The URL is the same (http://slashdot.org/). Rob simply added a mime redirect to httpd.conf that redirects text/vnd.wap.wml requests to/slashdot.wml. WML has some issues with HTML tags so the WML is basically a stripped-down lowercase HTML version of index page. Viewing comments via WAP is going to take some work becuase viewing 100K of text on a cell phone LCD screen is obviously not feasible so it will most likely be view-one-comment-at-a-time type of scenerio.
I totally agree. Being John Malkovich got a few nominations (including director Spike Jones) but Fight Club was only nominated for Sound Editing.
Fight Club is a great movie full of memorable moments and great quotes "I am Jack's..." The writing was brilliant. Unfortunately I think it got panned because a lot of people are annoyed by Brad Pitt or assumed the whole movie is about gory bare-knuckle-boxing. Also the writer has been panned by critics as being a hack since this is his first novel.
Compared to all other films this year, Phantom Menace was a over-budgeted debacle. Lucas should've restricted himself to a $5 million budget and then maybe the film would've been interesting -- it would've forced him to to rely more on the story than the effects.
Last year I think Saving Private Ryan should've won hands-down, but instead it was Shakespeare In Love. Bah!
Basically the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences is like a club, and the Oscars is the process by which the existing members (previous Oscar winners) welcome new members into their club. Votes are not always cast for best in each category but rather with consideration of who's in and who's out.
Point a RealPlayer at /etc geek TV archives and check out Episode 5: Fun with High Voltage Electrical Discharges, demonstrates how to produce ball lightening in your microwave with a flaming toothpick.
By coincidence I helped a friend setup a proxy on his Windows box this weekend and he bought two of the SMC $15 cards you mentioned. True to form, plug-and-play detection did not properly detect the chipset and there were no printed instructions in the box or anywhere on the box about what to do next. I imagine Joe User would be stuck here. I suspected the "SMC TurboLinux" CD that fell out of the box may have some win drivers on it and sure enough if you dig under a few subdirectories you'll find the Windows oemsetup.inf file, the windows drivers, and if you look at the card itself you see the chipset is SMC1211A and the DOS diagnostic util for that chipset is under that subdirectory on that CD as well, which is also not printed anywhere on the box. See all you had to do was use your DirectTelepathy feature in Windows to have this information sent to you via ESP and then you'd know how to install the drivers for these dapaters. So after seven reboots, waving a dead chicken, threatening the machine with physical harm, and tearfully apologizing to Redmond for working at pro-Linux company I was then able to install and configure the card in Windows and it only took little over an hour. Gee, I really hope Linux can someday be as easy to use as Windows *cough* bullshit *cough*
I agree the/. headline here is misleading, however the article does say that 2 of the 11 felony charges were possesion of burglarly tools, being the l0phtcrack, and maybe Windows.
As far as the overesitimate of monetary damages, companies have an incentive to overestimate damages for insurance reasons. There was a great series of articles in 2600 a year or two ago (summer '97 issue if I recall) called "A Guide to Getting Busted" that explains how/why a company will grossly overestimate monetary damages due to being cracked and how that translates directly into figuring how much jail time an unlucky skr1pt k1ddy will serve.
So the bottom line is this guy cracked a former employer and he got caught and now they're throwing the book at him as is the case when any cracker gets caught. Don't be surprised if they charge him with the Kennedy assination and the ebay DoS attack just for good measure.
I grew up in the Boston area and I'm just not used to seeing a "Religion" section in the local papers -- religion is certainly a fine institution but seeing a section of Christain sermons printed in the local newspaper is a bit fo culture shock to me. I know a lot of people in my area who would throw a fit if the Boston Globe printed daily sermons. I grew up in Newburyport, Mass: same population as Holland, lots of churches, plenty of Republicans, but no daily sermons printed in the local paper. Just an indication of some places being more conservative than others, that's all.
To have a proposal like this shot down in a town where the local newspaper has a "Religion" section, during a contested Republican presidential race, what are the odds? I think Jamie deserves due for credit for showing the people some common sense like just how flawed the logic in Internet filters are. It bothers me that all the press coverage is not mentioning the various flaws in Internet filters, but instead most press stories are making it sound as if Holland voted in favor of pr0n for everybody because the ACLU told them pr0n is protected by the first amendment -- that's not what this issue is about, it's simply that Internet filters don't work as intended as Jamie demonstrated. I'm suprised there were still 45% percent of voters who didn't get that through into their thick skulls.
