When I write a paper, I don't use word processor codes, so why when I want to make a website would I use HTML?
Ironically enough, when I was in college (in my pre-Linux years:-) I got so fed up with fscking Word that I started writing my papers in HTML. I knew the syntax in my sleep so it was WAY faster and less hassle than trying to figure out what all those damn icons meant, and why, when I clicked "insert table" it turned my entire document into a table (or a bulleted list, or a right-justified, indented title, or whatever it felt like at the moment). Load it into netscape, and hit "Print". Plus, I could focus on the content, type in all the text, just adding paragraph tags between each paragraph, then worry about formatting when I was done.
For those of you in college (or high school) now, with a good grasp of html, try it! You'll forget you ever thought you needed a word processor. And hopefully, you'll forget about [shudder] emacs, too (proposed Emacs tagline: "You can do anything in Emacs, if only you could figure out how to do anything in Emacs!")
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Agreed. No question about it. I was checking out Visual SlickEdit the other day, and it has many of the same features (for Linux, natch). Plus a lot of cool stuff if you're a perl hacker, too. ----------------------
I have a banshee card. There's no 3d support as of yet, but the X server is the same as the Rush server. Last I checked it's the 3.3.3_3 revision, which is pretty usable. 3.3.3_2 was really torturously slow. Couldn't do 1024x768 at 32bpp because the server couldn't keep us. But the newer one is quite decent. I expect it'll continue to improve quickly. ----------------------
Is anyone else just gleeful to be finally taken this seriously by the "mainstream?" I mean, look at what's happening here... the world's biggest and richest software company is so concerned about Linux that they're willing to risk their own credibility by publishing bogus test results. It's an OS written by a bunch of hackers versus Microsoft's flagship product, at which they've thrown dizzying quantities of cold cash. I frankly don't care how the results come out (if Linux wins though, it'll be a staggering blow to M$). The point is, that we are now big-time.
The Internet: Most successful software development company in history.
I had this problem too, with a 3-button mousesystems protocol mouse, playing Q2. I found that if the mouse pointer left the game window, it would do this when it came back (it's a horrible problem, makes the game totally unplayable when it happens). The only fix I could get to work was to make sure that "windowed mouse" was set, and that the mouse never left the game window. If it did, well, 'esc'->'q'->'y' and restart. Bye bye frags... ----------------------
I need the pci card. Everyone claims to have it, but noone has it in stock. Very frustrating... Now I'm thinking maybe TNT2, if nvidia really is going to support it under linux.
PS-- I ended up with a voodoo banshee. I know, I know, wtf was I thinking? Well, at least there is an X server, and the newest release of it (3.3.3_3) is not nearly as torturously slow as the last one. Grumble grumble bitch whine...;-) ----------------------
First off: The site looks really cool, I want to go back when I have some browsing time and energy! Only point you could take from everything is the random linkage feature, which keeps you moving around, and provides some connections that Ford himself wouldn't have thought of.
Secondly: who obviously have never had to do a professional site on a tight budget and deadline
As someone else mentioned, yeah, many of us have. For me, Linux (free) + Apache (free) + mod_perl (not only free, but blazing fast and low-overhead) always somehow ends up looking like the best server solution. Granted, I can have a box from naked to serving pages in a couple hours (at most), due to experience with the system. It'd be worth trying it out, especially if you're using perl. Perl is, deep down, a unix thing, and pretty much runs like a dog on NT (which has unfortunately gotten it a bad reputation among many NT bound manager-types I know). Just some ideas from a (hopefully) less insulting faction of the Linux community.:-)
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So who's going to take up the collection for slashdot's next hardware upgrade: the Katz Server? If jon's stories and associated comments were served from a different machine than the front page, problem solved, right? Even better would be a small array of boxes, all serving stories on a least-busy basis, so whoever had the bandwidth available would be called upon when someone clicked "read more". I think that as slashdot posts more original content, and accumulates more regular comment-posters, this may become necessary.
