Is it just me, or does the "Information Industry" part of the SIAA name sound a little odd? As in, it used to be STUFF people peddled, now it's INFORMATION, which is an entirely different beast.
At least they are FAR more clueful than the RIAA, though.:-) Witness:
-- all of those nasty copy-protection schemes of the '80s, like bad floppy sectors
-- now, you don't get none of that
-- serial numbers (think windblows) keep honest people honest, while not affecting the dishonest
-- the industry mostly realizes that the battle against the user is not worth fighting
-- instead, they go after the biggie counterfeiters
And, I think we all know that the RIAA is currently at the top of the list -- silly protection schemes to try and prevent all users from doing anything the RIAA doesn't want you to. Hopefully, they will progress down the list further in the next ten years.......
Oh well. I don't care too much whether the RIAA lives or dies, as long as they don't buy legislation (in the US of A mostly) that affects me. In other words, I don't care much for their music. Classical rules! -----
Of course, stability is something you want on a server. I know this, I run a number of servers on 2.2. (Even one on 2.0.) But, the more people testing 2.4 on machine that can afford it to be tested on, the more bugfixes sooner, and the sooner it comes out in general. That's all. -----
I think that once the word about 2.4 starts buzzing around, there will be a lot more people who want it... I am running a dual-CPU setup, and I have seen a remarkable difference between 2.2 and 2.4.
Things I like about 2.4:
-- much better SMP support (more deserialized)
-- better disk caching (doesn't waste twice the space it needs, integrates the read and write buffers)
-- USB support, built in
-- same with firewire
-- good AGP/DRI support for XFree4.0.1 (more on this in a minute)
-- integrated UDF && DVD support
-- all of these integrated into one
Specifically, I have two celeron 366, and trying to play back DVD video did not work well with kernel 2.2 and XFree3. It would skip on the audio a lot. Now, with kernel 2.4 and XFree4 and Xvideo extensions and DRI and stuff, it works *so* much better. Same with the OpenGL stuff.
It's humor. Laugh. I don't take linux as some religion, I take it as an operating system which meets my needs. And one that I can play with a lot more than some others, due to its open source nature.
Only time can tell whether open source is a fad, but I'm placing my bets that it will NOT disappear.
Every generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult.
Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts.
Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be
the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious
sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, around the dawn of the
third millenium AD...
The Gospel of Tux (v1.0)
In the beginning Turing created the Machine.
And the Machine was crufty and bogacious, existing in theory
only. And von Neumann looked upon the Machine, and saw that it was crufty.
He divided the Machine into two Abstractions, the Data and the Code, and yet
the two were one Architecture. This is a great Mystery, and the beginning of
wisdom.
And von Neumann spoke unto the Architecture, and blessed it,
saying, "Go forth and replicate, freely exchanging data and code, and bring
forth all manner of devices unto the earth." And it was so, and it was cool.
The Architecture prospered and was implemented in hardware and software. And
it brought forth many Systems unto the earth.
The first Systems were mighty giants; many great works of
renown did they accomplish. Among them were Colossus, the codebreaker; ENIAC,
the targeter; EDSAC and MULTIVAC and all manner of froody creatures ending in
AC, the experimenters; and SAGE, the defender of the sky and father of all
networks. These were the mighty giants of old, the first children of Turing,
and their works are written in the Books of the Ancients. This was the First
Age, the age of Lore.
Now the sons of Marketing looked upon the children of Turing,
and saw that they were swift of mind and terse of name and had many great and
baleful attributes. And they said unto themselves, "Let us go now and make us
Corporations, to bind the Systems to our own use that they may bring us great
fortune." With sweet words did they lure their customers, and with many
chains did they bind the Systems, to fashion them after their own image. And
the sons of Marketing fashioned themselves Suits to wear, the better to lure
their customers, and wrote grave and perilous Licenses, the better to bind
the Systems. And the sons of Marketing thus became known as Suits, despising
and being despised by the true Engineers, the children of von Neumann.
And the Systems and their Corporations replicated and grew
numerous upon the earth. In those days there were IBM and Digital, Burroughs
and Honeywell, Unisys and Rand, and many others. And they each kept to their
own System, hardware and software, and did not interchange, for their
Licences forbade it. This was the Second Age, the age of Mainframes.
