This guy acted vindictively and unnecessarily harsh and inconvenienced hundreds of people. I don't trust him.
I don't trust you either. Mainly because you are posting anonymously and seem to have suspiciously strong opinions about this guy.
Without any evidence to the contrary or reason to trust you, I can't help wondering if the deleted mails weren't all ASCII art Goatse trolls posted by you.
Sorry, but you appear to have an agenda and you're not prepared to put your name to the accusations. That's dangerously close to the definition of "troll" in my opinion.
Don't be surprised if this site just up and disappears one day, taking all of the data with it.
You're quite right - this is a very real risk.
What we really need is some kind of tool for easily making copies of websites like this and all of the data & source code they contain.
You know, a tool for getting complete copies of websites. Of course it would need a short and catchy name, maybe something like Wget would fit the bill.
In fact, this is such an original and paradigm-shifting idea that I think I'm going to run off and patent it. I'm assuming from the comments that there's no prior art in this area.
There's only one thing worse than repetitive, uncreative, irrelevant trolls.
It's the fucktards that reply to them on a point-by-point basis as if it does anything other than justifying the trolling.
Next time you feel the need to reply to such a lame, obvious troll, try sucking your own cock instead. It's an endeavor that will doubtless keep you occupied for days and be far less distasteful to onlookers.
If Steve isn't willing to give me registers by switching to x86, then this CPU could be sitting on my desktop in the future instead of my Macs.
Yes, because as all Mac zealots know, the Intel architecture only has 8 x 16bit registers.
Current Intel/AMD CPUs certainly don't have 16 general purpose 64 bit registers. And what about all the SIMD registers? No, they don't exist at all.
And I've even heard people try and claim that all modern Intel/AMD processors have huge register files (admittedly not under direct control) to allow swapping to prevent stalls.
But they're obviously just lying PC fanatics.
Oh well, at least you didn't say that x86 is bad 'cos it's got a like segmented architecture and shit. So you're obviously much more educated than the average Mac zealot.
Too bad that at LinuxTag 2005 all you will get to see is a looped video on running "real time" on "similar hardware" simulating the great development advanced you will be able to achieve with the new cell processor.
Ahhh, was diddums all dissapointed by the games he got with the PS2 Mummy bought him?
Whilst I feel the deepest sympathy for you, I fail to see how this is relevant to Linux running on the Cell. Not a lot of scope for pre-rendered 3D demos to impress the kernel geeks is there?
Microsoft announces that they are going to do something that Slashdot has wanted them to do for ages, and Slashdot proceeds to find faults with it?
Leaving aside that fact that, like you, Slashdot is not an intelligent entity with needs and desires, this is not what we wanted.
We want an open, documented and non-patent encumbered format that allows interoperability between Office and other software.
That is not what this is.
Another poster has already provided a link that will tell you everything you need to know about the conditions attached to these formats.
They have patented everything. You will need to licence their patents in order to use these formats in your software.
That makes them useless. And yet you want us to get down on our knees and praise Microsoft for their generosity? With all due respect, you are either a Microsoft shill or a fucking retard. Not that I am suggesting that those two options are mutually exclusive.
Yeah, sure, mod this a troll, but think about it a bit.
OK, I've thought about it a bit.
And I've come to the conclusion that people write free software to please themselves.
If you want them to write free software to please you and your views regarding the rightful place of Linux in the business World, then you or somebody else needs to pay them to do so.
It's funny - it didn't take me more than half a second of thought to come to that stunningly obvious conclusion. So I'm wondering why you couldn't have done the same?
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reverting to old 1.04 worst waste of 30 minutes
reading lame post on slashdot from anonymous coward whining about alpha software because too dumb to use new profile
It's funny how I have no such problems on any of the 6 ATI systems I deal with daily.
Not really, I doubt that you do anything significant enough with them that you would run into their quirks and limitations.
And "deal with daily"? You don't own them do you? They belong to your employer don't they?
Let me translate for you : The 6 ATI systems that I can see when I'm cleaning the office after everyone has gone home don't have any problems that I know about. But then they are all switched off. Except the one I'm posting this comment from. Please don't tell my boss.
Then it's only fair to keep in mind while reading his rebuttal that Hannibal has been writing CPU Tech articles for the last 5 years and is extremely well respected.
Blachford is an unemployed attention seeking non-entity with kooky ideas and the only respect he gets is from people equally eager to swallow the Cell hype.
Plus, windows are ahead because their ipsec stack does work. In linuxland, ipsec is supposed to be implemented by openswan, but last time I checked it was sort of incomplete and configuration was somewhat difficult.