First let me say I applaud the LPD and all the work that has gone into it -- I've used it many times myself and always intended on contributing docs to it but it's on my list of things to do like exercise more often and get a life.
Second, I have a humble suggestion: the front page of the site should be written with the newbie Linux user in mind. Think in terms of a brand new Linux users who is trying to figure out how to format a floopy disk, transfer files from his Windows drive, or read files from a CDROM. As soon as Joe Newbie hits the front page he should know where to go next. Unfortunately the current page design the most useful links are crammed up in the top left corner of the page, and the prime realestate is being used for the News column on the front page, which is basically the webmasters journal, although interesting, should not be the fropnt page of the site -- save that for the What's New page.
So I would humbly suggest the front page be a Yahoo-like category index of the various kinds of documentation on the site -- put the table of contents on the front page in plain view.
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It wasn't mentioned above, but the $2000 award given to vim by Slashdot/Andover/VA has gone straight to helping a childrens charity in Uganda.
I'm glad to hear it and you made some excellent points. The realty is a lot open source programmers are not dirt poor, in fact many have high-paying jobs, and many are paid to develop open source projects which already have plenty of big money sponsors backing them already. Some OSS developers need the money and some don't, and I'm glad to see those who don't redistributing it to anyone who really needs it. Some whiners may shout that's wasting capital, but businesses give to charity all the time, sometimes because it's a tax write-off and other times just out of genuine spirit of philanthropy.
Free speech, not free beer!
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From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html:
``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ``free speech'', not ``free beer.'' ``Free software'' refers to the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
FSF says over and over that yes, it's OK to sell software and make money, but it's not cool encouraging people to use your software then slapping hand cuffs on them when they try to disassemble it or customize it for their own needs.
I guess the Free Software Foundation should've been named the Software Liberty Foundation or something like that to avoid confusion over the term "free".
Doh! OK so I'm an idiot!
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From the front page of http://www.gnu.org/
The Free Software Foundation has been awarded $10,000 as the Most Deserving Open Source Charity in the Andover.net/Slashdot Beanie awards. GNOME was awarded $30,000 as the Most Improved Open Source Project.
Boy, is my face red! Maybe I should some homework before I rant? Nah. That would be very unSlashdotlike of me!
OK, fine. Well in that case, let's give 'em more! Give 'til it hurts!
Lawyers, air travel, and bandwidth cost money
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I agree that open source development will definately surive without corporate sponsorship but money can help the whole cause if applied correctly such as providing air travel and hotel so open source developers can attend conferences, providing hardware and bandwidth, and providing attorneys to defend open source licenses or defend against ridiculous patent lawsuits. All of the so-called Linux companies have a vested interest in making sure open source developers are getting all the support they need to keep coding.
A lot of anti-FSF attitude going around
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To my great dissappointment I've asked various people here and people at other Linux companies about sharing a nice slice of IPO money with Free Software Foundation, not like we can't afford to write them a nice big check -- in fact I nagged our executives to do so the day we went public. On one hand we (Andover) assumed FSF would get a Beanie (they did not, if I recall) but we at least run lots of free banners for them on Freshmeat, but what bothers me is so many people working in the open source/ linux business do not want to deal with the Free Software Foundation in any way, shape, or form all because of a certain individual who annoys them by the initials of RMS. I've been told again and again by various people that they do not want to give money to FSF simply because they hate Richard Stallman. I've also had people tell me that RMS will refuse corporate money. I don't agree at all. So what if RMS is an extremist, I don't care. I'm going to keep bitching and bitching and stirring and pot here until someone here mails a fat check to Free Software Foundation -- I consider Andover and certain other Linux companies to owe a huge debt to FSF, and I want to see at least Andover's share of that debt is paid off, and I don't give damn if you like Stallman or not. Thankfully the executives here are very open minded and want to help, so I'm sure we'll do more for FSF soon.
We had to move the DB to another machine for a moment then move it back. I'm afraid those comments were apprently posted while we were copying the DB back -- we caught most of them but it appears these few slipped in while the copy was happening. Thanks for reposting them. I would moderate you up but since I'm posting here I can't.