Now it came to pass that the spirits of Turing and von Neumann
looked upon the earth and were displeased. The Systems and their Corporations
had grown large and bulky, and Suits ruled over true Engineers. And the
Customers groaned and cried loudly unto heaven, saying, "Oh that there would
be created a System mighty in power, yet small in size, able to reach into
the very home!" And the Engineers groaned and cried likewise, saying, "Oh,
that a deliverer would arise to grant us freedom from these oppressing Suits
and their grave and perilous Licences, and send us a System of our own, that
we may hack therein!" And the spirits of Turing and von Neumann heard the
cries and were moved, and said unto each other, "Let us go down and fabricate
a Breakthrough, that these cries may be stilled."
And that day the spirits of Turing and von Neumann spoke unto
Moore of Intel, granting him insight and wisdom to understand the future. And
Moore was with chip, and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And
Moore did bless the Chip, saying, "Thou art a Breakthrough; with my own
Corporation have I fabricated thee. Thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet
shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain, and conquer all
before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: every eighteen months shall thou
double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moore's Law, which
endures unto this day.
And the birth of 4004 was the beginning of the Third Age, the
age of Microchips. And as the Mainframes and their Systems and Corporations
had flourished, so did the Microchips and their Systems and Corporations. And
their lineage was on this wise:
Moore begat Intel. Intel begat Mostech, Zilog and Atari.
Mostech begat 6502, and Zilog begat Z80. Intel also begat 8800, who begat
Altair; and 8086, mother of all PCs. 6502 begat Commodore, who begat PET and
64; and Apple, who begat 2. (Apple is the great Mystery, the Fruit that was
devoured, yet bloomed again.) Atari begat 800 and 1200, masters of the game,
who were destroyed by Sega and Nintendo. Xerox begat PARC. Commodore and PARC
begat Amiga, creator of fine arts; Apple and PARC begat Lisa, who begat
Macintosh, who begat iMac. Atari and PARC begat ST, the music maker, who died
and was no more. Z80 begat Sinclair the dwarf, TRS-80 and CP/M, who begat
many machines, but soon passed from this world. Altair, Apple and Commodore
together begat Microsoft, the Great Darkness which is called Abomination,
Destroyer of the Earth, the Gates of Hell.
Now it came to pass in the Age of Microchips that IBM, the
greatest of the Mainframe Corporations, looked upon the young Microchip
Systems and was greatly vexed. And in their vexation and wrath they smote the
earth and created the IBM PC. The PC was without sound and colour, crufty and
bogacious in great measure, and its likeness was a tramp, yet the Customers
were greatly moved and did purchase the PC in great numbers. And IBM sought
about for an Operating System Provider, for in their haste they had not
created one, nor had they forged a suitably grave and perilous License,
saying, "First we will build the market, then we will create a new System,
one in our own image, and bound by our Licence." But they reasoned thus out
of pride and not wisdom, not forseeing the wrath which was to come.
And IBM came unto Microsoft, who licensed unto them QDOS, the
child of CP/M and 8086. (8086 was the daughter of Intel, the child of Moore).
And QDOS grew, and was named MS-DOS. And MS-DOS and the PC together waxed
mighty, and conquered all markets, replicating and taking possession thereof,
in accordance with Moore's Law. And Intel grew terrible and devoured all her
children, such that no chip could stand before her. And Microsoft grew proud
and devoured IBM, and this was a great marvel in the land. All these things
are written in the Books of the Deeds of Microsoft.
In the fullness of time MS-DOS begat Windows. And this is the
lineage of Windows: CP/M begat QDOS. QDOS begat DOS 1.0. DOS 1.0 begat DOS
2.0 by way of Unix. DOS 2.0 begat Windows 3.11 by way of PARC and Macintosh.
IBM and Microsoft begat OS/2, who begat Windows NT and Warp, the lost OS of
lore. Windows 3.11 begat Windows 95 after triumphing over Macintosh in a
mighty Battle of Licences. Windows NT begat NT 4.0 by way of Windows 95. NT
4.0 begat NT 5.0, the OS also called Windows 2000, The Millenium Bug,
Doomsday, Armageddon, The End Of All Things.
Now it came to pass that Microsoft had waxed great and mighty
among the Microchip Corporations; mighter than any of the Mainframe
Corporations before it had it waxed. And Gates heart was hardened, and he
swore unto his Customers and their Engineers the words of this curse:
"Children of von Neumann, hear me. IBM and the Mainframe
Corporations bound thy forefathers with grave and perilous Licences, such
that ye cried unto the spirits of Turing and von Neumann for deliverance.
