When./ moves to 2.0, I wonder if we're finally going to see a redesign of the site.
Other sites that run slash like Plastic and Slashcode have a much nicer and slicker interface. I especially like how plastic says how long ago each article was posted. Also things like having your karma displayed on the front page is nice too.
I know no one is going to read this because htere are already 200 posts, but this is just stupid and slimy.
How many companies out there still use DOS based computers, or still have a pentium 90 with 16mb of RAM? How many still use old copies of netware? Tons and Tons and Tons. Why? Because why should they pay for new software when the old software (and hardware - requiring a new OS every 3 years, essentially means that users will have to buy new hardware too) still serves their purposes perfectly. Now M$ will tell them that it/doesn't/ work for them, and that they need to buy (BUY! NOT RENT!) new software.
This isn't the first time that something like this has happened. Apple's powerbook 5300 caught on fire in the exact same manner.
At one point you could trade in the 5300 for about half off on a brand new pismo (firewire g3), but I don't think they have the same deal on the snazzy Titaniums.
On another note, I had a Compaq Armada die on one of my users the otherday. Airborn express picked it up on a wednesday night and I had it back from them on Friday morning, in great shape! A one day turn around! that was aweomse.
This is aweful. It treats all net users as if were a bunch of thugs who are out to get pr0n, pictures of little girlies, and while we're at it, run DOS attacks on servers just for fun.
Maybe they should concentrate more on forcing companies who provide servers and services to make sure things are secure. How about forcing MS to put out security patches for NT/2000/IIS as soon as they find out there is a problem. Then making sure that these patches are readily available. How about making sure companies like verisign don't hand out certificates to anyone claiming to be MS.
I mean, really, we don't live in singapore. We don't need to be flogged everytime something bad happens. It should be the governments role to make sure companies make secure products, not to turn the internet into a police state.
Yeah, the hoe of destruction was awesome! I think you had to go find a key from inside a dead fish near a lake to open a shed to get the Hoe.
But it was a badass weapon!
Also the spaceship from Wing Commander in a farmers yard was cool too.
Ultima was just plain fun. U7 had pictures of all of the team members hidden in the game as well.
The email RFC says to stick to plain text for all messages
That's all well and good, but let's face it: Most people want colored email. They want to be able to change the font size of their emails, and have bold and underline and italic. All things you can not do with plain text.
You can quote RFC's till the cows come home, but people still want red text.
What we really need is a program that will let you turn off javascript for emails while leaving it on for browsers
I saw at the VMware booth at linux world expo yesterday a demonstration of a product called VMware GSX, which is not out yet, but is going to be their "enterprise level" product. Rather than running a virtual OS on top of a real OS, it runs multiple VM's straight on the hardware level.
If the NSA thing is using this it would cut out a whole layer of security that they have to deal with.
The joke about Perl Monks getting great donations is that they had a pile of nickels and dimes on the table in their booth with a sign marked donations.
But they did have cool stickers for your car or computer.
The issue doesn't get people fired up for a few simple reasons.
It's simply more important to get more books and new copies of books into kids hands than it is to get them new computers. It's also much cheaper to buy a book (or a dozen books or even a hundred books!) than it is to buy one computer!
It's also more important to spend the money on qualified teachers. Getting more teachers with more experience and better qualifications at the head of classrooms with smaller class sizes than it is to put net access infront of kids faces.
It's more important to spend that money on field trips. Do you think kids want to look at web pages about dinosaurs or they want to go to the American Museum of Natural History and see the fossils for themselves!
And honestly, if you sit and 8th grade boy infront of a computer, do you think he's a) going to sit there and look at what the teacher wants him to look at or b) he's going to spend his time trying to find ways to get to the WWF website when the teacher's not looking.
I agree with you. I was surprised when really useful TLDs weren't passed, like xxx and sex. Seriously. There are so many of those types of sites that they truly do deserve their own TLD.
Not that I dislike.museum, but it seems like it's not going to be as widely used as some of the others.
What I can never figure out is why no one uses a.us domain. Aren't they free? Maybe no one knows where to register them!
