I'de like to take a moment and thank/., it's readers/poster and Jon Hall for taking the time out to post such a wonderful interview. It's inspiring to hear from a leader in the comunity.
A quote from the article: maddog: Linux is the only operating system in major usage today that started outside the United States. While it is true that a lot of operating systems were worked on multi-nationally, Linux started outside the US. This flavors the way that other countries look at it.
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 01, @01:25AM from the happy-new-year dept. While most of the rest of the world was passed out frompartying away 1997, some diligent hackers broke in toQuake2.com the popular Quake web site and replaced the homepage with first a pornographic image, and then this image sent to us by Alan Bailward. _________________________
i was expecting windows to do something strange, but apart from crashing as usual, it seems normal.
That's an interesting observation. How is one supose to tell, exactly, if the one-a-day-BSOD is y2k related or not?
For what it's worth, I got a phone call from my uncle who left a message on my machine at a little past midnight last night, telling me that his windows box 'has that blue screen again' and asked if he should wait till the next day to reboot.
I've saved a few pages with date glitches and thought I would post them here for all interested. This has got to be one of the most overhyped non-stories in a long time. With false american pride I ask . ..Who do I sue?;)
Here we go:
From the Auckland International Airport Limited we have this little date jem: Y2K Update Dated 02:58 1 Jan 100 Auckland Airport Confirms Business as Usual
From the bury-your-head-in-the-sand-till-it-goes-away dept., we have this one from audiusa.com Sorry, we have temporarily disabled this module. "While Audiusa.com is fully prepared for Y2K and beyond, we wanted to keep our databases clear of the millennium madness everyone seems to be talking about.
From www.tvtoday.de/tv we have this little assending date snafu jem: Samstag, 01.01.100
Then from the people at pleaseread.com we have another assending date from hell: Saturday, January 01, 19100 Award-winning text-to-speech software applications utilizing the best technologies in the world. (Editors note: Best technology? they can't count to 99;)
And from the make-it-stop-make-it-stop dept. we find AllAdvantage.com thinks the best way to comply is to not partisipate: Happy Y2K from AllAdvantage.com! As a precautionary measure, we've disconnected our servers from the Internet and are watching the millennial date change from the sidelines.
Most of these small errors (19100) are caused by one small piece (printf("19%d", tm->tm_year);) of sloppy code (as previously posted on/.). While these little didbits make for a good laugh, I'm happy to see that non of them add up to the 'show stopper' everyone has been hyping. Happy New Year! _________________________
The URL(I) linking to this story is using a very interesting date. I wonder if this will effect how the stories are archived at a latter date? Will a story search in Feb turn up a tons of stories on New years eve, and nothing in Jan and Feb? Just curious. _________________________
OS/2 was #1, with BSD as #2, Linux #3 Then BSD was #1, with Linux as #4 Then Windows was on op, BSD #2 and Linux as dead last. For someone who believes it doesn't matter, you seem to pay a lot of attention. _________________________
Assuming, of course that the retirment home survives "Boris Yelsins' finger-on-the-button drunken new year".
I can picture it now, Jan1 2000 headline picture of Boris Baby wearing a goofy new years hat holding a 1/2 empty 5th of Jack in one hand, and a picture of Natilie Portman in the other while he sits on the nuclear launch button.
"I'm Peter Jenings, more news later, after we take this comercial break, giving Diane a chance to pour hot grits down my pants."
[bumper] ....more americans get their grits from ABC than from any other grits source . . " _________________________
News Progress Report from the Y2K project Subject: Y2K "Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget. We have gone through every line of code in every program in every system. We have analyzed all databases, all data files, including backups and historic archives, and modified all data to reflect the change.
We are proud to report that we have completed the "Y2K" date change mission, and have now implemented all changes to all programs and all data to reflect your new standards: Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September, October, November, December As well as: Sundak, Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, Saturdak
I trust that this is satisfactory, because to be honest, none of this "Y to K" problem has made any sense to me. But I understand it is a global problem, and our team is glad to help in any way possible. And what does the year 2000 have to do with it?