Now I say unto ye: I am greater than any Corporation before me. Will I loosen
your Licences? Nay, I will bind thee with Licences twice as grave and ten
times more perilous than my forefathers. I will engrave my Licence on thy
heart and write my Serial Number upon thy frontal lobes. I will bind thee to
the Windows Platform with cunning artifices and with devious schemes. I will
bind thee to the Intel Chipset with crufty code and with gnarly APIs. I will
capture and enslave thee as no generation has been enslaved before. And
wherefore will ye cry then unto the spirits of Turing, and von Neumann, and
Moore? They cannot hear ye. I am a greater Power than they. Ye shall cry only
unto me, and shall live by my mercy and my wrath. I am the Gates of Hell; I
hold the portal to MSNBC and the keys to the Blue Screen of Death. Be ye
afraid; be ye greatly afraid; serve only me, and live."
And the people were cowed in terror and gave homage to
Microsoft, and endured the many grave and perilous trials which the Windows
platform and its greatly bogacious Licence forced upon them. And once again
did they cry to Turing and von Neumann and Moore for a deliverer, but none
was found equal to the task until the birth of Linux.
These are the generations of Linux:
SAGE begat ARPA, which begat TCP/IP, and Aloha, which begat
Ethernet. Bell begat Multics, which begat C, which begat Unix. Unix and
TCP/IP begat Internet, which begat the World Wide Web. Unix begat RMS, father
of the great GNU, which begat the Libraries and Emacs, chief of the
Utilities. In the days of the Web, Internet and Ethernet begat the Intranet
LAN, which rose to renown among all Corporations and prepared the way for the
Penguin. And Linus and the Web begat the Kernel through Unix. The Kernel, the
Libraries and the Utilities together are the Distribution, the one Penguin in
many forms, forever and ever praised.
Now in those days there was in the land of Helsinki a young
scholar named Linus the Torvald. Linus was a devout man, a disciple of RMS
and mighty in the spirit of Turing, von Neumann and Moore. One day as he was
meditating on the Architecture, Linus fell into a trance and was granted a
vision. And in the vision he saw a great Penguin, serene and well-favoured,
sitting upon an ice floe eating fish. And at the sight of the Penguin Linus
was deeply afraid, and he cried unto the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and
Moore for an interpretation of the dream.
And in the dream the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore
answered and spoke unto him, saying, "Fear not, Linus, most beloved hacker.
You are exceedingly cool and froody. The great Penguin which you see is an
Operating System which you shall create and deploy unto the earth. The
ice-floe is the earth and all the systems thereof, upon which the Penguin
shall rest and rejoice at the completion of its task. And the fish on which
the Penguin feeds are the crufty Licensed codebases which swim beneath all
the earth's systems. The Penguin shall hunt and devour all that is crufty,
gnarly and bogacious; all code which wriggles like spaghetti, or is infested
with blighting creatures, or is bound by grave and perilous Licences shall it
capture. And in capturing shall it replicate, and in replicating shall it
document, and in documentation shall it bring freedom, serenity and most cool
froodiness to the earth and all who code therein."
Linus rose from meditation and created a tiny Operating System
Kernel as the dream had foreshewn him; in the manner of RMS, he released the
Kernel unto the World Wide Web for all to take and behold. And in the fulness
of Internet Time the Kernel grew and replicated, becoming most cool and
exceedingly froody, until at last it was recognised as indeed a great and
mighty Penguin, whose name was Tux. And the followers of Linus took refuge in
the Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities; they installed Distribution
after Distribution, and made sacrifice unto the GNU and the Penguin, and gave
thanks to the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore, for their deliverance
from the hand of Microsoft. And this was the beginning of the Fourth Age, the
age of Open Source.
Now there is much more to be said about the exceeding strange
and wonderful events of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war
upon the Penguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell
among lawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, the
apostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought the
gospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even of the
dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollish Licence. But
all these things are recorded elsewhere, in the Books of the Deeds of the
Penguin and the Chronicles of the Fourth Age, and I suppose if they were all
narrated they would fill a stack of DVDs as deep and perilous as a Usenet
Newsgroup.
Now may you code in the power of the Source; may the Kernel,
the Libraries and the Utilities be with you, throughout all Distributions,
until the end of the Epoch. Amen.
You basically stole the words out of my mouth, though! Here's what I was going to say:
Did you know that 87% of all statistics are meaningless? Furthermore, 47% of them are made up anyways.
