6 funny modded posts in less than two hours.

  Expecting the Political Correctness Police to show up at the door any moment.

  It's not like I wasn't given good straight lines...thanks, Microsoft :)

SB

This post attached to the MS Security Chief's latest idiotic statement, has my vote as the funniest post this week. Thank you for the laughter, Tackhead. The brain screen images are fabulous...

  Now I have a topic to pursue on my journal; posts which at the same time are funny, insightful, etc ->> PLUS display the most creative use or abuse of language in general.

  Think of it as the George Carlin Tribute; GC is, in my opinion, the absolute best at displaying all of those attributes. He just has this way of making one think whilst simultaneously devolving into hysterical laughter...as Tackhead's post had me doing.

  I welcome any and all submissions. Maybe there'll be a poll :) (Hey, now *there's* an idea - "Funniest Slashdot Post" :) 10,349 comments...)

  We could rate it in ounces of liquid snorted thru the nose, or perhaps in damage incurred in falling off the chair, etc....

  The possibilities boggle the mind.

ShadowBearer

Uh huh. I rarely meta moderate, but I have mod points once a week on the average. Or have they changed slashcode again? I wonder if this is related to some journal discussions I saw lately.

SB

It sucks. It's not intuitive, and there doesn't seem to be any way to sort the comment order by date. It's just plain fucking confusing.

  Jesus, the old system worked just fine. Why did they have to change it? To pretty it up? Now it's in it's own little defined table window or whatever?

  Arrrgghhh

SB

Good lord.

  A week ago or so I installed KDE 3.2 via Konstruct. Aside from one slight annoyance (moving full-screened windows resulting in a kwin crash, which I reported as a bug, with details) it worked fairly well.

  Then I made the mistake of doing a system update.

  Shortly afterward I exited KDE to do some console work.

  After that the artsd sound server would crash constantly (about 10 times a minute) once I started kde up again, whether or not I was trying to use the sound server.
  Not only that, but I could not *whatsoever* get sound to work in any mode at all, console, kde, alsa, arts, oss emu, anything at all; varying problems in all modes. This is in a updated Debian install.

  Hours of google searching, reboots, reconfigs, trying this and that, had no result whatsoever. The problems I was experiencing were so varied that I couldn't even track down a cause (although the arts server showed a backtrace into /lib/tls/lib.so.6, nothing else did). I blew away a whole evening off trying to fix this, and I'm pissed off.

  I've had similar problems with artsd a long time ago; but never, ever had a sound system so totally destroyed as it was this time. I finally did get it semi-working by completely wiping out kde's config dir, the mcop configs, the /tmp/mcop dirs, and other things, but the sound ended up with distortion that made it unuseable. No amount of tweaking whatsoever helped.

  Back in the Gentoo partition again, with some wisdom gained. So much for the latest attempt at Debian. This is ridiculous. I have never had problems like this with other window managers or with Gentoo (thinking about taking a shot at installing kde 3.2 on the Gentoo partition, but if it's going to hose my sound, well, NOT).

A very disgusted and confused geek here.

SB

If one has > karma, your between post times go up.

  Shouldn't this be the other way around?

  Shouldn't those who've shown that they can think "on their feet" so to speak, be able to post faster; while those who don't have the karma/posting ability should have to think about their responses longer?

  Is this some kind of politically correct "Let's make everyone equal despite their abilities" thing?

  Mod this journal comment troll/flamebait.

  First journal, for me. Don't really GAF, it's Friday night :)

SB