And not only are they pandering to corporate money, but they're dragging their feet about it too. There's been talk about new TLDs for years, but where has it gotten us?
The process for starting new TLDs should be an open one where everyone gets a vote. I suppose they tried to do that with the ICANN-at-large deal, but it doesnt seem to be working.
I was reading a few weeks ago that most people agree banner ads are mostly useless at this point. 90% (or higher!) simply ignore them.
The future for advertising on the internet is to make it more like television and radio where the program (or in this case the web page) is interuppted by an ad. Example: You are reading an article at nytimes.com, after about 5 minutes or so the web page redirects you to another page which is entirely an ad. You're forced to watch it (some flash animation perhaps) for 10 - 15 seconds then it brings you back to the article.
Most people won't stand for this you say? Well, what if we're not given a choice. Companies will simply adopt this form (or something similar) of advertising without giving us a choice. There was a time before banner ads when most people thought that any ad on a web site was silly.
What kind of battery life does your Crusoe laptop get vs. a moble duron?
I think for laptops battery life is much more important than speed. But then again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe People would prefer to get 3 hours of quake rather than 6 hours of word and excel on an airplane.
I remember taking a tour of the FBI headquarters in DC when I was a kid. They had a picture on the wall of two guys. One of whom had been mistakenly arrested for a crime the other (it turned out) had commited. They arrested him, because his fingerprints matched the ones at the crime scene. Turned out that the two men had identical fingerprints (or near enough).
The nice people at the FBI made it sound like this was a 1 in a billion chance (which, technically, would make it so there are 6 other people out there with the same finger prints as me!), and that it was a freak thing. I'm inclined to agree with that.
I can't figure out why the above was modded down. It's a good point, the calendaring features of Outlook/Exchange are really nice to have. And beign able to have a calendar for resources, a conferrence room or a project, are really good features that you don't get with Sendmail. You can get them with Lotus Notes or with Netscape Calendar, though.
The main reseaon is that if you standardize on Outlook you're stuck running outlook. Users on Mac's (designers, for example), and Linux/Sun/SGI (developers, for example) are out of luck.
The other reason is cost. Why bother spending the money on exchange (with it's horrible liscensing fees) when you already have a perfectly good setup.
Of course this is not going to get read, since there are already 400 comments, but what the hell!
I think the biggest reason to vote electronically, not over the internet, but atleast not with dead trees, is that everyone will get a say. Homeless people, for example, can't vote because the have no place to have their voter registration card sent to. If all ovtes were based on fingerprints, for example, then everyone would get a vote.
Course, I also think we shoudl do away with the electoral college system as well.
Problems? Yeah, spam. The pr0n companies would be on top of this in a second, overloading the database with tons and tons of pr0n links. Maybe 1 out of a hundred would be good links. MAYBE.
Can WINE run Photoshop and Imageready? Those are what's really keeping me in Windows these days. Sorry, but I think they are far superior to gimp (except for the price tag... ouch).
(I'm not a coder) But... Why can't someone port Xlib over to macos X? It's got all of the unix goodies, like gcc and emacs built in. How hard would it be?
I had somehting similar happen to me. I had signed up for something (I can't remember what) from Yankees.com, and from then on out I would get periodic updates from them. It was fine for a while, I just deleted them. But then I wanted to get off.
I tried following the instructions at the bottom of the emails; it didn't work. I tried replying to the emails, asking politely to be taken off. I tried CC'ing those replies to various emails @yankees.com (root, abuse, spam, www, etc). They all bounced. I tried sending rather rude and vulgar. Still nothing.
I went to Yankees.com and looked for some sort of contact info. NOTHING!
Finally, I noticed something at the bottom of the site saying "Powered by ultrastar", so I went to their website, ultrastar.com, found their phone number and called them up. I got the reception desk, and asked to speak with whomever was in charge of yankees.com. I got a very nice lady on the phone, and explained my situation to her. I gave her my email address, and have never gotten another email from yankees.com again.
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When ./ moves to 2.0, I wonder if we're finally going to see a redesign of the site.
Other sites that run slash like Plastic and Slashcode have a much nicer and slicker interface. I especially like how plastic says how long ago each article was posted. Also things like having your karma displayed on the front page is nice too.