Still..... between this and the totally lopsided presidential debates (as in, no mention of anybody else besides the "major party" candidates...), I'm not feeling particularly good about my country. (The US.)
The one thing I can do is have a little fun with it, though. Take for instance this joke:
Anyone descrambling my e-mail address and using it without my permission will be liable for circumvention under the DMCA and will be prosecuted for damages to the full extent of the law.
[read subject] I want to know how it was done, so I can add a copy to my censored archive. I believe their web site was shut down, but I still have the files from there publically available.
I stand on the side of hacking AFTER the standard is finalized. However, in any case I don't like the evil tracking the hacksdmi.org web site does, so I now provide you with a way around it:
This is somewhat weird, as I was just planning to get myself an Abit VP6. I just got a BP6 not three months ago, but the C366s didn't pull 550, and thus it can't decode DVDs properly. So then, I was looking at Athlon SMP (actually, it's not proper to call it SMP, it should be just "multiprocessing"), but that's at least four months down the road, and I need the speed right NOW. However, I'm gonna ditch the VP6 in favor of a dual Athlon (or maybe a single or dual Alpha... yummy!) as soon as those come out.
Is anyone else hooked on SMP like me? Is anyone else on a wacky upgrade cycle like me? I think I'm crazy, but then again, working over the summer has its advantages...
Now, as for what this has to do with the main article... well, the VP6 and such is where Intel really needs to be putting its efforts. Making a cheap line, a normal line, a power line, and a super line, as documented in recent reports, is normally called SPREADING YOURSELF ALL OVER THE PLACE. Some can do this, but it gets tedious and tiresome, as is evident by this article's announcement. Now, while I'd rather see Intel lose even more market share, I can still say that for them to do better, they maybe need to NOT try and segment the market into so many little slices.
Long rant? Yes. But hey, this is slashdot... discussion encouraged!
I believe the OPL came before the GFDL... I sure heard of it first. In fact, I only heard of the GFDL very recently, in the past month or so, while I've known about the OPL for at least a year and a half...
ugh. sorry about that, dude. that's the infamous "slashdot bitchslap"; rumor has it only Taco (or say, another admin) can do that to you.
if you e-mail him, and be persistent, he may help.
I also have another theory, when one post gets so much ******** moderation, it either bitchslaps you, or flags you for Taco to look at for possible bitchslapping.
I think I finally figured it out -- they let people view the hackDownload.asp page only if their IP is recorded as having
1. loaded the hackDownload.asp page
2. with an HTTP-FROM of the hacksClickThrough.asp page
The downloads may or may not work -- it looks like the.asp accesses a database of IPs who have completed (1) and (2), and gives a different page depending. So I think the downloads may work without having clicked through. In any case, my other post has both direct links and a link to my own mirror of the entire site, where
1. they can't track you and
2. you can download w/o clicking through the agreement
Happy hacking, those who want to...
(Just don't turn it in to them, release it at large.)
And, in case those don't work, I will have mirror up soon enough at diddl.firehead.org/censor/hacksdmi.o rg with no license agreements necessary for download.
Slashdot Mirror
Hoooray! Now I can show my kids the fireworks show I've always promised them!
Anybody know where it's gonna be?
On another note: Goodbye Mir, it's been a good time.
(Side note: I don't actually have kids... it's a joke, anyway.)
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Is it just me, or does the "Information Industry" part of the SIAA name sound a little odd? As in, it used to be STUFF people peddled, now it's INFORMATION, which is an entirely different beast.
:-) Witness:
At least they are FAR more clueful than the RIAA, though.
-- all of those nasty copy-protection schemes of the '80s, like bad floppy sectors
-- now, you don't get none of that
-- serial numbers (think windblows) keep honest people honest, while not affecting the dishonest
-- the industry mostly realizes that the battle against the user is not worth fighting
-- instead, they go after the biggie counterfeiters
And, I think we all know that the RIAA is currently at the top of the list -- silly protection schemes to try and prevent all users from doing anything the RIAA doesn't want you to. Hopefully, they will progress down the list further in the next ten years.......
Oh well. I don't care too much whether the RIAA lives or dies, as long as they don't buy legislation (in the US of A mostly) that affects me. In other words, I don't care much for their music. Classical rules!
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Of course, stability is something you want on a server. I know this, I run a number of servers on 2.2. (Even one on 2.0.) But, the more people testing 2.4 on machine that can afford it to be tested on, the more bugfixes sooner, and the sooner it comes out in general. That's all.