Mr. Metcalfe's article is blatantly flamebait, therefore he is a troll! (jury gasps) Here is the evidence:
Guilty of making unreasonable suggestions: Metcalfe says...how about bundling Crusoe chips with Transmeta shares? This the trademark of a real troll: trying to stir up the sentiment that any businesses remotely related to Open Source must give away their capital to the public or they are being dishonest to Open Source. Guilty!
Guilty of making unreasonable assumptions about a person's role at the company they work for:...if Torvalds "get's it" then why isn't Crusoe open source Another troll trademark: assuming every employee at company X sets the policy for every aspect of the company X's business. Guilty!
A bold-face confession that this article was engineered to stir up resentment from Slashdot:...why is the sanctimonious open-source press still cheering him on? Are the likes of Slashdot.org, just gobbled up by VA Linux, also porking out in Orwell's farmhouse? This, I submit to you ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is a plain confession that this article was meant to stir up the masses of Slashdot readership and cause unhappiness in these here web pages! The true goal of every professional troll! TROLL, I SAY!
Guilty of trying to insite a Slashdot riot: Metcalfe blatantly asks, Where is the outrage? Oh there is outrage, that you sir are a troll!
Guilty of dragging Microsoft into the conversation:...Crusoe is touted for running X86 Intel software, in particular Microsoft Windows. Doesn't the open-source community say Windows is beneath contempt? Yet again, the true trademark of a troll: when all else fails, mention Microsoft.
So you see ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit to you that Bob Metcalfe is a troll! He has engineered this article to flame Slashdot! What is his next article going to be about? Natalie Portman pouring hot grits down his pants?! I say to you, ignore him!! Let him feel your defeaning silence and disinterest! Please, as with all trolls, DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.
Thank you ladies and gentelmen of the jury for your time. The prosecution rests.
This is completely off-topic but the trolls are out of control today. I just changed my comment prefs to +1 threshold and it's like the IQ level here has suddenly been raised 10-fold. I highly recommend it to anyone tired of the spam trolls. Somethimes they're amusing but overall the trolling quality here is just getting pathetic. Someone needs to write a Troll HOWTO for the LDP.
My desktop machine has been replaced with an HP Omnibook 4150 with 128 MB RAM. The sound is like rattling BBs in a Coke can, but the Linux compatibility overall is very good, the keyboard is big, the screen is sharp TLT, USB, PS/2, monitor out, 2 PCMCIAs, audio in/out, 3 1/2 hour battery life, the fingerpad is smooth, and sleep mode is very stable -- I can slap the top closed whenever I want, take it for a ride, pop it back open and it wakes up right where I left off.
I'm bored of Quake, so I don't care to run Quake on my laptop. As long as Apache, MySQL, GNOME, Netscape, sendmail, modem and WaveLAN are working I'm happy.
I was really unhappy with the VAIOs due the Winmodem nonsense and inconsistent chipsets. Really annoying.
OK, it has been obvious for years that TCP/IP is vulnerable to DoS attacks of all kinds. My question is who do you think has the best chance of fixing the DoS issues, hardware people such as Cisco (router makers) or ethernet chipset makers, or software people like kernel and network driver developers, or is it more of an issue of everyone will just have to work togther to take TCP/IP to the next level?...or is it just an issue of network admins need to learn how to apply existing technologies effectively to keep the skript kiddies under control?
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1. s/Linux/Linus/ (force of habit)
2. He didn't upload the port -- he announced he was working on it.
Perhaps you can enlighten me if there's something else.
Yes, I ranted quite a bit and I and I didn't attach it to any single comment but just blasted the entire forum and that wasn't cool. Sorry.
What has happened is I've been reading Slashdot for the past few years (not I'm not trying to brag -- just offering my perspective) and more and people seem to be whining about how biased the content is since Andover bought the site and I just don't see it. I'm was sitting at our booth at LinuxWorld watching people ask Rob the same questions he has already answered in the FAQ (ie. why don't you make the submission queue public?), and I just don't have the zen patience Rob does. I'm sorry and you're right.
Overall I believe in straight talk and and if I'm out of line then please mark me down and I'll get the hint.
Am I unprofessional? Yeah probably. I'm only a programmer here so relax. In case you can't tell I have no influence over this web site. I'm a flamer goofing off at work like you. So mark me down. Tell me to get back to work? What are you doing that's do important?
