.
* Have you guys ever thought of starting a news consulting service? CNN, Nytimes, USAToday, and most other new outlets can't handle the load./. deals with that kind of traffic every day. Maybe the brains at/. that keep the site running under constant load could help these sites out. Just a thought.
Actually, it's just copied and pasted from the article.
Writing article summaries that read well is difficult. Even so, it'd be nice if people tried to get creative instead of just copying and pasting from the article verbatim.
Any ideas on a suitable attenuator? I would imagine that you can attenuate the 100mW output down to 20 or 30, and bring it within limits. According to the FCC link in the grandparent, the FCC seems to be concerned more with your transmitter having a range of 200 feet or less, regardless of output power or antenna design.
Have you considered that the average Slashdotter probably knows that there's no link between September 11th and Iraq yet, when polled, half the people who voted for Bush said that Saddam Hussein was responsible?
Oh yeah, that automatically makes liberals right. Sorry, Bush won the election. The country voted. You lost. Get over it already.
In other words, the average Slashdotter isn't so dumb that they fell for the whole smoke and mirrors routine that the Bush administration has been running in its "war on terror"?
Oh that's right, Kerry was against the war. No wait, he was for the war. Or was he against the war. Or did he want the war to continue, but bring our troops home. Or was it the other way around. Oh wait, it was all of those, just at different times.
I'll stop tearing down Fox News when it starts reporting facts without first dripping them in right-wing bias and making up stories
Yeah, because the liberal media hasn't done this long before Fox News even existed. It's called EQUAL TIME. Yeah, they make up stuff to get their point across occasionally, but so does the liberal media. In fact, BOTH are biased and not to be trusted. Screw it, I only read the Onion from now on.
And if you're wondering why Bush won, just read my sig.
I'll take The New York Times over Fox "News" any time.
I know the running jokes about Faux News. Ha ha, they're funny.
Did it ever occur to anyone that except for Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and sometimes NBC nightly news that television media is liberally biased? Foz News is fairly obvious about putting a conservative slant on their reporting, but how is that worse than ABC and CBS, going as far as reporting on forged info just to make liberals look good?
For those of us conservatives who are sick of watered down liberally biased news, Fox News is a sigh of relief.
Of course, it's pretty obvious that most/. readers are liberal, but please stop tearing down Fox News. We put up with your liberal media crap, please put up with our conservative media crap.
Is there even only one discipline where the point goes to plasma?
Out of the box, plasma usually has a brighter, clearer display. It's almost false advertising in a way. Plasma looks clear and beautiful when you buy it, but it quickly fades.
Anybody have details on this new DLP technology? I know nothing about it except that it supposedly has the clarity of plasma without the long term fading.
Based on the context of the grandparent, I assume that we're referring to the western world. I am well aware that SuSE has a firm grip on the European world, if not the entire eastern hemisphere.
He's built clocks before, but I think this is his first working model. Of course, be sure to check out his Tux and BSD Daemon sculptures as well. This guy is a master at LEGO construction, and be sure to look for him in the future.
The Novell/Suse acquisition is still new. Novell just released their first version of Novell linux a few weeks ago, it's going to take some time to get momentum in the market. Suse didn't have a stronghold in the marketplace, so it's up to Novell to make that happen.
Novell is able to use their kickass server software and their existing customer base to launch their linux campaign. They are bundling their top notch support on top of their linux products (desktop for now, server to be released in the near future). Novell has one hell of a plan, and only Novell could pull it off.
I wouldn't worry about a thing, Novell is a strong company and quite ambitious when it comes to linux.
It amazes me to no end what passes as "news" these days on Slashdot. One person misinterpreting something automatically becomes news, and not just any old news, "OMFG the sky is falling" news.
Of all the distros out there, Redhat easily holds the market share on the corporate end. It makes sense to bundle Red Hat in a corporate statement than Slackware or Debian. Sure, they're fine distros, but when it comes to market share in the corporate world, it's hard to deny that Redhat has the biggest piece of the pie.
At any rate, the sky is not falling, and Sun's COO is NOT implying that Redhat owns linux.
Every so often I need info a thread that has gone dormant. Since a reply to the thread won't get a response, it sometimes makes sense to e-mail the author(s) directly. I have done this a few times, and even though sometimes the thread is almost 2 years old, I still get useful replies.
I agree that public listings of e-mail addresses is a good way to get spam, but it is useful enough that I hate to see it completely removed.