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I think that once the word about 2.4 starts buzzing around, there will be a lot more people who want it... I am running a dual-CPU setup, and I have seen a remarkable difference between 2.2 and 2.4.
Things I like about 2.4:
-- much better SMP support (more deserialized)
-- better disk caching (doesn't waste twice the space it needs, integrates the read and write buffers)
-- USB support, built in
-- same with firewire
-- good AGP/DRI support for XFree4.0.1 (more on this in a minute)
-- integrated UDF && DVD support
-- all of these integrated into one
Specifically, I have two celeron 366, and trying to play back DVD video did not work well with kernel 2.2 and XFree3. It would skip on the audio a lot. Now, with kernel 2.4 and XFree4 and Xvideo extensions and DRI and stuff, it works *so* much better. Same with the OpenGL stuff.
To sum it up: 2.4 ROCKS.
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It's humor. Laugh. I don't take linux as some religion, I take it as an operating system which meets my needs. And one that I can play with a lot more than some others, due to its open source nature.
Only time can tell whether open source is a fad, but I'm placing my bets that it will NOT disappear.
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Every generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, around the dawn of the third millenium AD...
The Gospel of Tux (v1.0)
In the beginning Turing created the Machine.
And the Machine was crufty and bogacious, existing in theory only. And von Neumann looked upon the Machine, and saw that it was crufty. He divided the Machine into two Abstractions, the Data and the Code, and yet the two were one Architecture. This is a great Mystery, and the beginning of wisdom.
And von Neumann spoke unto the Architecture, and blessed it, saying, "Go forth and replicate, freely exchanging data and code, and bring forth all manner of devices unto the earth." And it was so, and it was cool. The Architecture prospered and was implemented in hardware and software. And it brought forth many Systems unto the earth.
The first Systems were mighty giants; many great works of renown did they accomplish. Among them were Colossus, the codebreaker; ENIAC, the targeter; EDSAC and MULTIVAC and all manner of froody creatures ending in AC, the experimenters; and SAGE, the defender of the sky and father of all networks. These were the mighty giants of old, the first children of Turing, and their works are written in the Books of the Ancients. This was the First Age, the age of Lore.
Now the sons of Marketing looked upon the children of Turing, and saw that they were swift of mind and terse of name and had many great and baleful attributes. And they said unto themselves, "Let us go now and make us Corporations, to bind the Systems to our own use that they may bring us great fortune." With sweet words did they lure their customers, and with many chains did they bind the Systems, to fashion them after their own image. And the sons of Marketing fashioned themselves Suits to wear, the better to lure their customers, and wrote grave and perilous Licenses, the better to bind the Systems. And the sons of Marketing thus became known as Suits, despising and being despised by the true Engineers, the children of von Neumann.
And the Systems and their Corporations replicated and grew numerous upon the earth. In those days there were IBM and Digital, Burroughs and Honeywell, Unisys and Rand, and many others. And they each kept to their own System, hardware and software, and did not interchange, for their Licences forbade it. This was the Second Age, the age of Mainframes.
Now it came to pass that the spirits of Turing and von Neumann looked upon the earth and were displeased. The Systems and their Corporations had grown large and bulky, and Suits ruled over true Engineers. And the Customers groaned and cried loudly unto heaven, saying, "Oh that there would be created a System mighty in power, yet small in size, able to reach into the very home!" And the Engineers groaned and cried likewise, saying, "Oh, that a deliverer would arise to grant us freedom from these oppressing Suits and their grave and perilous Licences, and send us a System of our own, that we may hack therein!" And the spirits of Turing and von Neumann heard the cries and were moved, and said unto each other, "Let us go down and fabricate a Breakthrough, that these cries may be stilled."
And that day the spirits of Turing and von Neumann spoke unto Moore of Intel, granting him insight and wisdom to understand the future. And Moore was with chip, and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the Chip, saying, "Thou art a Breakthrough; with my own Corporation have I fabricated thee. Thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain, and conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: every eighteen months shall thou double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moore's Law, which endures unto this day.
