Nope. As is the case with anything 300 baud, I could read the text as fast as it displayed on the screen. 1200 baud was something that could only exist on a parallel plane of existence for me.
I have a photographic memory of phone numbers as a result of my C-64 and 300 baud modem. The modem was a General Electric model with a coupler. You know, the kind that you actually put the handset into? It also had a phone jack, so I didn't have to listen to the chirping, but I would from time to time. I kind of miss that noise.
Of course, my primary objective for my C-64 was to gather and play games. That meant a 1541 5.25" floppy drive. That was the loudest, slowest piece of computer equipment ever manufactured. If I could manually scribe the bits on the disk with a writing utensil while reading the data from screen, I would beat that 1541.
The quest for games also meant BBS searches, wardialing, etc. Then I discovered MCI codes. Soon I was dialing BBSs in New York, Arkansas, Chicago. All of the country. I started by making printouts, but then I quickly remembered the numbers. Ever since, phone numbers have always stuck in my head. I remember my home phone number from every place I've lived since those days. Twenty years and probably fifteen different residences.
Of course, the FBI paid me a visit. That ended that. But I had a nice collection of games before it was all said and done, and the IBM PC and its clones had become the standard.
Beach Head. Raid Over Moscow. Infiltrator. Fourth & Inches. Microleague Baseball. Karateka. Ultima I, II, III, and IV. One-on-One. Flight Simulator. Just to name a few. I loved that beige box with a keyboard.
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If you work in a firearms store, and someone comes in and asks for a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range, RUN! Don't call the authorities! Don't reason with it! RUN!
Same goes if someone ask you for your clothes, boots, and motorcycle.
Man, pay-per-view (aka on-demand) has absolutely sucked putrid shit the last two months. Insight is my cable provider, and they've offered lousy stuff on the on-demand channels for the last two months. Of course, there's hasn't been but a small handful of movies this year worth witnessing. Then again, the entire television spectrum has been that way for over a decade now. Nevermind.
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Does this mean they're finally getting rid of the semi-transparent logos in the bottom right corner of the screen? Not soon enough if it were up to me...
Cygwin or not, IE will remain installed and running on your box on Microsoft's latest desktop OS, Windows XP. Try and uninstall it. You cannot. Same goes for Outlook. Try and uninstall it. You cannot. You are at the mercy of Windows Update for security updates.
Even if you're running a Cygwin environment on a Windows box, you're at risk for the latest VBScript exploit of the month. Perhaps despite keeping up to date with Windows Update.
The question that begs asking is why you are running Cygwin for all of those applications when you can run them in Linux for free and without leaving them open to exploits by default. Gaming I suppose. Yeah, I dual boot too--with my NIC disabled.
Stability is a bare minimum. It took Microsoft a while to bring Windows up to some semblance of stability, but they have a lot of developers and vendors to bring into line with their product.
I still favor Linux over Windows when it comes to stability, but there are several other facets of the Windows operation system and Microsoft philosophy that turn me (and likely other Slashdotters) off. First, security. I don't like my browser or mail client doing things I'm not explicitly aware of. I cannot use Windows with a clear conscience because of IE's and Outlook's persistent security failures. Add in IIS for Windows incarnations with IIS installed an running. This is compounded by the fact that these pieces of software cannot be uninstalled. I don't really care about the monopoly angle with the bundling of IE/Outlook. Linux distros "bundle" similar items if not more which I like. The difference is that if someone finds a bug in Mozilla that puts me or my network at risk, I can wipe it clean from my hard drive and fall back on alternative software packages.
Cost is another obvious difference, but one that I think will eventually catch up to Microsoft more than any antitrust case or business practice. It's evolution, baby. The personal computer is still a wonderful, versatile thing. I use it to write, program, listen to music, watch movies, capture/edit/burn digital video, and game. But it isn't a new concept on which a business can build on and dominate market share any more. There are a growing number of open source software projects that meet or even exceed their commercial competitors capabilities. OpenOffice, Mozilla, and Apache to name a few. There's three software projects right there that are relevant to the corporate world's preoccupation with information technology.