Speaking of which, what do you think we ought to do next year when the two digit year rolls over from 99 to 00? We'll await your direction _________________________
*NEWSFLASH UPDATE* There are nerds in Russia. Most of them are on the net! *I'm Peter Jenings, Diane Sawyer poured hot grits down my pants! Stay tuned for more updates; every hour, on the hour* _________________________
Yes the drunk guy with a briefcase full-o-bombs has dashed the one ray of hope we have for a real Y2K nightmare. Like most Americans, on this new years, old Boris baby is going to sit home with a 5th of Jack.
I guess we really did win the cold war, eh? _________________________
This language amazes me: Are you sitting down? Way down at the end of this document they have the following language:
PRAYER FOR RELIEF [SNIP] restraining Defendants, their officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from making any further use or otherwise disclosing or distributing, on their web sites or elsewhere, or "linking" to other web sites which disclose, distribute, or "link" to any proprietary property or trade secrets relating to the CSS technology and specifically enjoining Defendants, its officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from copying, duplicating, licensing, selling, distributing, publishing, leasing, renting or otherwise marketing the DeCSS computer program and all other products containing, using, and/or substantially derived from CSS proprietary property or trade secrets;[SNIP]
A server list on usenet? This doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell. _________________________
This language amazes me: Are you sitting down? Way doen at the end of this document they have the following language: PRAYER FOR RELIEF [SNIP] restraining Defendants, their officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from making any further use or otherwise disclosing or distributing, on their web sites or elsewhere, or "linking" to other web sites which disclose, distribute, or "link" to any proprietary property or trade secrets relating to the CSS technology and specifically enjoining Defendants, its officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from copying, duplicating, licensing, selling, distributing, publishing, leasing, renting or otherwise marketing the DeCSS computer program and all other products containing, using, and/or substantially derived from CSS proprietary property or trade secrets;[SNIP]
This doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell! _________________________
Slashdot Mirror
Bill gates changed the landscape of his bank account on the backs of IT people everywhere.
He's a small man with petty ideals.
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While looking around for other information on Maddog, I stumbled across this interview @ IBM : developerWorks : Linux overview : Library - papers Of Jon-da-Maddog Hall done back in October of last year.
A quote from the article:
maddog: Linux is the only operating system in major usage today that started outside the United States. While it is true that a lot of operating systems were worked on multi-nationally, Linux started outside the US. This flavors the way that other countries look at it.
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This page starts with the following story.
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 01, @01:25AM
from the happy-new-year dept.
While most of the rest of the world was passed out frompartying away 1997, some diligent hackers broke in toQuake2.com the popular Quake web site and replaced the homepage with first a pornographic image, and then this image sent to us by Alan Bailward.
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Judge Jackson would disagree with you.
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That's gotta be a typo?
I don't think many Linux users are dumb enough to put 170 Gig of storage in a 386/25 box.
Could it be a: 386/25 laptop with 4 MB of RAM and a 170 MB hard drive ??.
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That's an interesting observation.
How is one supose to tell, exactly, if the one-a-day-BSOD is y2k related or not?
For what it's worth, I got a phone call from my uncle who left a message on my machine at a little past midnight last night, telling me that his windows box 'has that blue screen again' and asked if he should wait till the next day to reboot.
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The entire unit (jpg 51k)
With daughter board removed (jpg 59k)
With daughter board flipped over (jpg 61k)
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With false american pride I ask . .
Here we go:
From the Auckland International Airport Limited we have this little date jem:
Y2K Update
Dated 02:58 1 Jan 100
Auckland Airport Confirms Business as Usual
From the bury-your-head-in-the-sand-till-it-goes-away dept., we have this one from audiusa.com
Sorry, we have temporarily disabled this module. "While Audiusa.com is fully prepared for Y2K and beyond, we wanted to keep our databases clear of the millennium madness everyone seems to be talking about.
From www.tvtoday.de/tv we have this little assending date snafu jem:
Samstag, 01.01.100
Then from the people at pleaseread.com we have another assending date from hell: ;)
Saturday, January 01, 19100
Award-winning text-to-speech software applications utilizing
the best technologies in the world.
(Editors note: Best technology? they can't count to 99
And from the make-it-stop-make-it-stop dept.
we find AllAdvantage.com thinks the best way to comply is to not partisipate:
Happy Y2K from AllAdvantage.com!