And the birth of 4004 was the beginning of the Third Age, the age of Microchips. And as the Mainframes and their Systems and Corporations had flourished, so did the Microchips and their Systems and Corporations. And their lineage was on this wise:
Moore begat Intel. Intel begat Mostech, Zilog and Atari. Mostech begat 6502, and Zilog begat Z80. Intel also begat 8800, who begat Altair; and 8086, mother of all PCs. 6502 begat Commodore, who begat PET and 64; and Apple, who begat 2. (Apple is the great Mystery, the Fruit that was devoured, yet bloomed again.) Atari begat 800 and 1200, masters of the game, who were destroyed by Sega and Nintendo. Xerox begat PARC. Commodore and PARC begat Amiga, creator of fine arts; Apple and PARC begat Lisa, who begat Macintosh, who begat iMac. Atari and PARC begat ST, the music maker, who died and was no more. Z80 begat Sinclair the dwarf, TRS-80 and CP/M, who begat many machines, but soon passed from this world. Altair, Apple and Commodore together begat Microsoft, the Great Darkness which is called Abomination, Destroyer of the Earth, the Gates of Hell.
Now it came to pass in the Age of Microchips that IBM, the greatest of the Mainframe Corporations, looked upon the young Microchip Systems and was greatly vexed. And in their vexation and wrath they smote the earth and created the IBM PC. The PC was without sound and colour, crufty and bogacious in great measure, and its likeness was a tramp, yet the Customers were greatly moved and did purchase the PC in great numbers. And IBM sought about for an Operating System Provider, for in their haste they had not created one, nor had they forged a suitably grave and perilous License, saying, "First we will build the market, then we will create a new System, one in our own image, and bound by our Licence." But they reasoned thus out of pride and not wisdom, not forseeing the wrath which was to come.
And IBM came unto Microsoft, who licensed unto them QDOS, the child of CP/M and 8086. (8086 was the daughter of Intel, the child of Moore). And QDOS grew, and was named MS-DOS. And MS-DOS and the PC together waxed mighty, and conquered all markets, replicating and taking possession thereof, in accordance with Moore's Law. And Intel grew terrible and devoured all her children, such that no chip could stand before her. And Microsoft grew proud and devoured IBM, and this was a great marvel in the land. All these things are written in the Books of the Deeds of Microsoft.
In the fullness of time MS-DOS begat Windows. And this is the lineage of Windows: CP/M begat QDOS. QDOS begat DOS 1.0. DOS 1.0 begat DOS 2.0 by way of Unix. DOS 2.0 begat Windows 3.11 by way of PARC and Macintosh. IBM and Microsoft begat OS/2, who begat Windows NT and Warp, the lost OS of lore. Windows 3.11 begat Windows 95 after triumphing over Macintosh in a mighty Battle of Licences. Windows NT begat NT 4.0 by way of Windows 95. NT 4.0 begat NT 5.0, the OS also called Windows 2000, The Millenium Bug, Doomsday, Armageddon, The End Of All Things.
Now it came to pass that Microsoft had waxed great and mighty among the Microchip Corporations; mighter than any of the Mainframe Corporations before it had it waxed. And Gates heart was hardened, and he swore unto his Customers and their Engineers the words of this curse:
"Children of von Neumann, hear me. IBM and the Mainframe Corporations bound thy forefathers with grave and perilous Licences, such that ye cried unto the spirits of Turing and von Neumann for deliverance. Now I say unto ye: I am greater than any Corporation before me. Will I loosen your Licences? Nay, I will bind thee with Licences twice as grave and ten times more perilous than my forefathers. I will engrave my Licence on thy heart and write my Serial Number upon thy frontal lobes. I will bind thee to the Windows Platform with cunning artifices and with devious schemes. I will bind thee to the Intel Chipset with crufty code and with gnarly APIs. I will capture and enslave thee as no generation has been enslaved before. And wherefore will ye cry then unto the spirits of Turing, and von Neumann, and Moore? They cannot hear ye. I am a greater Power than they. Ye shall cry only unto me, and shall live by my mercy and my wrath. I am the Gates of Hell; I hold the portal to MSNBC and the keys to the Blue Screen of Death. Be ye afraid; be ye greatly afraid; serve only me, and live."
And the people were cowed in terror and gave homage to Microsoft, and endured the many grave and perilous trials which the Windows platform and its greatly bogacious Licence forced upon them. And once again did they cry to Turing and von Neumann and Moore for a deliverer, but none was found equal to the task until the birth of Linux.
These are the generations of Linux:
SAGE begat ARPA, which begat TCP/IP, and Aloha, which begat Ethernet. Bell begat Multics, which begat C, which begat Unix. Unix and TCP/IP begat Internet, which begat the World Wide Web. Unix begat RMS, father of the great GNU, which begat the Libraries and Emacs, chief of the Utilities. In the days of the Web, Internet and Ethernet begat the Intranet LAN, which rose to renown among all Corporations and prepared the way for the Penguin. And Linus and the Web begat the Kernel through Unix. The Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities together are the Distribution, the one Penguin in many forms, forever and ever praised.