I'm done flaming for today. Back to work. Keep watching the skies. I'll take the +1 bonus off this comment to make at least a few whiners a little more happy.
The "go read something else" comment is not just my feelings but just about everyone at Slashdot who has to deal with flame mail telling them that they sold and Slashdot is controlled by big business and yadda yadda yadda. Now obviously it is counter productive for us to piss off our audience and make them leave, so we aim to please but from this side of the fence I can't help but speak up when I see people ranting about the Andover mothership sending signals to Slashdot's brain implants telling them what stories to post. It's not the way it works, and if things do start to go in that direction due to business pressures then you won't be seeing my rants posted anymore because I will stop reading this web site, and delete the bookmark and I will let management know that they have ruined a good thing. From here within the mothership I don't see that day coming anytime soon. If you think that day is already upon us well whatever, it's really not up to us, it's up to the Slashdot authors to make this site interesting, that is what they are paid to do.
Dude, or chick, whatever you are, if you'd bother actually loggin and using your login you too would soon become a Karma whore. Notice my account ID is 935. I created my user account and have been posting with it long before Andover even acquired Slashdot. I just recently chnaged my screen name to show that I work for Andover in the spirit of full disclosure.
And just to irk you I'm going to Karma whore this comment too. Try logging in sometime you'll like it. Don't worry we won't tell anyone that you're behind the microsoft.com firewall and using IE5 to browse here.
Just because you don't know the names of the people working here doesn't mean we aren't serving a function. We pay the bills and provide staff and desingers, programmers, sales people etc. OK so Linux.DaveCentral or MediaBuilder is not your favorite web site and we're sorry but Slashdot and Freshmeat now have several more authors, sys admins, and servers. Who do you think pays for that? Before we bought Slashdot Hemos was selling the ads to make revenue to pay their bills, but he did not want to do that for the rest of his life. Someone has to pay the bills. We have sales people everywhere.
In short we provide the infrastructure to keep these sites running and grow.
For all you obsessed about alien conspiracies and big business skewing the content of Slashdot all I can say is you haven't been paying attention or you just got here and can not resist the urge to flame. What Slashdot basically is boils down to Rob Malda's personally web site. Rob and his hand-picked team of authors pick the stories that interest them -- maybe they don't interest you but these stories interest them. If these stories have no interest to you then please go read something else. No one is putting a gun to your and making you read this web site.
In short, the reason Slashdot has "changed" is because the authors interests are changing. The world is changing. Times are changing. Holland Michigan was aqcuired by Microsoft/AOL/TimeWarner/VAndover/Viacom... whatever you want to believe.
Is Slashdot slower? Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. We're always working on that. We're Slashdot junkies like you and we are just as many hops away from our servers as you and we are just as unhappy when Slashdot does not load fast so we're always working on making it faster. Maybe if some bozos would stop running bots to post psychotic fantasies about a certain actress the site would perform even better, but we strive to work around that.
In short if you don't trust that Rob and his gang really are controlling this site then you haven't been paying attention. I case you haven't noticed there have many things posted here that upper mamagement would rather see posted but what can they do about it? Not much. If the Slashdot authors think it is newsworthy and/or just plain amusing, then it gets posted despite managments uneasiness about it.
I'm sorry to rant but I can't help but let people know that the mothership here is not determining what gets put on Slashdot other which ads to run. Most of our VPs don't even read Slashdot. I realize most of you out there understand this already but for the few who don't I post my little rant.
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The URL is the same (http://slashdot.org/). Rob simply added a mime redirect to httpd.conf that redirects text/vnd.wap.wml requests to /slashdot.wml. WML has some issues with HTML tags so the WML is basically a stripped-down lowercase HTML version of index page. Viewing comments via WAP is going to take some work becuase viewing 100K of text on a cell phone LCD screen is obviously not feasible so it will most likely be view-one-comment-at-a-time type of scenerio.
Fight Club is a great movie full of memorable moments and great quotes "I am Jack's ..." The writing was brilliant. Unfortunately I think it got panned because a lot of people are annoyed by Brad Pitt or assumed the whole movie is about gory bare-knuckle-boxing. Also the writer has been panned by critics as being a hack since this is his first novel.
Compared to all other films this year, Phantom Menace was a over-budgeted debacle. Lucas should've restricted himself to a $5 million budget and then maybe the film would've been interesting -- it would've forced him to to rely more on the story than the effects.