This may well have been true the last time you checked, but it is now totally wrong. 2.6 has kernel level crypto support and uses the Racoon userland tools for IPSEC. It's basically the same as OpenBSD in terms of setup and functionality.
It took me about 5 minutes to set up a tunnel between 2 Linux boxes the first time I tried. Of course you need to understand the concepts a little, whereas I'm sure on Windows anyone can set it up.
Which is not necessarily a good thing, because IPSEC provides more than enough oppurtunity for you to shoot yourself in the foot. Both feet in fact. Twice. With a shotgun. It also provides enough rope to hang yourself with while you're doing the shooting.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Blachford is a complete kook. He thinks he's invented a means of faster than light travel and if that isn't obvious kooksign, I don't know what is.
Oh, and he writes for OSNews. Two strikes and you're out kookboy.
Unfortunately he wrote a piece stating that Apple would adopt the Cell for Macs, making them the ultimate gaming platform. So he has plenty of people willing to defend him, realism not being one of the premier traits of the Mac community.
Please don't disagree until you've explored his site a bit or you will make yourself look foolish.
And as another poster said - check the rebuttal to his wide eyed claims on Ars Technica. You don't mess with Hannibal, beeyatch.
How very perceptive of you. I can see it's going to be difficult to get anything past you.
People post all kinds of crap on here, which makes the good, ON-TOPIC posts stand out more.
Quite right. Looking through your posting history I can't help wondering - are you thinking of writing one at any point?
I think bragging about how you can run Red Hat with no problems instead of discussing the actually issues mentioned in the post is off-topic and lame.
I don't really give a shit about Ded Rat to be quite honest. It's nearly as brain damaged as Windows in my experience. I wouldn't touch it with a shitty stick if I weren't paid good money to do so.
The reason for my reply was that you were being an insulting little prick. Now that's fine when it's done with any style or originality, but you can't even manage that. Just tired old cliches that betray your utter lack of personality.
And here's the thing - people with tedious personalities and no sense of humour tend not be terribly successful with women. Unless you are a multi-millionaire with a 12inch cock, I find it hard to believe that you speak from a position of strength when you trot out the old "you use Linux so you're smelly and can't get laid" lines.
You are a waste of carbon and your shitty posts are a waste of electrons. Have you ever considered Usenet as an outlet for your stunning insights? You'd fit right in.
In my opinion a new internet will be crippled by monitoring like security and tracking. Half of internet2 when i goes mainstream will be used for tracing users for illegal activity.
Internet2 is a research network and will never go mainstream.
The IPv6 standard makes IPSEC support compulsory which doesn't exactly make it easier for the Man to monitor your Kazaa downloads.
I think the tin foil hat is restricting the blood supply to your brain.
And Juniper Networks is pushing the idea that IPv6 is not on anybody's agenda because sell routers, NAT boxes and associated services.
I'm pretty sure that Juniper sell IPv6 compliant kit and would love to sell more of it.
I know for a fact that they sell VPN kit - NAT & IPSEC go together like oil and water. Yes, I know it does work but it's still a pain in the ass and I say this as someone that has to do it for a living.
Remember kids, implementing IPSEC NAT-Traversal makes the baby Jesus cry.
How about providing static IP addresses to DSL and cable modem users, so we can actually use simple DNS (or even just memorized IP addresses)
You think you can memorise IPv6 addresses? You must have a seriously good memory. Either that or you've never actually tried.
Personally, I have memorised about 100 IPv4 addresses. But I'm not sure I could memorise even a single IPv6 address.
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I won't begin to even get into how much the PS2 has evolved without evolving. It's got 24 mb of fucking RAM!! DUDE, do you not see the games it can push?! How dare you disrespect such an underpowered machine, and what people have done with it!
You seem to be getting extremely upset about something utterly trivial. If you ever hear voices in your head telling you to pick up a gun and settle some scores with all these people "disrespecting" the PS2, it may be better to seek help instead.
I also enjoyed the way you lambast the original poster for daring to suggest the PS2 thecnology was overhyped and then finish by calling it "such an underpowered machine".
I'd like to end by stating that I have never owned a console, have no intention of ever doing so and couldn't give a flying fuck which of the "next gen" consoles sell the most units. So please don't include me on your hitlist.
I do however enjoy taunting people who believe any sort of corportate PR or hype, just in case you're wondering about my motivations.
Hope this helps and hope that you seek help before it's too late.