By the way, Katz article was brilliant. I thought Jonathan Yardley had the last word in the Washington Post yesterday, but Katz absolutely blew him away. Actually being in touch with the people you're claiming to represent makes a HUGE difference, and it shows. ----------------------
If I'm being really stupid here, please be gentle, but I don't see anything like that at that link, or on any pages connected to it. What's up? ----------------------
It seems to me, since the filtering system was implemented, that the responses to Katz' articles have cooled enormously. I read a lot of disagreements this time, but they're reasoned disagreement, not the frantic hate that we used to see in the wild, wild comments section of the olden days. This leads me to a theory:
Those people who have Katz filtered? They are the few people who knew they hated Katz, but read his articles and spammed us all with hate-posts anyway, because they couldn't control themselves. By filtering out Katz, they have saved the rest of us an awful lot of annoyance, and allowed those who are interested in debating the questions Jon raises a clearer channel.
If they have no control over their actions, I'm glad that there is at least a voluntary straitjacket they can climb into.
Yes, folks, it's true. Those cute bouncy pre-toddler furballs you see on tv? Where did you think they came from? The four on TV hatched from the first test production run of the iMac. And now there are millions of iMacs out there, like cute little timebombs, just waiting to crack open with a gargantuan "Hey-OH!!" I can only imagine the fear, the despair, the lines at Mac service centers nationwide when these things start hatching on a large scale.
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I couldn't put it better than Cato just did, but I want to at least agree. I'm running a dual PPro machine w/128M ram, and I can run Win95 in VMWare and play QuakeII with the softx renderer at the same time. So on decent hardware (this setup cost me about $1000), it's performance is splendid. Also, the main reason I want to have it, after being microsoft-free for a couple years, is that my girlfriend's job hunting, and she needs a decent, word-compatible word processor to write resumes and such on. And yes, I have WP8, and it's a piece of crap. Try it before you flame me on that. I have a fairly standard BJC4000 printer, and it won't print to it. And yes, I have StarOffice, and it doesn't cut it either. StarOffice slows my machne down way more than running all of Win95. How's that for a performance hit?
I also run it at work, because we're on an NT network with admins who don't know what the hell they're doing, and somehow they've made it so no matter what I do, Samba will simply not communicate with the network. So now, when some moron emails me that "The file's on the E: drive", instead of thinking "Well, wtf's that supposed to mean?" I can just fire up the winbloze and ftp it to myself. Try explaining ftp to your average office drone. It's amazing, these people have never heard of it.
In any case, I think an OSS vmware clone is a nifty idea. And it continues to disturb me when new OSS projects get the rotisserie treatment on Slashdot. I thought we were Open-Source's proponents here? How bout some of us try opening our minds a little, along with our software? ----------------------
But of course, it had Keanu in it, so like any good drone, I thought to myself "must...watch...Keanu." As it turns out, this movie is easily the best hacker movie ever made, probably the best action movie ever made, and might very well be my favorite movie ever. Imagine if John Woo's Hard Boiled, Aliens, the Terminator (I), the FX from T2, everything Wm. Gibson ever wrote, and Jackie Chan met in a dark alley in the future. Yeah, it's THAT good. Tip for those in the DC area, see it at the Uptown on Conn. Ave. Prequel preview included as well!:-) ----------------------
I think Sink's article is completely right on, vis a vis what is needed in a 2nd gen Open Source evangelist.
That said, I'd like to formally nominate our very own CT for the job. Think about it, folks. He's been evangelizing (via slashdot) for several years now, and I think it's obvious that he's been VERY successful at building the community. I, for one, was pretty much introduced to Linux and OSS through Slashdot. Anyone else agree here? ----------------------
That wasn't really a question about whether or not netscape 4.5 is out. I know it is, because I'm using it. So to summarize:
Yes, all versions of netscape crash on mailto's.
4.5 (and 4.08) are available in both libc5 and glibc versions. Officially the glibc version is unsupported, but it's there.
The libc5 version crashes if you look at it funny. Like, try loading freshmeat with it!
The glibc version crashes almost never.
Both are available as either a navigator-only or a full communicator package
4.5 (even glibc) still leaks memory from the text widget, 'tis true. Don't try to write a long email in a web-based mailer!