Hmm.. you'd have to ask an OO.o developer. I know they have a filter, because Abiword is the test bed for OO.o's WP import feature. It works very well! Not sure why that hasn't been slipped into the main tree.
Wouldn't "monopoly" imply that they have a significant user base?
I work in a Wordperfect shop. We have since started moving to Word. The users have literally started a mutiny against us, because we're taking away the superior WP product and giving them inferior Word. Some are to the point of taking their documents home and working on them in WP there, because they don't want to have to use Word. Word is an inferior product, no doubt about it.
Also, there is no such thing as WPD lock-in. WPD is one of the nicer formats out there, and if you've looked at Abiword or talked to the WP OO.o developers, you'll know that it's a lot easier to work with than.DOC. The WP format hasn't changed much since WP6.1, and opening up a WP6.1 files on Corel WP 12 is pretty slick. Try opening a complex Word document from even one version ago. Yeah, right. You'll be reformatting for hours. WP stays pretty standard on their format.
Let me guess, you've never used WP, and you've been brainwashed into thinking Word is better. Idiot.
From what I've gathered by reading the various sites, each news outlet is using their own modeling software to predict which states are a win for each candidate. Most have backed off and are producing more conservative numbers after the embarrassment of the 2000 election.
Since everyone has their own software, variables are weighted differently. The commonly used variables are previous unofficial polls, previous election data, exit polls, and of course, the actual tallies themselves. California is sitting at 10% reported, but given its track record and previous unfficial poll numbers, it's pretty easy to give California to Kerry. Once Ohio completes their precinct tally, you should see those numbers even up quite a bit.
In my precinct, we follow a similar process except that we have paper ballots instead of voting machines. The real kicker? Our slips of paper are black and white, I could easily slip into the back room and run off as many copies as I pleased. The only thing stopping me from doing so is my precinct size, everyone knows everyone so I'd be spotted if I tired to vote twice.
I can see how larger precints using the same tactics could be easily duped into lettng people vote several times.
Slashdot Mirror
What imaginary University do you go to?
I'm guessing you mean U of M Minneapolis. If you're looking for non-Windows boxes, have you even looked in the c-sci department? Not only is it crawling with linux geeks, there's even cooler stuff in the super computing center. Be sure to check out TCLUG if in doubt, there are MANY linux using U of M students.
Rumor has it that there are large blocks of Windows code set off with comments like
/* No one knows what this does, but failures occur without it */
/. article.
Unfortunately I don't have the reference, I think it was a previous
RECENT posts? I've always considered Dvorak a nut job.
Back when I lived in my apartment (98-99), I used to watch the Screensavers with Kate and Leo on ZDTV. Then this crappy show came on (can't think of the name) where Dvorak and his debate team of highly trained monkeys would argue over tech topics. Not relevent tech topics, no, just whatever pissed off Dvorak that day. It always boiled down to arguing over whether or not Dvorak was right, and had nothing to do with the topic at hand. I still remember the episode where Dvorak referred to the new iBook as a Hello Kitty purse. That was back in early 1999 I think. An entire HOUR of arguing back and forth, not about the iBook, but whether Dvorak was just making an ass of himself.
Dvorak is an idiot, and it's not just a recent development.
Let's just bash everything Microsoft makes. Better yet, let's bash the BETAS that Microsoft is publishing.
Longhorn:
I installed this piece of crap on my laptop. It didn't ask if I wanted to keep my linux partitions, it juts made me delete them. The default wallpaper is stupid, and how many users know to right click the desktop to change it? Also, the Win95 drivers shipped with my laptop don't work in Longhorn. And it keeps telling me about this "beta" thing that I supposedly installed. It's really slow on my PII-400.
WUS:
This thing requires an OS preinstalled. A WINDOWS OS. It requires IIS and IE installed. It doesn't deploy linux patches. Don't bother switching from yum to WUS, it's not going to work. It's still using that femmy blue theme.
What do you people want? Oh that's right, we want to see Microsoft fall flat on their face. Never fear, this is the probable cycle:
* MS buys technology
* MS repackages technology
* MS publishes betas and eventually ver 1.0
* Slashdot crowd gets nervous, posts negative reviews only.
* ver 1.0 is halfway decent
* MS decides to add "features"
* ver 2.0 ships. Twice as big as ver 1.0, and where are these alleged features?