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Because every developer on the floor knew that the most impressive demos for the PS3 were totally prerendered.
While I generally frown on blatant karma whores who post links to Penny Arcade strips in the vain hope that some of the humour will rub off on themselves, I think that this one is particularly appropriate:
...allow me to translate the press release into reality:
New technology, called Articulated Optical - DVD will allow 40-100 times more data (upto 850 Gb) to be lost from a DVD at a speed 5-30 times faster than today's DVDs, and at a truly ridiculous cost. AO - DVD is a novel technique of destroying data on the surface of a DVD by using reflective nano-structures to completely fuck up your data beyond any means of recovery in a highly multi-level format.
In any case, even on that level (and as I said on another branch), Microsoft have the longer experience in VMs - anyone who was using Java right at inception (like me) knows what a huge step forward their JVM was over Sun's original...
Dude, you were doing so well up until that point. Then you had to go and blow it by claiming that Microsoft's JVM was an huge leap forward compared to Sun's JVM.
I mean, come on! You could have strung this troll out a lot longer if you'd just been a bit more subtle.
But no, you had to go and shoot your load too early. Apparently a common condition amongst Slashdot trolls, on-line and off.
Next time try thinking of RMS and counting to a hundred.
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This guy acted vindictively and unnecessarily harsh and inconvenienced hundreds of people.
I don't trust him.
I don't trust you either. Mainly because you are posting anonymously and seem to have suspiciously strong opinions about this guy.
Without any evidence to the contrary or reason to trust you, I can't help wondering if the deleted mails weren't all ASCII art Goatse trolls posted by you.
Sorry, but you appear to have an agenda and you're not prepared to put your name to the accusations. That's dangerously close to the definition of "troll" in my opinion.
Don't be surprised if this site just up and disappears one day, taking all of the data with it.
You're quite right - this is a very real risk.
What we really need is some kind of tool for easily making copies of websites like this and all of the data & source code they contain.
You know, a tool for getting complete copies of websites. Of course it would need a short and catchy name, maybe something like Wget would fit the bill.
In fact, this is such an original and paradigm-shifting idea that I think I'm going to run off and patent it. I'm assuming from the comments that there's no prior art in this area.
Oh wow, I don't know where to start.
There's only one thing worse than repetitive, uncreative, irrelevant trolls.
It's the fucktards that reply to them on a point-by-point basis as if it does anything other than justifying the trolling.
Next time you feel the need to reply to such a lame, obvious troll, try sucking your own cock instead. It's an endeavor that will doubtless keep you occupied for days and be far less distasteful to onlookers.
If Steve isn't willing to give me registers by switching to x86, then this CPU could be sitting on my desktop in the future instead of my Macs.
Yes, because as all Mac zealots know, the Intel architecture only has 8 x 16bit registers.
Current Intel/AMD CPUs certainly don't have 16 general purpose 64 bit registers. And what about all the SIMD registers? No, they don't exist at all.
And I've even heard people try and claim that all modern Intel/AMD processors have huge register files (admittedly not under direct control) to allow swapping to prevent stalls.
But they're obviously just lying PC fanatics.
Oh well, at least you didn't say that x86 is bad 'cos it's got a like segmented architecture and shit. So you're obviously much more educated than the average Mac zealot.
Too bad that at LinuxTag 2005 all you will get to see is a looped video on running "real time" on "similar hardware" simulating the great development advanced you will be able to achieve with the new cell processor.
Ahhh, was diddums all dissapointed by the games he got with the PS2 Mummy bought him?
Whilst I feel the deepest sympathy for you, I fail to see how this is relevant to Linux running on the Cell. Not a lot of scope for pre-rendered 3D demos to impress the kernel geeks is there?
Microsoft announces that they are going to do something that Slashdot has wanted them to do for ages, and Slashdot proceeds to find faults with it?
Leaving aside that fact that, like you, Slashdot is not an intelligent entity with needs and desires, this is not what we wanted.
We want an open, documented and non-patent encumbered format that allows interoperability between Office and other software.
That is not what this is.
Another poster has already provided a link that will tell you everything you need to know about the conditions attached to these formats.
They have patented everything. You will need to licence their patents in order to use these formats in your software.
That makes them useless. And yet you want us to get down on our knees and praise Microsoft for their generosity? With all due respect, you are either a Microsoft shill or a fucking retard. Not that I am suggesting that those two options are mutually exclusive.
Yeah, sure, mod this a troll, but think about it a bit.
OK, I've thought about it a bit.