What my question was is, why the hell doesn't redhat have 4.5? And while they're at it, why don't they throw us a bone and include the glibc unsupported (but functional) one?!
It's good to see GNOME and KDE together at last though:) ----------------------
What's with the netscape 4.08? 4.5's been out for quite some time...
Otherwise, all I can say is kick-ass! new GNOME, new KDE, new e, new Windowmaker, 2.2.3 kernel... I'm going to be setting up my new machine in a week or two, and I know what distro's going on it:-) ----------------------
The first time I hit the "deconstruction" line, I thought, 'Oh, Christ. Not again...'. Geeks have it easy in the wrong word department. At least "hacker" is sometimes used correctly, whereas "deconstruction", in my experience, is never used right. Here's a quick primer for the unfamiliar:
'Deconstruction' != 'taking apart'
But I read it again, and, although I suspect he doesn't even know it, he did sort of get the idea right. In the first two sentences at least. The method of deconstruction is indeed very much like a litererary version of an IP-spoofing attack. The idea is to take a central metaphor or comparison in the work in question, and see how it can become unstable, through different readings, different meanings of the words, etc. Much like a supposedly "priveleged" host can be taken over by a "trusted" subordinate machine (which is of course being spoofed by a totally different machine, the "supplement" in deconstructo-speak). So bravo for this point, which is a new one on me.
The next sentence, of course goes on to provide evidence that he has no idea what he just said, with all that blather about the big picture, which is pretty much the opposite of what deconstruction is about, and hacking, for that matter. PHB's are the people who see the "big picture". That's what they're there for. New-critics, Marxist critics, Feminists... in the world of words, these are the PHB's; the big-picture types. And thus, he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
I say keep, but then again, I don't feel like I have much right to tell Rob what to put here anyway. I just wanted to bitch about the world's lack of understanding of, and continuous perverse need to misuse, deconstruction.
P.S. Sorry about all the "quotes". It's hard to restrain myself when I get writing about deconstruction:-) ----------------------
Just arrived in the mail yesterday! The first parts of my new computer-- and Intel PR440FX (Providence) MoBo, w/onboard sound (Crystal, I hope this doen't become a problem), 10/100 ethernet, and Adaptec 7880 SCSI. Oh yeah, it's a dual Socket 8 (PPro) board. Also got two 180Mhz PPro processors (with the 256k cache, hey, I'm not a millionaire!). The board's about $120, and the processors are $100-ish each. Everyone's so excited about the whoop-dee-doo pentium two and the whoop-dee-dee pentium three that ppro chips are cheap these days.
This is a kick-ass board for clustering, due to the dual procs, builtin ethernet, and scsi. One of the first beowulf clusters used just about exactly the configuration I'm going for for their client nodes. I forget which one, but do a web search for "Intel PR440FX" and it'll probably come up.
I can't wait to get some memory and a drive (and some misc. stuff), and fire this puppy up! Anyone else used this board for linux? Or have any recommendations for a HDD and video card? ----------------------
Here's my solution: I'm right-handed, so to be able to keep my hand on the mouse and navigate desktops easily, I bound left-handed hotkeys-- ALT-` to switch desktops left and ALT-1 to switch right. ALT-Q and ALT-TAB cycle through windows, ALT-A gives me the apps menu and ALT-W gives me the windows menu.
Once you become accustomed to them, it's a very efficient system. Not to mention that when you enable sloppy focus on the mouse, you get to watch windroids stare totally helplessly at the screen, having no idea how to do anything. It's very amusing.:)
"Ack! Where did the window go??!! Where's the menu? What do I do with all these big squares on the right??!" Hehehehehe ----------------------
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Ironically enough, when I was in college (in my pre-Linux years :-) I got so fed up with fscking Word that I started writing my papers in HTML. I knew the syntax in my sleep so it was WAY faster and less hassle than trying to figure out what all those damn icons meant, and why, when I clicked "insert table" it turned my entire document into a table (or a bulleted list, or a right-justified, indented title, or whatever it felt like at the moment). Load it into netscape, and hit "Print". Plus, I could focus on the content, type in all the text, just adding paragraph tags between each paragraph, then worry about formatting when I was done.