Commercial software that meets a need or niche that open source solutions cannot fill is going the way of the dinosaurs. They had their chance, but it's not the way I see software evolving. Why depend on a single commercial source for solutions when you can support a core group of developers in producing a piece of software that everyone can benefit from?
I don't so much find Windows to be inferior. It's just that Linux and the canon of open source software built upon it make so much more sense financially, socially, and from an engineering standpoint.
You have a point, but it isn't as profound as another observation I've had reading Slashdot: beginning a post with "Umm," in an attempt to convey superior intellect. Drives me nuts when I see it, which is regularly here. So sorry for the misuse of "obligatory." Yes, I just had to rant about Dusty Baker.
Also, since your telephone isn't treated as part of your home and personal domain,
Then why is it taxed as such?. It isn't really free speech then as I am paying for it, right?
Bottom line, a person has the right to ignore, turn off, or otherwise for himself squelch free speech that he does not want to hear. You can say what you want, but I have the right to not listen. The DNC beautifully expresses my desire to not listen.
Fox's baseball coverage is a mixed bag, but you are right about the ridiculous closeups. Sometimes their announcers hit the nail on the head, but usually they struggle to pipe down and let the audience "watch." They continue to spearhead the scoreboard-dominates-the-screen department. Used to be you had to pay attention to the game. Now, it's all they can do to prevent you from doing so.
2003, the year football became a baseball fan's pastime.
In my college days, I would share UNIX accounts with fellow CS students who I was working on projects with (friends, mind you). One night when finishing up some coding, I decided to leave something behind for a buddy I knew would be looking at my work in the morning...
$ cd cs250/ $ ls Makefile parser.c main.c fuck.you
Naturally, when it was my turn to log in later that day, I would find something equally creative...
I started with Slackware 96 in 1996 and used it until the Redhat hype got to me. Ran Redhat from 6.1 to 8.0. I'm a web application developer which means I build LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl) from source all the time. With each release, Redhat was seriously get in my way of accomplishing this. I was singing the RPM dependency blues (install Perl to install VIM?).
I finally decided to give a source based distribution a go, and I went with Gentoo. As most trolls on/. will make abundantly clear, you'll spend a couple days or hours if you have a weekend and are sedentary to compile your base system. Of course you can start with a stage 3 install and save 8-16 hours of compiling time.
But, brother, once you've got your base system installed, you'll wonder how Redhat became the poster boy distro for Linux. It is nice. You've just got to try it.
The same can probably be said for Debian or Slackware. You simply get a "truer" Linux the closer you stick to source code based distros.
When you've laid eyes on an Apache/AxKit driven site that uses XPathScript and XSLT, then we'll talk. You want completely unmaintainable content? First, you have XML files which somehow are supposed to respresent data. Nevermind that somebody is supposed to make some kind of heads or tails of these things. Second, you have either XPathScript (.xps) or XSLT (.xsl) which is somehow supposed to transform that XML into discernable HTML that a browser can use. In the case of XPathScript, you have an wacked hodgepodge of Perl and HTML. Nothing halfway understandable like an Embperl, Mason, or even Text::Template template or component. No, go look up XPathScript to see what I mean. XSLT stylesheets are no better.
I want to believe in the XML's mission, but when I recently took up a migration of someone else's AxKit driven site, I haven't been able to get much sleep (it's 2:28am on a Friday night and I'm rebuilding a server to accomodate this goofy setup).
Sounds like you are a very talented employee. I did what you did about five years ago for a large tax consulting firm. I couldn't do it anymore (I'm a DBA/sysadmin for a public TV station). It takes a real special brand of human to:
1) swallow his pride 2) nurture his users' tech savvy 3) do virtually anything, anytime
Tech support. Truly the foot soldier of technology. Keep up the good work, hoss. You have as big an impact or more on your company as anybody else can claim.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. As is the case with anything 300 baud, I could read the text as fast as it displayed on the screen. 1200 baud was something that could only exist on a parallel plane of existence for me.