And I've come to the conclusion that people write free software to please themselves.
If you want them to write free software to please you and your views regarding the rightful place of Linux in the business World, then you or somebody else needs to pay them to do so.
It's funny - it didn't take me more than half a second of thought to come to that stunningly obvious conclusion. So I'm wondering why you couldn't have done the same?
Sorry, the correct link is here
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Hmmm, are we sure this isn't a joke?
This line in particular sounds a little dubious
"This probably means the end of The Pirate Bay and we, the crew, apologize for all loss of income caused by our activity over the years."
Also, can anyone read Swedish? Because if you follow the link to http://www.antipiratbyran.com/, all you get is the following text
Svenska Antipiratbyrån är snart tillbaka
Ny site kommer inom kort.
But it only plays British games because the US releases are not in colour.
Wow. This has to be the first time that I've ever seen someone flamed on-line because their spelling wasn't retarded enough.
bookmark folder not showing
nav buttons disabled (dead)
some (important) plugin not compatible
cant even find "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" on about:config
reverting to old 1.04
worst waste of 30 minutes
reading lame post on slashdot from anonymous coward
whining about alpha software
because too dumb to use new profile
reverting to kuro5hin
worst waste of 30 seconds
It's funny how I have no such problems on any of the 6 ATI systems I deal with daily.
Not really, I doubt that you do anything significant enough with them that you would run into their quirks and limitations.
And "deal with daily"? You don't own them do you? They belong to your employer don't they?
Let me translate for you : The 6 ATI systems that I can see when I'm cleaning the office after everyone has gone home don't have any problems that I know about. But then they are all switched off. Except the one I'm posting this comment from. Please don't tell my boss.
Only on Slashdot would this be modded "Interesting".
That is all.
Crossfire may be able to support up to 32 graphic chips, sources said. -Tom's Hardware guide
And by the time ATI release the 15th driver revision, 2 of them might actually work reliably.
I just got an HP ZV6000 series laptop, featuring an AMD 64 processor. I got it with all the intention of installing Ubuntu for AMD 64 on it.
There are no drivers for the video card, you can get X.org sort of working with the vesa driver.
Let me guess - ATI chipset?
Another question - are you comparing with the 64bit version of XP? You're not are you?
Have you tried 32bit Linux on it? I would put money on it working a lot better.
I mean for God's sake, what advantage are you expecting from 64bit support on a laptop?
Planning on installing more than 4GB of RAM are you?
Try comparing like for like. And seek help for your masochist tendencies.
It's only fair to look at Blachford's rebuttal to Hannibals critique. http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Rebuttal. html
Then it's only fair to keep in mind while reading his rebuttal that Hannibal has been writing CPU Tech articles for the last 5 years and is extremely well respected.
Blachford is an unemployed attention seeking non-entity with kooky ideas and the only respect he gets is from people equally eager to swallow the Cell hype.
Plus, windows are ahead because their ipsec stack does work. In linuxland, ipsec is supposed to be implemented by openswan, but last time I checked it was sort of incomplete and configuration was somewhat difficult.
This may well have been true the last time you checked, but it is now totally wrong. 2.6 has kernel level crypto support and uses the Racoon userland tools for IPSEC. It's basically the same as OpenBSD in terms of setup and functionality.
It took me about 5 minutes to set up a tunnel between 2 Linux boxes the first time I tried. Of course you need to understand the concepts a little, whereas I'm sure on Windows anyone can set it up.
Which is not necessarily a good thing, because IPSEC provides more than enough oppurtunity for you to shoot yourself in the foot. Both feet in fact. Twice. With a shotgun. It also provides enough rope to hang yourself with while you're doing the shooting.
Guess it is time to invest in Sony and IBM! This technology really looks promising, especially when you read this article --> http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell5.htm l
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Blachford is a complete kook. He thinks he's invented a means of faster than light travel and if that isn't obvious kooksign, I don't know what is.
Oh, and he writes for OSNews. Two strikes and you're out kookboy.
Unfortunately he wrote a piece stating that Apple would adopt the Cell for Macs, making them the ultimate gaming platform. So he has plenty of people willing to defend him, realism not being one of the premier traits of the Mac community.
Please don't disagree until you've explored his site a bit or you will make yourself look foolish.
And as another poster said - check the rebuttal to his wide eyed claims on Ars Technica. You don't mess with Hannibal, beeyatch.
are you flaming?
How very perceptive of you. I can see it's going to be difficult to get anything past you.
People post all kinds of crap on here, which makes the good, ON-TOPIC posts stand out more.