For those of you in college (or high school) now, with a good grasp of html, try it! You'll forget you ever thought you needed a word processor. And hopefully, you'll forget about [shudder] emacs, too (proposed Emacs tagline: "You can do anything in Emacs, if only you could figure out how to do anything in Emacs!")
Cent 2 on this issue for me :-)
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Agreed. No question about it. I was checking out Visual SlickEdit the other day, and it has many of the same features (for Linux, natch). Plus a lot of cool stuff if you're a perl hacker, too.
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I have a banshee card. There's no 3d support as of yet, but the X server is the same as the Rush server. Last I checked it's the 3.3.3_3 revision, which is pretty usable. 3.3.3_2 was really torturously slow. Couldn't do 1024x768 at 32bpp because the server couldn't keep us. But the newer one is quite decent. I expect it'll continue to improve quickly.
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The Internet: Most successful software development company in history.
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I had this problem too, with a 3-button mousesystems protocol mouse, playing Q2. I found that if the mouse pointer left the game window, it would do this when it came back (it's a horrible problem, makes the game totally unplayable when it happens). The only fix I could get to work was to make sure that "windowed mouse" was set, and that the mouse never left the game window. If it did, well, 'esc'->'q'->'y' and restart. Bye bye frags...
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PS-- I ended up with a voodoo banshee. I know, I know, wtf was I thinking? Well, at least there is an X server, and the newest release of it (3.3.3_3) is not nearly as torturously slow as the last one. Grumble grumble bitch whine... ;-)
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Secondly:
who obviously have never had to do a professional site on a tight budget and deadline
As someone else mentioned, yeah, many of us have. For me, Linux (free) + Apache (free) + mod_perl (not only free, but blazing fast and low-overhead) always somehow ends up looking like the best server solution. Granted, I can have a box from naked to serving pages in a couple hours (at most), due to experience with the system. It'd be worth trying it out, especially if you're using perl. Perl is, deep down, a unix thing, and pretty much runs like a dog on NT (which has unfortunately gotten it a bad reputation among many NT bound manager-types I know). Just some ideas from a (hopefully) less insulting faction of the Linux community. :-)
You guys are off to a good start, keep it up!
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By the way, Katz article was brilliant. I thought Jonathan Yardley had the last word in the Washington Post yesterday, but Katz absolutely blew him away. Actually being in touch with the people you're claiming to represent makes a HUGE difference, and it shows.
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"Error Type 3. User IQ (-4) out of range (0..200). Please reboot."
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If I'm being really stupid here, please be gentle, but I don't see anything like that at that link, or on any pages connected to it. What's up?
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Those people who have Katz filtered? They are the few people who knew they hated Katz, but read his articles and spammed us all with hate-posts anyway, because they couldn't control themselves. By filtering out Katz, they have saved the rest of us an awful lot of annoyance, and allowed those who are interested in debating the questions Jon raises a clearer channel.
If they have no control over their actions, I'm glad that there is at least a voluntary straitjacket they can climb into.
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not hackers. That is all.
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Not to mention, where are we gonna find enough Tubby Toast to feed them all?
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I also run it at work, because we're on an NT network with admins who don't know what the hell they're doing, and somehow they've made it so no matter what I do, Samba will simply not communicate with the network. So now, when some moron emails me that "The file's on the E: drive", instead of thinking "Well, wtf's that supposed to mean?" I can just fire up the winbloze and ftp it to myself. Try explaining ftp to your average office drone. It's amazing, these people have never heard of it.
In any case, I think an OSS vmware clone is a nifty idea. And it continues to disturb me when new OSS projects get the rotisserie treatment on Slashdot. I thought we were Open-Source's proponents here? How bout some of us try opening our minds a little, along with our software?
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I've heard it's Lucas's favorite theater outside of Hollywood.
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"Pappas. What a hard-on."