Last year I think Saving Private Ryan should've won hands-down, but instead it was Shakespeare In Love. Bah!
Basically the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences is like a club, and the Oscars is the process by which the existing members (previous Oscar winners) welcome new members into their club. Votes are not always cast for best in each category but rather with consideration of who's in and who's out.
Point a RealPlayer at /etc geek TV archives and check out Episode 5: Fun with High Voltage Electrical Discharges, demonstrates how to produce ball lightening in your microwave with a flaming toothpick.
By coincidence I helped a friend setup a proxy on his Windows box this weekend and he bought two of the SMC $15 cards you mentioned. True to form, plug-and-play detection did not properly detect the chipset and there were no printed instructions in the box or anywhere on the box about what to do next. I imagine Joe User would be stuck here. I suspected the "SMC TurboLinux" CD that fell out of the box may have some win drivers on it and sure enough if you dig under a few subdirectories you'll find the Windows oemsetup.inf file, the windows drivers, and if you look at the card itself you see the chipset is SMC1211A and the DOS diagnostic util for that chipset is under that subdirectory on that CD as well, which is also not printed anywhere on the box. See all you had to do was use your DirectTelepathy feature in Windows to have this information sent to you via ESP and then you'd know how to install the drivers for these dapaters. So after seven reboots, waving a dead chicken, threatening the machine with physical harm, and tearfully apologizing to Redmond for working at pro-Linux company I was then able to install and configure the card in Windows and it only took little over an hour. Gee, I really hope Linux can someday be as easy to use as Windows *cough* bullshit *cough*
As far as the overesitimate of monetary damages, companies have an incentive to overestimate damages for insurance reasons. There was a great series of articles in 2600 a year or two ago (summer '97 issue if I recall) called "A Guide to Getting Busted" that explains how/why a company will grossly overestimate monetary damages due to being cracked and how that translates directly into figuring how much jail time an unlucky skr1pt k1ddy will serve.
So the bottom line is this guy cracked a former employer and he got caught and now they're throwing the book at him as is the case when any cracker gets caught. Don't be surprised if they charge him with the Kennedy assination and the ebay DoS attack just for good measure.
I grew up in the Boston area and I'm just not used to seeing a "Religion" section in the local papers -- religion is certainly a fine institution but seeing a section of Christain sermons printed in the local newspaper is a bit fo culture shock to me. I know a lot of people in my area who would throw a fit if the Boston Globe printed daily sermons. I grew up in Newburyport, Mass: same population as Holland, lots of churches, plenty of Republicans, but no daily sermons printed in the local paper. Just an indication of some places being more conservative than others, that's all.
To have a proposal like this shot down in a town where the local newspaper has a "Religion" section, during a contested Republican presidential race, what are the odds? I think Jamie deserves due for credit for showing the people some common sense like just how flawed the logic in Internet filters are. It bothers me that all the press coverage is not mentioning the various flaws in Internet filters, but instead most press stories are making it sound as if Holland voted in favor of pr0n for everybody because the ACLU told them pr0n is protected by the first amendment -- that's not what this issue is about, it's simply that Internet filters don't work as intended as Jamie demonstrated. I'm suprised there were still 45% percent of voters who didn't get that through into their thick skulls.
Second, I have a humble suggestion: the front page of the site should be written with the newbie Linux user in mind. Think in terms of a brand new Linux users who is trying to figure out how to format a floopy disk, transfer files from his Windows drive, or read files from a CDROM. As soon as Joe Newbie hits the front page he should know where to go next. Unfortunately the current page design the most useful links are crammed up in the top left corner of the page, and the prime realestate is being used for the News column on the front page, which is basically the webmasters journal, although interesting, should not be the fropnt page of the site -- save that for the What's New page.
So I would humbly suggest the front page be a Yahoo-like category index of the various kinds of documentation on the site -- put the table of contents on the front page in plain view.
I'm glad to hear it and you made some excellent points. The realty is a lot open source programmers are not dirt poor, in fact many have high-paying jobs, and many are paid to develop open source projects which already have plenty of big money sponsors backing them already. Some OSS developers need the money and some don't, and I'm glad to see those who don't redistributing it to anyone who really needs it. Some whiners may shout that's wasting capital, but businesses give to charity all the time, sometimes because it's a tax write-off and other times just out of genuine spirit of philanthropy.