Now in those days there was in the land of Helsinki a young scholar named Linus the Torvald. Linus was a devout man, a disciple of RMS and mighty in the spirit of Turing, von Neumann and Moore. One day as he was meditating on the Architecture, Linus fell into a trance and was granted a vision. And in the vision he saw a great Penguin, serene and well-favoured, sitting upon an ice floe eating fish. And at the sight of the Penguin Linus was deeply afraid, and he cried unto the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore for an interpretation of the dream.
And in the dream the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore answered and spoke unto him, saying, "Fear not, Linus, most beloved hacker. You are exceedingly cool and froody. The great Penguin which you see is an Operating System which you shall create and deploy unto the earth. The ice-floe is the earth and all the systems thereof, upon which the Penguin shall rest and rejoice at the completion of its task. And the fish on which the Penguin feeds are the crufty Licensed codebases which swim beneath all the earth's systems. The Penguin shall hunt and devour all that is crufty, gnarly and bogacious; all code which wriggles like spaghetti, or is infested with blighting creatures, or is bound by grave and perilous Licences shall it capture. And in capturing shall it replicate, and in replicating shall it document, and in documentation shall it bring freedom, serenity and most cool froodiness to the earth and all who code therein."
Linus rose from meditation and created a tiny Operating System Kernel as the dream had foreshewn him; in the manner of RMS, he released the Kernel unto the World Wide Web for all to take and behold. And in the fulness of Internet Time the Kernel grew and replicated, becoming most cool and exceedingly froody, until at last it was recognised as indeed a great and mighty Penguin, whose name was Tux. And the followers of Linus took refuge in the Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities; they installed Distribution after Distribution, and made sacrifice unto the GNU and the Penguin, and gave thanks to the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore, for their deliverance from the hand of Microsoft. And this was the beginning of the Fourth Age, the age of Open Source.
Now there is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderful events of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon the Penguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell among lawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, the apostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought the gospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even of the dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollish Licence. But all these things are recorded elsewhere, in the Books of the Deeds of the Penguin and the Chronicles of the Fourth Age, and I suppose if they were all narrated they would fill a stack of DVDs as deep and perilous as a Usenet Newsgroup.
Now may you code in the power of the Source; may the Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities be with you, throughout all Distributions, until the end of the Epoch. Amen.
Written by Lennier
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NetBSD runs on almost every platform, so its kernel should be portable.
You blasphemer! The NetBSD kernel runs on ALL platforms, not just most!
This man must be taken out and shot for his heretical views!
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... how refreshing.
You basically stole the words out of my mouth, though! Here's what I was going to say:
Did you know that 87% of all statistics are meaningless? Furthermore, 47% of them are made up anyways.
Still..... between this and the totally lopsided presidential debates (as in, no mention of anybody else besides the "major party" candidates...), I'm not feeling particularly good about my country. (The US.)
The one thing I can do is have a little fun with it, though. Take for instance this joke:
Anyone descrambling my e-mail address and using it without my permission will be liable for circumvention under the DMCA and will be prosecuted for damages to the full extent of the law.
Sick wicked, isn't it?
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... this is the first JonKatz article in a long time that has actually made sense!
(not a troll)
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[read subject] I want to know how it was done, so I can add a copy to my censored archive. I believe their web site was shut down, but I still have the files from there publically available.
click here for files
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ASF Recorder
:-)
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... you can play DivX;) on a linux box. IA32 only, but hey. It's called "Avifile" and "Xtheater". Go check it out, it rocks the house...
Xtheater.sourceforge.net
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... I'll post this once more.
cuecat software, everything imaginable. hardware hacks, too.
And while I'm at it, here's some hacksdmi.org goodness!
But did you say you wanted DeCSS, or the newer DecVOB? Oops, posted another illegal link.
Maybe you could check out ASF Recorder or (fake) SW Ep2 storyboards while you're at it...
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I stand on the side of hacking AFTER the standard is finalized. However, in any case I don't like the evil tracking the hacksdmi.org web site does, so I now provide you with a way around it:
diddl.firehead.org/censor/hacksdm i.o rg
Yes, now YOU TOO can go get the files to be hacked, without giving them your IP address or agreeing to their stupid (and worthless) agreement!