--Point Break
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But of course, it had Keanu in it, so like any good drone, I thought to myself "must...watch...Keanu." As it turns out, this movie is easily the best hacker movie ever made, probably the best action movie ever made, and might very well be my favorite movie ever. Imagine if John Woo's Hard Boiled, Aliens, the Terminator (I), the FX from T2, everything Wm. Gibson ever wrote, and Jackie Chan met in a dark alley in the future. Yeah, it's THAT good. Tip for those in the DC area, see it at the Uptown on Conn. Ave. Prequel preview included as well! :-)
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That said, I'd like to formally nominate our very own CT for the job. Think about it, folks. He's been evangelizing (via slashdot) for several years now, and I think it's obvious that he's been VERY successful at building the community. I, for one, was pretty much introduced to Linux and OSS through Slashdot. Anyone else agree here?
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- Yes, all versions of netscape crash on mailto's.
- 4.5 (and 4.08) are available in both libc5 and glibc versions. Officially the glibc version is unsupported, but it's there.
- The libc5 version crashes if you look at it funny. Like, try loading freshmeat with it!
- The glibc version crashes almost never.
- Both are available as either a navigator-only or a full communicator package
- 4.5 (even glibc) still leaks memory from the text widget, 'tis true. Don't try to write a long email in a web-based mailer!
What my question was is, why the hell doesn't redhat have 4.5? And while they're at it, why don't they throw us a bone and include the glibc unsupported (but functional) one?!It's good to see GNOME and KDE together at last though :)
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Otherwise, all I can say is kick-ass! new GNOME, new KDE, new e, new Windowmaker, 2.2.3 kernel... I'm going to be setting up my new machine in a week or two, and I know what distro's going on it :-)
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'Deconstruction' != 'taking apart'
But I read it again, and, although I suspect he doesn't even know it, he did sort of get the idea right. In the first two sentences at least. The method of deconstruction is indeed very much like a litererary version of an IP-spoofing attack. The idea is to take a central metaphor or comparison in the work in question, and see how it can become unstable, through different readings, different meanings of the words, etc. Much like a supposedly "priveleged" host can be taken over by a "trusted" subordinate machine (which is of course being spoofed by a totally different machine, the "supplement" in deconstructo-speak). So bravo for this point, which is a new one on me.
The next sentence, of course goes on to provide evidence that he has no idea what he just said, with all that blather about the big picture, which is pretty much the opposite of what deconstruction is about, and hacking, for that matter. PHB's are the people who see the "big picture". That's what they're there for. New-critics, Marxist critics, Feminists... in the world of words, these are the PHB's; the big-picture types. And thus, he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
I say keep, but then again, I don't feel like I have much right to tell Rob what to put here anyway. I just wanted to bitch about the world's lack of understanding of, and continuous perverse need to misuse, deconstruction.
P.S. Sorry about all the "quotes". It's hard to restrain myself when I get writing about deconstruction :-)
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If you're willing to put up with the machine crashing "only maybe once a day"...
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This is a kick-ass board for clustering, due to the dual procs, builtin ethernet, and scsi. One of the first beowulf clusters used just about exactly the configuration I'm going for for their client nodes. I forget which one, but do a web search for "Intel PR440FX" and it'll probably come up.
I can't wait to get some memory and a drive (and some misc. stuff), and fire this puppy up! Anyone else used this board for linux? Or have any recommendations for a HDD and video card?
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I'm right-handed, so to be able to keep my hand on the mouse and navigate desktops easily, I bound left-handed hotkeys-- ALT-` to switch desktops left and ALT-1 to switch right. ALT-Q and ALT-TAB cycle through windows, ALT-A gives me the apps menu and ALT-W gives me the windows menu.
Once you become accustomed to them, it's a very efficient system. Not to mention that when you enable sloppy focus on the mouse, you get to watch windroids stare totally helplessly at the screen, having no idea how to do anything. It's very amusing. :)
"Ack! Where did the window go??!! Where's the menu? What do I do with all these big squares on the right??!" Hehehehehe
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And you can't have her, cause she's mine.
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