* MS decides it should send mail (Zawinski's law)
* ver 3.0 ships. It sends e-mail now, but still puzzles users as to why they upgraded from ver 1.0
* ver 4.0 ships as an e-mail client, and no one remembers what the product was actually supposed to do
* ver 5.0 ships. It no longer sends mail or does what it originally did. Users await ver 6.0
* Product is EOL'd
Powell has done quite a number on BPL. I heard an engineer from the ARRL give a very detailed explanation of what the FCC is doing.
The jist of it is, the developers of BPL built devices that violate part 15. The FCC is still collecting data on this, to verify that it really is a part 15 violation. Yes, BPL clobbers HF and HUNDREDS of other services, but the question remains what is "harmful interference", and does the interference that BPL creates considered harmful? In reality, the FCC has added regulations to part 15 specifically for BPL. BPL devices are more regulated than any other device by part 15 rules.
What I still don't get is why the FCC has a hard on for extending broadband. Apparently you can break their rules, ANY of their rules as long as you're giving more people in the middle of nowhere access to faster internet. Why? Who knows. Hopefully someone will get in there and start to diminish the FCCs' role in rolling out high speed internet. I would think they have better things to do, like maybe protect the frequencies they've already allocated.
As for the future of BPL, the FCC is listening. They are collecting data and actually LISTENING to people, especially the ARRL. The ARRL has taken on the job of collecting data in test cities and submitting it to the FCC. The FCC is listening, and BPL will probably die once the FCC has a strong enough case to kill their hoirribly designed devices.
For daily news, the internet works well. Check the headlines, check sports scores, movie times, events, etc.
/. deals with that kind of traffic every day. Maybe the brains at /. that keep the site running under constant load could help these sites out. Just a thought.
Where big news breaks, so does the internet. Take a look at the Sept 11 attacks. ALL major news outlets were down. Slashdot stayed up*, but offered limited info. When it came down to it, radio and TV were the only reliable sources. The internet just can't handle demand for broadcast content. Even newspapers were able to get info printed before the internet outlets began to respond again.
The internet can be used as a news medium, but only when traffic permits.
* Have you guys ever thought of starting a news consulting service? CNN, Nytimes, USAToday, and most other new outlets can't handle the load.
Actually, it's just copied and pasted from the article.
Writing article summaries that read well is difficult. Even so, it'd be nice if people tried to get creative instead of just copying and pasting from the article verbatim.
I build my hardware from LEGO.
Any ideas on a suitable attenuator? I would imagine that you can attenuate the 100mW output down to 20 or 30, and bring it within limits. According to the FCC link in the grandparent, the FCC seems to be concerned more with your transmitter having a range of 200 feet or less, regardless of output power or antenna design.
Can anyone else recall any Ham Radio enthusiasts who went onto bigger things in Tech?
If I'm not mistaken, our local hero Bruce Perens is a licensed ham also.
This program also prints a copy of the story so I can read it at home in bedtime
Holy crap! This guy reads TFA! Mod him up!
Have you considered that the average Slashdotter probably knows that there's no link between September 11th and Iraq yet, when polled, half the people who voted for Bush said that Saddam Hussein was responsible?
Oh yeah, that automatically makes liberals right. Sorry, Bush won the election. The country voted. You lost. Get over it already.
In other words, the average Slashdotter isn't so dumb that they fell for the whole smoke and mirrors routine that the Bush administration has been running in its "war on terror"?
Oh that's right, Kerry was against the war. No wait, he was for the war. Or was he against the war. Or did he want the war to continue, but bring our troops home. Or was it the other way around. Oh wait, it was all of those, just at different times.
I'll stop tearing down Fox News when it starts reporting facts without first dripping them in right-wing bias and making up stories
Yeah, because the liberal media hasn't done this long before Fox News even existed. It's called EQUAL TIME. Yeah, they make up stuff to get their point across occasionally, but so does the liberal media. In fact, BOTH are biased and not to be trusted. Screw it, I only read the Onion from now on.
And if you're wondering why Bush won, just read my sig.
I'll take The New York Times over Fox "News" any time.
/. readers are liberal, but please stop tearing down Fox News. We put up with your liberal media crap, please put up with our conservative media crap.
I know the running jokes about Faux News. Ha ha, they're funny.
Did it ever occur to anyone that except for Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and sometimes NBC nightly news that television media is liberally biased? Foz News is fairly obvious about putting a conservative slant on their reporting, but how is that worse than ABC and CBS, going as far as reporting on forged info just to make liberals look good?
For those of us conservatives who are sick of watered down liberally biased news, Fox News is a sigh of relief.