Of course, my primary objective for my C-64 was to gather and play games. That meant a 1541 5.25" floppy drive. That was the loudest, slowest piece of computer equipment ever manufactured. If I could manually scribe the bits on the disk with a writing utensil while reading the data from screen, I would beat that 1541.
The quest for games also meant BBS searches, wardialing, etc. Then I discovered MCI codes. Soon I was dialing BBSs in New York, Arkansas, Chicago. All of the country. I started by making printouts, but then I quickly remembered the numbers. Ever since, phone numbers have always stuck in my head. I remember my home phone number from every place I've lived since those days. Twenty years and probably fifteen different residences.
Of course, the FBI paid me a visit. That ended that. But I had a nice collection of games before it was all said and done, and the IBM PC and its clones had become the standard.
Beach Head. Raid Over Moscow. Infiltrator. Fourth & Inches. Microleague Baseball. Karateka. Ultima I, II, III, and IV. One-on-One. Flight Simulator. Just to name a few. I loved that beige box with a keyboard.
Where do you want it today?
Same goes if someone ask you for your clothes, boots, and motorcycle.
Your're supposed to jit into a rag, not the keyboard when jacking to pr0n.
</PSA>
Blackjack, people. Better odds and more social.
Man, pay-per-view (aka on-demand) has absolutely sucked putrid shit the last two months. Insight is my cable provider, and they've offered lousy stuff on the on-demand channels for the last two months. Of course, there's hasn't been but a small handful of movies this year worth witnessing. Then again, the entire television spectrum has been that way for over a decade now. Nevermind.
Does this mean they're finally getting rid of the semi-transparent logos in the bottom right corner of the screen? Not soon enough if it were up to me...
Even if you're running a Cygwin environment on a Windows box, you're at risk for the latest VBScript exploit of the month. Perhaps despite keeping up to date with Windows Update.
The question that begs asking is why you are running Cygwin for all of those applications when you can run them in Linux for free and without leaving them open to exploits by default. Gaming I suppose. Yeah, I dual boot too--with my NIC disabled.
I still favor Linux over Windows when it comes to stability, but there are several other facets of the Windows operation system and Microsoft philosophy that turn me (and likely other Slashdotters) off. First, security. I don't like my browser or mail client doing things I'm not explicitly aware of. I cannot use Windows with a clear conscience because of IE's and Outlook's persistent security failures. Add in IIS for Windows incarnations with IIS installed an running. This is compounded by the fact that these pieces of software cannot be uninstalled. I don't really care about the monopoly angle with the bundling of IE/Outlook. Linux distros "bundle" similar items if not more which I like. The difference is that if someone finds a bug in Mozilla that puts me or my network at risk, I can wipe it clean from my hard drive and fall back on alternative software packages.
Cost is another obvious difference, but one that I think will eventually catch up to Microsoft more than any antitrust case or business practice. It's evolution, baby. The personal computer is still a wonderful, versatile thing. I use it to write, program, listen to music, watch movies, capture/edit/burn digital video, and game. But it isn't a new concept on which a business can build on and dominate market share any more. There are a growing number of open source software projects that meet or even exceed their commercial competitors capabilities. OpenOffice, Mozilla, and Apache to name a few. There's three software projects right there that are relevant to the corporate world's preoccupation with information technology.
Commercial software that meets a need or niche that open source solutions cannot fill is going the way of the dinosaurs. They had their chance, but it's not the way I see software evolving. Why depend on a single commercial source for solutions when you can support a core group of developers in producing a piece of software that everyone can benefit from?
I don't so much find Windows to be inferior. It's just that Linux and the canon of open source software built upon it make so much more sense financially, socially, and from an engineering standpoint.
