Like many, I cut my teeth on Slackware in 1995. There was just something about it -- even then, Windows sucked, OS/2 was cool but lacked the "tinker" factor and unix was unix. I would have never thought back then that Linux would become what it is today.

Congrats Slackware, you've certainly helped many a generation of sysadmins and tinkerers along the way.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

The Eclipse Andmore project takes off where ADT left off. It's still in infancy, so don't hesitate to get involved:

http://projects.eclipse.org/pr...

I've had good success with Quake II and Age of Empires -- the original one.

Quake II has a co-op mode, and my (girlfriend at the time) really got into it. Then I started on Age of Empires (the 1997 game) and since we can team up, we played that plenty.

But we haven't played other games, not from lack of trying. I think the success factors for those two games:
- Simple, Easy to play
- The game eventually ends
- Did I mention Simple?

When we got bored with AoE we eventually tried AoE II. The game was much more complex than the original AoE, and a game tended to "never end" -- you'd save and continue the same game forever, whereas AoE we had it down to a 45 minute to 1 hour game.

That being said, my wife got into the Sims, and I didn't, so a gamine duo we are not. And I don't push it either.

Thanks for the laughs... Well done.

Rob,

Been reading Slashdot for 14 years. Like many, I posted more back then, but I've always checked in regularly.

You did good -- this place won't be the same without you.

Thanks for everything, and good luck moving forward.

This guy needs to learn some pet control, what a waste.

Awesome, should share it.

Sure, why would they have two operating systems for essentially the same market. Its not the difference between a server / desktop-book os.

Seems like just a jaded former employee or a poorly presented article / post.

They should provide a fast one stop cgi that their users can do go that will perform these steps, not 'visit our sites and figure shit out'.

Annoying.

My Timex Sinclair I got in early 1982 still works like a charm... Granted, it's 6 years younger than this, but it's still almost 30 years old!

In the end, he should buy a small car in addition to keeping his truck. If he uses the small car all the time, he'll still have his truck to haul the heavy loads without incurring any cost for leasing.