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Comment Re:Pretty much anything by Kurt Vonnegut (Score 1) 437

by vtel57 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:30PM (#54578087) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier?

I'll wholeheartedly second this suggestion. Vonnegutt has been a fav of mine for over 40 years.

Comment Re:Early James Michener (Score 1) 437

by vtel57 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:28PM (#54578073) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier?

Basically anything by Michener is outstanding. I loved Texas, Hawaii, Centennial, and many others.

Comment Books I Should Have Read in High School (Score 1) 437

by vtel57 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:26PM (#54578059) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier?

Here's a link to a blog posting I made awhile back listing some of the great books that I was assigned in high school, but never read then (except for the Cliff's Notes versions). I've since read and loved them all.

https://noctslackv2.wordpress....

Regards,

~Eric

Submission + - Slackware Documentation Project Begins In Earnest

Submitted by vtel57 on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @11:45AM

vtel57 writes: A recent thread at Jeremy's LinuxQuestions.org (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackbuilds-org-vs-slackware-documentation-4175422561/) lit a fire of enthusiasm for a new Slackware documentation initiative. A new SlackDocs Wiki has been started on Alien Bob's (Eric Hameleers) server (http://taper.alienbase.nl/dokuwiki/). There is also a new mailing list (http://lists.alienbase.nl/mailman/listinfo/slackdocs) for discussion and coordination of the project. All interested parties are encouraged to visit and participate.

Comment Oh, Darn! (Score 1) 807

by vtel57 on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @12:06PM (#39262669) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x?

Sorry to read about your travails, Mooga. The world moves on, you know. It's pretty inevitable. For a long time I held out with my Win 98SE. I finally had to go to XP, though. Nowadays, I'm a happy penguin (Linux user). I could never have achieved my current computing nirvana had I not embraced change and progress. Come join the rest of us while we ride the ever-changing wave of technical progress. Have FUN!

Comment Hmmmph! (Score 1) 720

by vtel57 on Friday February 03, 2012 @05:28PM (#38921287) Attached to: Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist

Let's just all swing our naked asses out in the breeze so BIG BRO can kiss them.

Submission + - Jim Zemlin: Only idiots don't give back to FOSS (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by

Julie188

on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @10:11AM

Julie188 writes: "Taking without contributing back to the upstream project defeats the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all open source users realize this, contends Jim Zemlin, executive director of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. So the time for cajoling those users — even commercial projects like Canonical — into participating is over. Contributing is "not the right thing to do because of some moral issue or because we say you should do it. It's because you are an idiot if you don't," he says."

Comment Adios, G+... and Google (Score 1) 417

by vtel57 on Monday August 29, 2011 @12:08AM (#37238838) Attached to: Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network

After reading this load of schmidt from Eric, I reacted this way: https://noctslackv1.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/google-wont-pwn-me/ I'm done. :)

Comment Memory Deluge (Score 1) 364

by vtel57 on Sunday July 17, 2011 @11:21AM (#36793166) Attached to: Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know

Between running Google+ and Pandora in Pin-As-App tabs, and my other regular browsing, FF has been slurping up resources in my Slackware and Arch installations like there's no tomorrow. It's getting old. Maybe today's project should be getting to know Chrome/Chromium?

Comment Good News, I S'pose... (Score 1) 77

by vtel57 on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @11:12PM (#34339512) Attached to: Attachmate To Retain Novell Unix Copyrights

... not that we were really worried or anything. The MS Police won't be kicking in my door to strip Slackware off my system any time soon. Whew!

Attachmate To Retain Novell Unix Copyrights 77

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @08:02PM from the mine-now-I-keep-it dept.

angry tapir writes "Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman has revealed. The confirmation, which came in a terse message posted to Novell's website, seems to rule out questions of whether Unix assets are part of some 882 patents being sold to a Microsoft-led consortium, CPTN Holdings, as part of the deal."

Comment Thought provoking, though... (Score 1) 289

by vtel57 on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @10:45AM (#34318154) Attached to: Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix

Brian Proffitt's a great guy and all, and I'm sure he's right, but what if? What if?

Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix 289

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 22, 2010 @05:23PM from the how's-that-for-definitive dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Word came down this morning that when Attachmate bought Novell, certain intellectual property rights were sold to a Microsoft-led consortium as part of the deal. Since Unix is the most valuable piece of IP Novell owns, there was a certain amount of panic that suddenly Redmond is in charge of this foundational technology for Linux and a number of other open source projects. But, while MS is being cagey, Brian Proffitt doubts that Unix was part of the IP package that was sold — and believes that Linux would be safe even if it were."

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