Re: Slashdot

2006-01-17 Thread tom hart
what up dude

Slashdot

2002-11-07 Thread THOMAS EDWARD HART
There's a Hurd story on the front page of Slashdot. Just wanted to let everyone know. -- Tom Hart

Re: Slashdot story

2002-10-05 Thread Rob Bradford
ave on Debian that would be much appreciated. I'm not inclined to post Slashdot trash =) And general Debian GNU/Hurd articles are always appreciated. Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monke

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread Timothy Rue
On 30-Sep-02 10:43:28 Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JB> Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front JB> page. JB> If any of you have time over the day, can you please check in JB> there and help dispell some of the usual FUD and misinformation

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread James Morrison
--- Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:19:53PM +0200, PUYDT Julien wrote: > > Le lun 30/09/2002 à 17:43, Jeff Bailey a écrit : > > > Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front page. > > > > By the way, I r

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread Jeff Bailey
e trolling, a few people will look at the slashdot article and decide that the Hurd is worth a try one more time. If we're *really* lucky, they'll be ex-Kernel hackers from somewhere else who decide that they need a challenge. Pretty much all of the folks we have hacking away right now se

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 30/09/2002 à 18:32, Jeff Bailey a écrit : > "And the poor sysadmin is probably sitting there wondering why his > connection is slow, pulls up slashdot for some light reading and > screams in anguish as he realises he has about 10 seconds left of > usable net connection.

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:19:53PM +0200, PUYDT Julien wrote: > > Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front page. > By the way, I remember some years ago on that same front page the > news about somebody running a www server (apache?) under the > Hurd. His

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:19:53PM +0200, PUYDT Julien wrote: > Le lun 30/09/2002 à 17:43, Jeff Bailey a écrit : > > Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front page. > > By the way, I remember some years ago on that same front page the news > about somebo

Re: Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread PUYDT Julien
Le lun 30/09/2002 à 17:43, Jeff Bailey a écrit : > Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front page. By the way, I remember some years ago on that same front page the news about somebody running a www server (apache?) under the Hurd. His connection was dead in minutes...

Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread Jeff Bailey
Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front page. If any of you have time over the day, can you please check in there and help dispell some of the usual FUD and misinformation that is usual for slashdot? (Especially around the Hurd!) Tks, Jeff Bailey -- learning

Re: slashdot interest

2001-10-16 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:45:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeff and others have been defending the flag... Hurd articles are the only time I get moderated up. ;) I have to get my karma points *sometime*... -- Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy.

Re: slashdot interest

2001-10-16 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:33:43PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Of course, 99% of the discussion is about what the name should be. > Unfortunately, nobody pointed them to the FAQ entry about the naming > yet. I'm generally willing to beleive that anyone who's going to waste their time by rant

Re: slashdot interest

2001-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:45:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >As you may already know, or not care, Debian GNU/Hurd gets a > mention on slashdot: > > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/15/2357255.shtml > > Jeff and others have been defe

slashdot interest

2001-10-16 Thread Paul . Emsley
As you may already know, or not care, Debian GNU/Hurd gets a mention on slashdot: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/15/2357255.shtml Jeff and others have been defending the flag...

(Slashdot) Dr. Dobbs' Journal On Hurd + top comments Re: Avoid Hurd

2000-11-02 Thread Tom E. Turner
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Re: Ask Slashdot: HURD For 'Big Iron'?

2000-10-18 Thread Joshua Rosen
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > Cliff-whoever-he-is should never have posted this question, as it is > downright silly and the quick answer is more than obvious, and the long > answer is not to be found out by the bunch of slashdotters. Slashdot is > very bad at researching the backg

Re: Ask Slashdot: HURD For 'Big Iron'?

2000-10-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, Cliff-whoever-he-is should never have posted this question, as it is downright silly and the quick answer is more than obvious, and the long answer is not to be found out by the bunch of slashdotters. Slashdot is very bad at researching the background of the stuff they post. Thanks anyway

Ask Slashdot: HURD For 'Big Iron'?

2000-10-18 Thread Tom E. Turner
--- Start of forwarded message --- URL: http://slashdot.org/ Ask Slashdot: HURD For 'Big Iron'? News Posted by Cliff on Wednesday October 18, @07:18AM from the stuff-to-think-about dept. Julian Stoev wrote in with this query: "Recently I've se

Hurd-related Slashdot article

2000-02-02 Thread Mark Lundeberg
Here it is: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/01/1642229&mode=thread It's about some people who preinstalls Hurd on systems, but it should be a good discussion base nevertheless. Mark Lundeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pgfn.bc.ca/~aa026/

Re: Hurd on slashdot

2000-01-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:56:50AM +0100, David Madore wrote: > > I've posted a few comments, trying not to say *too* much nonsense. If > a more knowledgeable person could come in and check for inaccuracies > in the discussion, it might be a good idea. Well, what I read so far from you is pretty

Hurd on slashdot

2000-01-09 Thread David Madore
Hi. There's another discussion about the Hurd taking place on Slashdot currently: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/09/097223&mode=thread (the starting point being that some English company offers computers with Debian GNU/Hurd pre-installed alongside GNU/Linux). I'v