As a precautionary measure, we've disconnected our servers from the Internet and are watching the millennial date change from the sidelines.
Most of these small errors (19100) are caused by one small piece (printf("19%d", tm->tm_year);) of sloppy code (as previously posted on /.). While these little didbits make for a good laugh, I'm happy to see that non of them add up to the 'show stopper' everyone has been hyping. Happy New Year!
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from the take-it-with-a-big-grain-of-salt dept.
There ya go.
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The URL(I) linking to this story is using a very interesting date.
I wonder if this will effect how the stories are archived at a latter date?
Will a story search in Feb turn up a tons of stories on New years eve, and nothing in Jan and Feb?
Just curious.
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OS/2 was #1, with BSD as #2, Linux #3
Then BSD was #1, with Linux as #4
Then Windows was on op, BSD #2 and Linux as dead last.
For someone who believes it doesn't matter, you seem to pay a lot of attention.
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The hot grits factory is ok too.
wheeeeew
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First response to first post of new . . .
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http://readplease.com/
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Assuming, of course that the retirment home survives "Boris Yelsins' finger-on-the-button drunken new year".
I can picture it now, Jan1 2000 headline picture of Boris Baby wearing a goofy new years hat holding a 1/2 empty 5th of Jack in one hand, and a picture of Natilie Portman in the other while he sits on the nuclear launch button.
"I'm Peter Jenings, more news later, after we take this comercial break, giving Diane a chance to pour hot grits down my pants."
[bumper]
.. ..more americans get their grits from ABC than from any other grits source . . "
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Subject: Y2K
"Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget. We have gone through every line of code in every program in every system. We have analyzed all databases, all data files, including backups and historic archives, and modified all data to reflect the change.
We are proud to report that we have completed the "Y2K" date change mission, and have now implemented all changes to all programs and all data to reflect your new standards: Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September, October, November, December As well as: Sundak, Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, Saturdak
I trust that this is satisfactory, because to be honest, none of this "Y to K" problem has made any sense to me. But I understand it is a global problem, and our team is glad to help in any way possible. And what does the year 2000 have to do with it?
Speaking of which, what do you think we ought to do next year when the two digit year rolls over from 99 to 00? We'll await your direction
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Starting this year in 99, I'll be using 4 digit years in all my coding in 00 and beyond.
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*NEWSFLASH UPDATE* There are nerds in Russia. Most of them are on the net! *I'm Peter Jenings, Diane Sawyer poured hot grits down my pants! Stay tuned for more updates; every hour, on the hour*
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I guess we really did win the cold war, eh?
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"Imagine a financial center with no walls..."
Bahhhahaha! ..it really is kinda funny when the opening page is a wall!
blah blah blah yea yea yea blah yea blah
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Moderate this up !
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Are you sitting down?
Way down at the end of this document they have the following language:
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
[SNIP] restraining Defendants, their officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from making any further use or otherwise disclosing or distributing, on their web sites or elsewhere, or "linking" to other web sites which disclose, distribute, or "link" to any proprietary property or trade secrets relating to the CSS technology and specifically enjoining Defendants, its officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from copying, duplicating, licensing, selling, distributing, publishing, leasing, renting or otherwise marketing the DeCSS computer program and all other products containing, using, and/or substantially derived from CSS proprietary property or trade secrets;[SNIP]
A server list on usenet?
This doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell.
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Are you sitting down?
Way doen at the end of this document they have the following language:
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
[SNIP] restraining Defendants, their officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from making any further use or otherwise disclosing or distributing, on their web sites or elsewhere, or "linking" to other web sites which disclose, distribute, or "link" to any proprietary property or trade secrets relating to the CSS technology and specifically enjoining Defendants, its officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert, combination or participation with any of them either directly or indirectly, singly or together, from copying, duplicating, licensing, selling, distributing, publishing, leasing, renting or otherwise marketing the DeCSS computer program and all other products containing, using, and/or substantially derived from CSS proprietary property or trade secrets;[SNIP]
This doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell!
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. . I laughed so hard at that comment, I spit milk on my monitor! lol
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