``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ``free speech'', not ``free beer.'' ``Free software'' refers to the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
FSF says over and over that yes, it's OK to sell software and make money, but it's not cool encouraging people to use your software then slapping hand cuffs on them when they try to disassemble it or customize it for their own needs.
I guess the Free Software Foundation should've been named the Software Liberty Foundation or something like that to avoid confusion over the term "free".
From the front page of http://www.gnu.org/
The Free Software Foundation has been awarded $10,000 as the Most Deserving Open Source Charity in the Andover.net/Slashdot Beanie awards. GNOME was awarded $30,000 as the Most Improved Open Source Project.
Boy, is my face red! Maybe I should some homework before I rant? Nah. That would be very unSlashdotlike of me!
OK, fine. Well in that case, let's give 'em more! Give 'til it hurts!
I agree that open source development will definately surive without corporate sponsorship but money can help the whole cause if applied correctly such as providing air travel and hotel so open source developers can attend conferences, providing hardware and bandwidth, and providing attorneys to defend open source licenses or defend against ridiculous patent lawsuits. All of the so-called Linux companies have a vested interest in making sure open source developers are getting all the support they need to keep coding.
To my great dissappointment I've asked various people here and people at other Linux companies about sharing a nice slice of IPO money with Free Software Foundation, not like we can't afford to write them a nice big check -- in fact I nagged our executives to do so the day we went public. On one hand we (Andover) assumed FSF would get a Beanie (they did not, if I recall) but we at least run lots of free banners for them on Freshmeat, but what bothers me is so many people working in the open source/ linux business do not want to deal with the Free Software Foundation in any way, shape, or form all because of a certain individual who annoys them by the initials of RMS. I've been told again and again by various people that they do not want to give money to FSF simply because they hate Richard Stallman. I've also had people tell me that RMS will refuse corporate money. I don't agree at all. So what if RMS is an extremist, I don't care. I'm going to keep bitching and bitching and stirring and pot here until someone here mails a fat check to Free Software Foundation -- I consider Andover and certain other Linux companies to owe a huge debt to FSF, and I want to see at least Andover's share of that debt is paid off, and I don't give damn if you like Stallman or not. Thankfully the executives here are very open minded and want to help, so I'm sure we'll do more for FSF soon.
We had to move the DB to another machine for a moment then move it back. I'm afraid those comments were apprently posted while we were copying the DB back -- we caught most of them but it appears these few slipped in while the copy was happening. Thanks for reposting them. I would moderate you up but since I'm posting here I can't.
- Guilty of making unreasonable suggestions: Metcalfe says...how about bundling Crusoe chips with Transmeta shares? This the trademark of a real troll: trying to stir up the sentiment that any businesses remotely related to Open Source must give away their capital to the public or they are being dishonest to Open Source. Guilty!
- Guilty of making unreasonable assumptions about a person's role at the company they work for:
...if Torvalds "get's it" then why isn't Crusoe open source Another troll trademark: assuming every employee at company X sets the policy for every aspect of the company X's business. Guilty! - A bold-face confession that this article was engineered to stir up resentment from Slashdot:
...why is the sanctimonious open-source press still cheering him on? Are the likes of Slashdot.org, just gobbled up by VA Linux, also porking out in Orwell's farmhouse? This, I submit to you ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is a plain confession that this article was meant to stir up the masses of Slashdot readership and cause unhappiness in these here web pages! The true goal of every professional troll! TROLL, I SAY! - Guilty of trying to insite a Slashdot riot: Metcalfe blatantly asks, Where is the outrage? Oh there is outrage, that you sir are a troll!
- Guilty of dragging Microsoft into the conversation:
...Crusoe is touted for running X86 Intel software, in particular Microsoft Windows. Doesn't the open-source community say Windows is beneath contempt? Yet again, the true trademark of a troll: when all else fails, mention Microsoft.
So you see ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit to you that Bob Metcalfe is a troll! He has engineered this article to flame Slashdot! What is his next article going to be about? Natalie Portman pouring hot grits down his pants?! I say to you, ignore him!! Let him feel your defeaning silence and disinterest! Please, as with all trolls, DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.Thank you ladies and gentelmen of the jury for your time. The prosecution rests.
