Slashback: Grammy, Sirius, Levies 190
After the bowling ball, the mouse. jonny writes: "Most people here know the story of the Mac and the growth of the GUI. Most of you probably don't know the whole story though, namely you probably don't know the story of the mouse, important as it is... Interesting too."
Additional reading material for the math-inclined. Bruce Schneier dropped a note with some good reading material for anyone interested in the recent Slashdot posts on factoring and SNMP. "I've written essays on the Bernstein factoring paper and SNMP SNMP vulnerability."
Americans shouldn't be too smug about this stuff. An Anonymous Coward writes, in response to the proposed increase in levies on various recordable media in Canada: "An excellent FAQ including information on how manufacturers, importers, and consumers can avoid the levies on CDRs and CDRWs"
It's not all sweetness and light. Lord Omlette writes: "Ok, I know ya'll ran the story on Apple winning a grammy. But! The acceptance speech got cut for time reasons & stuff, so Dr. Dobb's Journal put a transcript of the speech online for posterity & stuff. I didn't see it in the previous Slashdot story or the Apple press release, so I thought you might be interested."
Uncle, uncle, make him give me his toy! Sabalon writes "NetStumbler is running an article about Intersil and Motorola's response to Sirius and XM's appeal to the FCC to restrict the 2.4Ghz band. Intersil points out some interesting points, such as why the frequencies directly surrounding those that Sirius uses is not an issue, and Motorola believes the source of the interference is not 2.4Ghz, but probably engine and ignition noise."
How to save some very expensive seconds. In case a 23-second kernel compile is too long to bear, perhaps you just need to upgrade a bit. An Anonymous Coward writes: "Linux Weekly News reports that a kernel was compiled in 7.5 seconds on a Power4 with 6 GB of RAM."
Finally, it has come to this. Another reader points out: "Be, Inc., the company that developed and marketed the loved Be operating system, has announced sale of the be.com domain.
This would be a great time for someone to sweep it up. ;) *cough*OpenBeOS*cough*"
slashdot clarifications etc (Score:3, Funny)
OpenBeOS (Score:2, Funny)
As stated in Field of Dreams [imdb.com], "If you build it, they will come."
Forget about Linux and AtheOS, BeOS is the way to go!
You want to charge me for this? (Topic: Meta) (Score:0, Funny)
Who's Steve Job? Is bad grammar and spelling and use of malapropisms a prerequisite for a job at /.?
If so, sign me up. I'm sure their are plety of other who would foot the bill, too.
Note to clueless moderators, should the story get updated:
The original story read as Steve Job's Grammy acceptance speech...
7.5 seconds? (Score:3, Funny)
psxndc
Oh the humanity! (Score:4, Funny)
7.5 Seconds! Bah! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:6 gigs or 60 gigs? (Score:2, Funny)
Looks like someone has way too much free time on their hands. But the 32 processors and 60 GB RAM, maybe I would have more free time too.
I like the CPU utilization of 2200% for the compile. At 22:1 my 10 hour day would only take 27 minutes. With time out for checking email, reading Slashdot, and scoring the occassional doughnut I could still be done in a hour.
No Britney Spears for you (Score:1, Funny)
Note that the Copyright Act ONLY allows for copies to be made of "sound recordings of musical works". Nonmusical works, such as audio books or books-on-tape are NOT covered.
Can the Britney Spears CD's be called "musical works"? I think that she's safe.
Re:NOT 6 GB RAM (Score:2, Funny)
Re:First Mouse? (Score:3, Funny)
which would make sense, since while Gore invented the Internet, Bush invented the mouse...