Of course, it's pretty obvious that most
Is there even only one discipline where the point goes to plasma?
Out of the box, plasma usually has a brighter, clearer display. It's almost false advertising in a way. Plasma looks clear and beautiful when you buy it, but it quickly fades.
Anybody have details on this new DLP technology? I know nothing about it except that it supposedly has the clarity of plasma without the long term fading.
Based on the context of the grandparent, I assume that we're referring to the western world. I am well aware that SuSE has a firm grip on the European world, if not the entire eastern hemisphere.
This is the same Eric who built some guy's desk out of LEGO a few years back. He's been talked about on /. before, just check out his portfolio:
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http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/portfolio.htm
He's built clocks before, but I think this is his first working model. Of course, be sure to check out his Tux and BSD Daemon sculptures as well. This guy is a master at LEGO construction, and be sure to look for him in the future.
The Novell/Suse acquisition is still new. Novell just released their first version of Novell linux a few weeks ago, it's going to take some time to get momentum in the market. Suse didn't have a stronghold in the marketplace, so it's up to Novell to make that happen.
Novell is able to use their kickass server software and their existing customer base to launch their linux campaign. They are bundling their top notch support on top of their linux products (desktop for now, server to be released in the near future). Novell has one hell of a plan, and only Novell could pull it off.
I wouldn't worry about a thing, Novell is a strong company and quite ambitious when it comes to linux.
Thank You.
It amazes me to no end what passes as "news" these days on Slashdot. One person misinterpreting something automatically becomes news, and not just any old news, "OMFG the sky is falling" news.
Of all the distros out there, Redhat easily holds the market share on the corporate end. It makes sense to bundle Red Hat in a corporate statement than Slackware or Debian. Sure, they're fine distros, but when it comes to market share in the corporate world, it's hard to deny that Redhat has the biggest piece of the pie.
At any rate, the sky is not falling, and Sun's COO is NOT implying that Redhat owns linux.
What would be so bad about Email masking?
Every so often I need info a thread that has gone dormant. Since a reply to the thread won't get a response, it sometimes makes sense to e-mail the author(s) directly. I have done this a few times, and even though sometimes the thread is almost 2 years old, I still get useful replies.
I agree that public listings of e-mail addresses is a good way to get spam, but it is useful enough that I hate to see it completely removed.
Probably the same marketing geniuses that came up with the name Windows Update Services (WUS).
Yeah, you're probably right. My Bawls fridge is empty this morning so I had to go find some of that "other" caffeinated product.
Hmm.. you'd have to ask an OO.o developer. I know they have a filter, because Abiword is the test bed for OO.o's WP import feature. It works very well! Not sure why that hasn't been slipped into the main tree.
You're a fscking idiot.
.DOC. The WP format hasn't changed much since WP6.1, and opening up a WP6.1 files on Corel WP 12 is pretty slick. Try opening a complex Word document from even one version ago. Yeah, right. You'll be reformatting for hours. WP stays pretty standard on their format.
Wouldn't "monopoly" imply that they have a significant user base?
I work in a Wordperfect shop. We have since started moving to Word. The users have literally started a mutiny against us, because we're taking away the superior WP product and giving them inferior Word. Some are to the point of taking their documents home and working on them in WP there, because they don't want to have to use Word. Word is an inferior product, no doubt about it.
Also, there is no such thing as WPD lock-in. WPD is one of the nicer formats out there, and if you've looked at Abiword or talked to the WP OO.o developers, you'll know that it's a lot easier to work with than
Let me guess, you've never used WP, and you've been brainwashed into thinking Word is better. Idiot.
From what I've gathered by reading the various sites, each news outlet is using their own modeling software to predict which states are a win for each candidate. Most have backed off and are producing more conservative numbers after the embarrassment of the 2000 election.
Since everyone has their own software, variables are weighted differently. The commonly used variables are previous unofficial polls, previous election data, exit polls, and of course, the actual tallies themselves. California is sitting at 10% reported, but given its track record and previous unfficial poll numbers, it's pretty easy to give California to Kerry. Once Ohio completes their precinct tally, you should see those numbers even up quite a bit.
In my precinct, we follow a similar process except that we have paper ballots instead of voting machines. The real kicker? Our slips of paper are black and white, I could easily slip into the back room and run off as many copies as I pleased. The only thing stopping me from doing so is my precinct size, everyone knows everyone so I'd be spotted if I tired to vote twice.
I can see how larger precints using the same tactics could be easily duped into lettng people vote several times.