This is completely off-topic but the trolls are out of control today. I just changed my comment prefs to +1 threshold and it's like the IQ level here has suddenly been raised 10-fold. I highly recommend it to anyone tired of the spam trolls. Somethimes they're amusing but overall the trolling quality here is just getting pathetic. Someone needs to write a Troll HOWTO for the LDP.
I'm bored of Quake, so I don't care to run Quake on my laptop. As long as Apache, MySQL, GNOME, Netscape, sendmail, modem and WaveLAN are working I'm happy.
I was really unhappy with the VAIOs due the Winmodem nonsense and inconsistent chipsets. Really annoying.
OK, it has been obvious for years that TCP/IP is vulnerable to DoS attacks of all kinds. My question is who do you think has the best chance of fixing the DoS issues, hardware people such as Cisco (router makers) or ethernet chipset makers, or software people like kernel and network driver developers, or is it more of an issue of everyone will just have to work togther to take TCP/IP to the next level? ...or is it just an issue of network admins need to learn how to apply existing technologies effectively to keep the skript kiddies under control?
1. s/Linux/Linus/ (force of habit)
2. He didn't upload the port -- he announced he was working on it.
Perhaps you can enlighten me if there's something else.
What has happened is I've been reading Slashdot for the past few years (not I'm not trying to brag -- just offering my perspective) and more and people seem to be whining about how biased the content is since Andover bought the site and I just don't see it. I'm was sitting at our booth at LinuxWorld watching people ask Rob the same questions he has already answered in the FAQ (ie. why don't you make the submission queue public?), and I just don't have the zen patience Rob does. I'm sorry and you're right.
Overall I believe in straight talk and and if I'm out of line then please mark me down and I'll get the hint.
- No anonymous posting. Period.
- All Windows clients would be blocked.
- Flames would not only be scored down but deleted.
Am I unprofessional? Yeah probably. I'm only a programmer here so relax. In case you can't tell I have no influence over this web site. I'm a flamer goofing off at work like you. So mark me down. Tell me to get back to work? What are you doing that's do important?I'm done flaming for today. Back to work. Keep watching the skies. I'll take the +1 bonus off this comment to make at least a few whiners a little more happy.
The "go read something else" comment is not just my feelings but just about everyone at Slashdot who has to deal with flame mail telling them that they sold and Slashdot is controlled by big business and yadda yadda yadda. Now obviously it is counter productive for us to piss off our audience and make them leave, so we aim to please but from this side of the fence I can't help but speak up when I see people ranting about the Andover mothership sending signals to Slashdot's brain implants telling them what stories to post. It's not the way it works, and if things do start to go in that direction due to business pressures then you won't be seeing my rants posted anymore because I will stop reading this web site, and delete the bookmark and I will let management know that they have ruined a good thing. From here within the mothership I don't see that day coming anytime soon. If you think that day is already upon us well whatever, it's really not up to us, it's up to the Slashdot authors to make this site interesting, that is what they are paid to do.
And just to irk you I'm going to Karma whore this comment too. Try logging in sometime you'll like it. Don't worry we won't tell anyone that you're behind the microsoft.com firewall and using IE5 to browse here.
In short we provide the infrastructure to keep these sites running and grow.
In short, the reason Slashdot has "changed" is because the authors interests are changing. The world is changing. Times are changing. Holland Michigan was aqcuired by Microsoft/AOL/TimeWarner/VAndover/Viacom... whatever you want to believe.
Is Slashdot slower? Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. We're always working on that. We're Slashdot junkies like you and we are just as many hops away from our servers as you and we are just as unhappy when Slashdot does not load fast so we're always working on making it faster. Maybe if some bozos would stop running bots to post psychotic fantasies about a certain actress the site would perform even better, but we strive to work around that.
In short if you don't trust that Rob and his gang really are controlling this site then you haven't been paying attention. I case you haven't noticed there have many things posted here that upper mamagement would rather see posted but what can they do about it? Not much. If the Slashdot authors think it is newsworthy and/or just plain amusing, then it gets posted despite managments uneasiness about it.
I'm sorry to rant but I can't help but let people know that the mothership here is not determining what gets put on Slashdot other which ads to run. Most of our VPs don't even read Slashdot. I realize most of you out there understand this already but for the few who don't I post my little rant.