-Cire
I know no one is going to read this because htere are already 200 posts, but this is just stupid and slimy.
/doesn't/ work for them, and that they need to buy (BUY! NOT RENT!) new software.
How many companies out there still use DOS based computers, or still have a pentium 90 with 16mb of RAM? How many still use old copies of netware? Tons and Tons and Tons. Why? Because why should they pay for new software when the old software (and hardware - requiring a new OS every 3 years, essentially means that users will have to buy new hardware too) still serves their purposes perfectly. Now M$ will tell them that it
-Cire
This isn't the first time that something like this has happened. Apple's powerbook 5300 caught on fire in the exact same manner.
At one point you could trade in the 5300 for about half off on a brand new pismo (firewire g3), but I don't think they have the same deal on the snazzy Titaniums.
On another note, I had a Compaq Armada die on one of my users the otherday. Airborn express picked it up on a wednesday night and I had it back from them on Friday morning, in great shape! A one day turn around! that was aweomse.
-C
This is aweful. It treats all net users as if were a bunch of thugs who are out to get pr0n, pictures of little girlies, and while we're at it, run DOS attacks on servers just for fun.
Maybe they should concentrate more on forcing companies who provide servers and services to make sure things are secure. How about forcing MS to put out security patches for NT/2000/IIS as soon as they find out there is a problem. Then making sure that these patches are readily available. How about making sure companies like verisign don't hand out certificates to anyone claiming to be MS.
I mean, really, we don't live in singapore. We don't need to be flogged everytime something bad happens. It should be the governments role to make sure companies make secure products, not to turn the internet into a police state.
Yeah, the hoe of destruction was awesome! I think you had to go find a key from inside a dead fish near a lake to open a shed to get the Hoe.
But it was a badass weapon!
Also the spaceship from Wing Commander in a farmers yard was cool too.
Ultima was just plain fun. U7 had pictures of all of the team members hidden in the game as well.
It's sarcasm. Usually sarcasm is missed by the moderators, or modded down as flamebait, it's nice to see something sarcastic get modded up.
That's all well and good, but let's face it: Most people want colored email. They want to be able to change the font size of their emails, and have bold and underline and italic. All things you can not do with plain text.
You can quote RFC's till the cows come home, but people still want red text.
What we really need is a program that will let you turn off javascript for emails while leaving it on for browsers
I saw at the VMware booth at linux world expo yesterday a demonstration of a product called VMware GSX, which is not out yet, but is going to be their "enterprise level" product. Rather than running a virtual OS on top of a real OS, it runs multiple VM's straight on the hardware level.
If the NSA thing is using this it would cut out a whole layer of security that they have to deal with.
The joke about Perl Monks getting great donations is that they had a pile of nickels and dimes on the table in their booth with a sign marked donations.
But they did have cool stickers for your car or computer.
Jon,
The issue doesn't get people fired up for a few simple reasons.
It's simply more important to get more books and new copies of books into kids hands than it is to get them new computers. It's also much cheaper to buy a book (or a dozen books or even a hundred books!) than it is to buy one computer!
It's also more important to spend the money on qualified teachers. Getting more teachers with more experience and better qualifications at the head of classrooms with smaller class sizes than it is to put net access infront of kids faces.
It's more important to spend that money on field trips. Do you think kids want to look at web pages about dinosaurs or they want to go to the American Museum of Natural History and see the fossils for themselves!
And honestly, if you sit and 8th grade boy infront of a computer, do you think he's a) going to sit there and look at what the teacher wants him to look at or b) he's going to spend his time trying to find ways to get to the WWF website when the teacher's not looking.
Cire
I agree with you. I was surprised when really useful TLDs weren't passed, like xxx and sex. Seriously. There are so many of those types of sites that they truly do deserve their own TLD.
.museum, but it seems like it's not going to be as widely used as some of the others.
.us domain. Aren't they free? Maybe no one knows where to register them!
Not that I dislike
What I can never figure out is why no one uses a
And not only are they pandering to corporate money, but they're dragging their feet about it too. There's been talk about new TLDs for years, but where has it gotten us?