Over and out.
Neener neener neener. You must carry out a sad existence to be so embittered. When was the last time you rubbed one off?
And you're content to wipe out config files and leave Apache binaries to rot in /usr/local/bin.
So, er, eat a dick.
You have a point, but it isn't as profound as another observation I've had reading Slashdot: beginning a post with "Umm," in an attempt to convey superior intellect. Drives me nuts when I see it, which is regularly here. So sorry for the misuse of "obligatory." Yes, I just had to rant about Dusty Baker.
Then why is it taxed as such?. It isn't really free speech then as I am paying for it, right?
Bottom line, a person has the right to ignore, turn off, or otherwise for himself squelch free speech that he does not want to hear. You can say what you want, but I have the right to not listen. The DNC beautifully expresses my desire to not listen.
Funny. I've never seen Apache installed under /usr/local/etc/. You must be confused. Can I interest you in one of these?
Fox's baseball coverage is a mixed bag, but you are right about the ridiculous closeups. Sometimes their announcers hit the nail on the head, but usually they struggle to pipe down and let the audience "watch." They continue to spearhead the scoreboard-dominates-the-screen department. Used to be you had to pay attention to the game. Now, it's all they can do to prevent you from doing so.
2003, the year football became a baseball fan's pastime.
Goddamn those wristbands...
In my college days, I would share UNIX accounts with fellow CS students who I was working on projects with (friends, mind you). One night when finishing up some coding, I decided to leave something behind for a buddy I knew would be looking at my work in the morning...
$ cd cs250/
$ ls
Makefile
parser.c
main.c
fuck.you
Naturally, when it was my turn to log in later that day, I would find something equally creative...
$ ls
Makefile
parser.c
main.c
eat.me
Exactly why I do not use HTML mail.
Your Own Printer
I started with Slackware 96 in 1996 and used it until the Redhat hype got to me. Ran Redhat from 6.1 to 8.0. I'm a web application developer which means I build LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl) from source all the time. With each release, Redhat was seriously get in my way of accomplishing this. I was singing the RPM dependency blues (install Perl to install VIM?).
/. will make abundantly clear, you'll spend a couple days or hours if you have a weekend and are sedentary to compile your base system. Of course you can start with a stage 3 install and save 8-16 hours of compiling time.
I finally decided to give a source based distribution a go, and I went with Gentoo. As most trolls on
But, brother, once you've got your base system installed, you'll wonder how Redhat became the poster boy distro for Linux. It is nice. You've just got to try it.
The same can probably be said for Debian or Slackware. You simply get a "truer" Linux the closer you stick to source code based distros.
When you've laid eyes on an Apache/AxKit driven site that uses XPathScript and XSLT, then we'll talk. You want completely unmaintainable content? First, you have XML files which somehow are supposed to respresent data. Nevermind that somebody is supposed to make some kind of heads or tails of these things. Second, you have either XPathScript (.xps) or XSLT (.xsl) which is somehow supposed to transform that XML into discernable HTML that a browser can use. In the case of XPathScript, you have an wacked hodgepodge of Perl and HTML. Nothing halfway understandable like an Embperl, Mason, or even Text::Template template or component. No, go look up XPathScript to see what I mean. XSLT stylesheets are no better.
I want to believe in the XML's mission, but when I recently took up a migration of someone else's AxKit driven site, I haven't been able to get much sleep (it's 2:28am on a Friday night and I'm rebuilding a server to accomodate this goofy setup).
Sounds like you are a very talented employee. I did what you did about five years ago for a large tax consulting firm. I couldn't do it anymore (I'm a DBA/sysadmin for a public TV station). It takes a real special brand of human to:
1) swallow his pride
2) nurture his users' tech savvy
3) do virtually anything, anytime
Tech support. Truly the foot soldier of technology. Keep up the good work, hoss. You have as big an impact or more on your company as anybody else can claim.