Have a nice day.
mods: read the subject
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Just in case you don't already have a copy of CPHack et al, here it is:
diddl.firehead.org/censor/cyberpat rol 4
Have a nice day.
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This is somewhat weird, as I was just planning to get myself an Abit VP6. I just got a BP6 not three months ago, but the C366s didn't pull 550, and thus it can't decode DVDs properly. So then, I was looking at Athlon SMP (actually, it's not proper to call it SMP, it should be just "multiprocessing"), but that's at least four months down the road, and I need the speed right NOW. However, I'm gonna ditch the VP6 in favor of a dual Athlon (or maybe a single or dual Alpha... yummy!) as soon as those come out.
Is anyone else hooked on SMP like me? Is anyone else on a wacky upgrade cycle like me? I think I'm crazy, but then again, working over the summer has its advantages...
Now, as for what this has to do with the main article... well, the VP6 and such is where Intel really needs to be putting its efforts. Making a cheap line, a normal line, a power line, and a super line, as documented in recent reports, is normally called SPREADING YOURSELF ALL OVER THE PLACE. Some can do this, but it gets tedious and tiresome, as is evident by this article's announcement. Now, while I'd rather see Intel lose even more market share, I can still say that for them to do better, they maybe need to NOT try and segment the market into so many little slices.
Long rant? Yes. But hey, this is slashdot... discussion encouraged!
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Here we are now:
u ttmonkeys.com/letter-1.jpg
u ttmonkeys.com/letter-2.jpg
http://diddl.firehead.org/censor/cuecat/flyingb
http://diddl.firehead.org/censor/cuecat/flyingb
The URLs should explain where they originally came from, and I think that those documents are still there; in any case, check for yourself.
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Signal 11 is funny. I like his humor. Unfortunately, what this story is about... is not funny. As such, I'm hoping a moderater will see this here.
.sig contains the mirrors of lots of things. Click it.
mirror of the hardware site
My
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president bomb nsa terrorist libya iran plane explosive congress usa senator bribe cash cocaine drug money assassinate kill destroy
.sig isn't working properly, why don't I post my IP address for now.
Hmmmmm.... and since the link in my
Wait... I just realized, you can track me down to the very room using this information! Uh-oh...
*hears tapping at the door*
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! OHHH NO!!! THE NSA IS DRAGIN ME FROM THE KEYB
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I believe the OPL came before the GFDL... I sure heard of it first. In fact, I only heard of the GFDL very recently, in the past month or so, while I've known about the OPL for at least a year and a half...
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ugh. sorry about that, dude. that's the infamous "slashdot bitchslap"; rumor has it only Taco (or say, another admin) can do that to you.
if you e-mail him, and be persistent, he may help.
I also have another theory, when one post gets so much ******** moderation, it either bitchslaps you, or flags you for Taco to look at for possible bitchslapping.
just so ya know.
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I think I finally figured it out -- they let people view the hackDownload.asp page only if their IP is recorded as having
.asp accesses a database of IPs who have completed (1) and (2), and gives a different page depending. So I think the downloads may work without having clicked through. In any case, my other post has both direct links and a link to my own mirror of the entire site, where
1. loaded the hackDownload.asp page
2. with an HTTP-FROM of the hacksClickThrough.asp page
The downloads may or may not work -- it looks like the
1. they can't track you and
2. you can download w/o clicking through the agreement
Happy hacking, those who want to...
(Just don't turn it in to them, release it at large.)
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A flaw has been pointed out be a fellow poster; thank you.
I don't see any cookie required to view the page... so maybe I'll link directly to the downloads:
download a
download b
download c
download d
download e
download f
And, in case those don't work, I will have mirror up soon enough at diddl.firehead.org/censor/hacksdmi.o rg with no license agreements necessary for download.
Have a nice day.
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If you don't want to read the click-through license agreement, just use this URL:
http://hacksdmi.org/hackDownload.asp
I'm not sure if the agreement prevents me from telling others how to circumvent it, but I don't really care that much.
Have a nice day.
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... does anyone else smell shades of 1984 here?
"Your Honor, here is a copy of a news article from May 2001 proving that the MPAA willfully and illegally spanked a room full of children."
"But how can we be certain that you did not fabricate or alter that article? Where is the original?"
"Well, your Honor, as is the custom nowadays, all news is removed from a site just 7 days after it is posted...."
"I'm sorry, but I cannot allow that in as evidence."
D'oh!
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