The process for starting new TLDs should be an open one where everyone gets a vote. I suppose they tried to do that with the ICANN-at-large deal, but it doesnt seem to be working.
I was reading a few weeks ago that most people agree banner ads are mostly useless at this point. 90% (or higher!) simply ignore them.
The future for advertising on the internet is to make it more like television and radio where the program (or in this case the web page) is interuppted by an ad. Example: You are reading an article at nytimes.com, after about 5 minutes or so the web page redirects you to another page which is entirely an ad. You're forced to watch it (some flash animation perhaps) for 10 - 15 seconds then it brings you back to the article.
Most people won't stand for this you say? Well, what if we're not given a choice. Companies will simply adopt this form (or something similar) of advertising without giving us a choice. There was a time before banner ads when most people thought that any ad on a web site was silly.
What kind of battery life does your Crusoe laptop get vs. a moble duron?
I think for laptops battery life is much more important than speed. But then again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe People would prefer to get 3 hours of quake rather than 6 hours of word and excel on an airplane.
And it won't be the first time that a movie has been delayed, either.
The back to the future sequels (which I'm still waiting for on DVD) came out 5 years after the original.
I remember taking a tour of the FBI headquarters in DC when I was a kid. They had a picture on the wall of two guys. One of whom had been mistakenly arrested for a crime the other (it turned out) had commited. They arrested him, because his fingerprints matched the ones at the crime scene. Turned out that the two men had identical fingerprints (or near enough).
The nice people at the FBI made it sound like this was a 1 in a billion chance (which, technically, would make it so there are 6 other people out there with the same finger prints as me!), and that it was a freak thing. I'm inclined to agree with that.
I can't figure out why the above was modded down. It's a good point, the calendaring features of Outlook/Exchange are really nice to have. And beign able to have a calendar for resources, a conferrence room or a project, are really good features that you don't get with Sendmail. You can get them with Lotus Notes or with Netscape Calendar, though.
The main reseaon is that if you standardize on Outlook you're stuck running outlook. Users on Mac's (designers, for example), and Linux/Sun/SGI (developers, for example) are out of luck.
The other reason is cost. Why bother spending the money on exchange (with it's horrible liscensing fees) when you already have a perfectly good setup.
Not to mention the fact that MS is evil.
I think this the first time a phone number has been slashdotted.
Of course this is not going to get read, since there are already 400 comments, but what the hell!
I think the biggest reason to vote electronically, not over the internet, but atleast not with dead trees, is that everyone will get a say. Homeless people, for example, can't vote because the have no place to have their voter registration card sent to. If all ovtes were based on fingerprints, for example, then everyone would get a vote.
Course, I also think we shoudl do away with the electoral college system as well.
Problems? Yeah, spam. The pr0n companies would be on top of this in a second, overloading the database with tons and tons of pr0n links. Maybe 1 out of a hundred would be good links. MAYBE.
Cire
Well, my job pays for it..... :)
Can WINE run Photoshop and Imageready? Those are what's really keeping me in Windows these days. Sorry, but I think they are far superior to gimp (except for the price tag... ouch).
Cire
(I'm not a coder) But... Why can't someone port Xlib over to macos X? It's got all of the unix goodies, like gcc and emacs built in. How hard would it be?
Eric
I had somehting similar happen to me. I had signed up for something (I can't remember what) from Yankees.com, and from then on out I would get periodic updates from them. It was fine for a while, I just deleted them. But then I wanted to get off.
I tried following the instructions at the bottom of the emails; it didn't work. I tried replying to the emails, asking politely to be taken off. I tried CC'ing those replies to various emails @yankees.com (root, abuse, spam, www, etc). They all bounced. I tried sending rather rude and vulgar. Still nothing.
I went to Yankees.com and looked for some sort of contact info. NOTHING!
Finally, I noticed something at the bottom of the site saying "Powered by ultrastar", so I went to their website, ultrastar.com, found their phone number and called them up. I got the reception desk, and asked to speak with whomever was in charge of yankees.com. I got a very nice lady on the phone, and explained my situation to her. I gave her my email address, and have never gotten another email from yankees.com again.
Cire