Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph

Tonight's slashback with news of how you can help rebuild the foundations of the Internet (at least a small corner), more on slimming down the old Cathode Ray Tube, a new compiler which costs a bit more than GCC, and more.

Why not put 'em on Freenet while you're at it ... Imran Ghory writes: "Google has put out an appeal to get NetNews CDs (produced by Sterling Software and CD Publishing Corporation) which archived usenet between 1992 to 1995. Looks like Google is reviving Deja's idea of a total usenet archive."

This sounds like a worthy objective, worth rooting around for -- maybe they'll even give you a credit somewhere.

They know that of which they speak. Hot on the heels of the inexorable GCC project's 3.0.1 release, zealot (and a number of other people) wrote with the news that "Intel will release its latest compilers (the ones that optimize for P4 and can do some auto-vectorization of code) for Linux this Thursday. I'd love to see some performance numbers for compiled code on a P4 if anyone gets their hands on this ... maybe the autovectorization could help some gimp plugins speed up."

You cannot stop the chess updates Álvaro Begué writes: "Junior is the new World Micro Computer Chess Champion, Shredder won in the single processor category (five years in a row) and Goliath won the blitz tournament. Congratulations to all of them. Check out the official website."

Maybe the durned things will stick around forever. In addition to the IBM research on making ultra-slim CRT monitors, an Anonymous Coward points to another article on the future of CRTs: "This is a new technology that can integrate into existing production lines and can halve the depth of a CRT type tube. A TV normally 22 inches deep would be only 11 inches."

Usenet archives

[Chairboy]

Crikey! Usenet archives going back even FURTHER? Great, now people will be able to trace me back to my great Usenet roots....

"My name is Dave Rhodes. In September 1988 my car was reposessed and the bill collectors were hounding me like you wouldn't believe"....

Re:Hooray for CRT!

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously. My current CRT takes up way too much room on my desk. I'm looking forward to having larger screens using less deskspace.

LCDs are nice, but you miss out on the flood of radiation pouring out the front.

Did they forget the memory?

[CptnKirk]

The topic is Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph. Yet there isn't any mention about memory. Maybe they forgot. :)

A brief Amiga flashback

[Anonymous Coward]

Amiga

1. Hold Left-Shift, Left-Alt, Right-Shift and right-alt
2. Press any of the F keys and get a message!
3. To get a message toward Commodore, do this
4. Hold down the same as step 1 and hold down an f key
5. Insert a disk and you get the message "We made the amiga..."
6. Take the disk out and you get "And Commodore F**ked it up!'

That's one Hell of a S/H charge...

[elh102]

In this CNET article [cnet.com] about the release of Intel's Linux compilers, they quoted the purchase price as $399 for a download, $499 for a CD. Somebody should tell them that blank CDs are a lot cheaper than they used to be...

(I know, I know. The boxed version probably also comes with some printed documentation, supposedly justifying the higher price. It still seemed funny to me..)

Re:Hooray for CRT!

[VenTatsu]

I know what you mean. Years of computer work have altered by biological structure to the point that if I'm away from a CRT for more than an hour or two I begin to feel weak.

USENET ARCHIVES: NOOOOOO

[big.ears]

NOOOOOOO! As a young, stupid college freshman in 1992, I discovered usenet and made a fool out of myself several times. I have been resting peacefully at night for the last decade, thinking that my past was safely hidden from the present, believing that nobody would be able to hold me responsible for the misdeeds of my youth. I guess I'm going to have to change my name now.

-1, blasphemous

[Anonymous Coward]

No blasphemy is allowed here. If you take the good Lord's name in vain again I *will* call the FBI and you will be imprisoned for life.

Re:USENET ARCHIVES: NOOOOOO

[jdavidb]

Cheer up, man. My first posting was entitled "n".

Re:USENET ARCHIVES: NOOOOOO

[Alejo]

Thank God most of my BBS posts are dead. ;)

Yes, you can remove your posts

[Mr_Person]

All of the people complaining about Google posting their Usenet posts that they'd rather not have made public need to go here [google.com] and look and number 16.

Google will honor requests to remove messages that you have posted yourself. In Usenet parlance, this is known as nuking a post. If you would like to remove one or more posts from our archive, please send an email to [e-mail] (And follow their other directions)

Intel compiler

[Laplace]

I've spent the last two days downloading, installing, and trying to compile with the Intel C++ compiler for Linux. The compiler is installed now, but I can't compile with it. My first program had one line that printed out "Hello, world."

The compiler crashed and burned. Their techical support site (which you get to by clicking on a creepy NDA) didn't contain much information. The links that did look interesting were broken

Eventually I found a document contained a list of known bugs. One of them was " was not included in the distribution. This will be fixed in the next update." Fantastic!

Has anyone out there successfully installed this compiler? My employers are very interested in using it (we want fast code for our intel machines), and I am very interested in trying it out.

Re:Yeah, I'm not happy either...

[Anonymous Coward]

If I were you, I'd be more worried about the foolish shit you post to slashdot every day.

Re:USENET ARCHIVES: NOOOOOO

[lostguy]

Oh good lord, you have no idea. Trying to gross out people on alt.tasteless in the very early 90s granted me the legacy of some exceedingly sick shit, much of which I posted in my real name. I stumbled on them a short while back while searching for my name and hometown. (I foolishly had mention of it in my sig.)

Why does youth always have to coincide with incredible stupidity?

Maybe Google is going to milk the cash cow of charging for selective deletions. I'd pay $50 for each of certain posts to go away permantly.