Quite right. Looking through your posting history I can't help wondering - are you thinking of writing one at any point?
I think bragging about how you can run Red Hat with no problems instead of discussing the actually issues mentioned in the post is off-topic and lame.
I don't really give a shit about Ded Rat to be quite honest. It's nearly as brain damaged as Windows in my experience. I wouldn't touch it with a shitty stick if I weren't paid good money to do so.
The reason for my reply was that you were being an insulting little prick. Now that's fine when it's done with any style or originality, but you can't even manage that. Just tired old cliches that betray your utter lack of personality.
And here's the thing - people with tedious personalities and no sense of humour tend not be terribly successful with women. Unless you are a multi-millionaire with a 12inch cock, I find it hard to believe that you speak from a position of strength when you trot out the old "you use Linux so you're smelly and can't get laid" lines.
You are a waste of carbon and your shitty posts are a waste of electrons. Have you ever considered Usenet as an outlet for your stunning insights? You'd fit right in.
In my opinion a new internet will be crippled by
monitoring like security and tracking. Half of
internet2 when i goes mainstream will be used for
tracing users for illegal activity.
Internet2 is a research network and will never go mainstream.
The IPv6 standard makes IPSEC support compulsory which doesn't exactly make it easier for the Man to monitor your Kazaa downloads.
I think the tin foil hat is restricting the blood supply to your brain.
And Juniper Networks is pushing the idea that IPv6 is not on anybody's agenda because sell routers, NAT boxes and associated services.
I'm pretty sure that Juniper sell IPv6 compliant kit and would love to sell more of it.
I know for a fact that they sell VPN kit - NAT & IPSEC go together like oil and water. Yes, I know it does work but it's still a pain in the ass and I say this as someone that has to do it for a living.
Remember kids, implementing IPSEC NAT-Traversal makes the baby Jesus cry.
How about providing static IP addresses to DSL and cable modem users, so we can actually use simple DNS (or even just memorized IP addresses)
You think you can memorise IPv6 addresses? You must have a seriously good memory. Either that or you've never actually tried.
Personally, I have memorised about 100 IPv4 addresses. But I'm not sure I could memorise even a single IPv6 address.
I won't begin to even get into how much the PS2 has evolved without evolving. It's got 24 mb of fucking RAM!! DUDE, do you not see the games it can push?! How dare you disrespect such an underpowered machine, and what people have done with it!
You seem to be getting extremely upset about something utterly trivial. If you ever hear voices in your head telling you to pick up a gun and settle some scores with all these people "disrespecting" the PS2, it may be better to seek help instead.
I also enjoyed the way you lambast the original poster for daring to suggest the PS2 thecnology was overhyped and then finish by calling it "such an underpowered machine".
I'd like to end by stating that I have never owned a console, have no intention of ever doing so and couldn't give a flying fuck which of the "next gen" consoles sell the most units. So please don't include me on your hitlist.
I do however enjoy taunting people who believe any sort of corportate PR or hype, just in case you're wondering about my motivations.
Hope this helps and hope that you seek help before it's too late.
Because every developer on the floor knew that the most impressive demos for the PS3 were totally prerendered.
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While I generally frown on blatant karma whores who post links to Penny Arcade strips in the vain hope that some of the humour will rub off on themselves, I think that this one is particularly appropriate
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-0
I will now spend the rest of the evening frantically flagellating myself with barbed wire in an attempt to atone for this act of rank hypocrisy.
...allow me to translate the press release into reality :
New technology, called Articulated Optical - DVD will allow 40-100 times more data (upto 850 Gb) to be lost from a DVD at a speed 5-30 times faster than today's DVDs, and at a truly ridiculous cost. AO - DVD is a novel technique of destroying data on the surface of a DVD by using reflective nano-structures to completely fuck up your data beyond any means of recovery in a highly multi-level format.
Click, click, click, grrinnd, crrruunnncchh. FUCK!
In any case, even on that level (and as I said on another branch), Microsoft have the longer experience in VMs - anyone who was using Java right at inception (like me) knows what a huge step forward their JVM was over Sun's original...
Dude, you were doing so well up until that point. Then you had to go and blow it by claiming that Microsoft's JVM was an huge leap forward compared to Sun's JVM.
I mean, come on! You could have strung this troll out a lot longer if you'd just been a bit more subtle.
But no, you had to go and shoot your load too early. Apparently a common condition amongst Slashdot trolls, on-line and off.
Next time try thinking of RMS and counting to a hundred.