Linux For Supervillains 256
computernut writes "Supervillains seem to like Linux. Take a peek at a cool Shockwave Animation on why they use it." Cute little animation. I think we might have shown it here before, but hey it's Sunday, and August which means this is the closest thing to news we might have all day.
Are you kidding me? (Score:5, Informative)
Anyway, the video -- which is funny -- is several years old and comes from http://www.ubergeek.tv/ [ubergeek.tv]
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:3, Informative)
For instance, I've installed FlashBlock and PrefBar several times in mozilla and/or firefox. They both test out ok, and work for a week or two. Then one day I find a movin' pitcher running in a moz or FF window, check, and sure enough; it's flash. F'r instance, flash was blocked a few days ago in FF, but when I pasted this comic's URL into a FF window, it came up and ran instantly.
Anyone got any other good clues about killing this cpu sinkhole
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:2)
Ellen Feiss? I think she turns 18 soon.. (Score:2)
Well ok, time to reopen that issue and find out. Considering the current crop of vacuous airheads that are living in their 15 minutes now at least we know that one uses computers. I doubt she will ever say '
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:2)
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:2)
Of course (Score:5, Funny)
Linux is for Supervillians. The Good Guys use NetBSD.
Being a supervillian/evil overlord (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Being a supervillian/evil overlord (Score:2)
Why don't you give credit to the person who actually made the list? It's at http://www.eviloverlord.com/ [eviloverlord.com].
Oh? (Score:2)
Re:Of course (Score:2)
I believe you meant no remove root exploits in the default installation in the past N years. OpenBSD is by far the most secure operating system there is.
As for NetBSD not bringing alot to the community, my roommate and uncle just came back from Linuxworld as part of the NetBSD team (you may have seen pictures of their toaster.) NetBSD is designed for ease of portability. People often bicker and argue about which runs on more platforms: NetBSD or Linux. While it's a toss-up between NetBSD and the Linux
News for Nerds? (Score:5, Interesting)
This thing is nearly 3 years old
It's mentioned on other websites [milkandcookies.com] with a date of january 2003!
Re:News for Nerds? (Score:2)
everyone hates on Taco.. (Score:5, Insightful)
*gasp* He's just another lazy computer geek! Everyone, get the pitchforks and torches! We're supposed to all be pissed off cuz he's getting paid to be a lazy geek! We're supposed to gripe about having subscriptions and.. o, wait, I'm an AC.
Yes, anyway, Taco is still my man.
Or... (Score:2, Insightful)
Why we used to love
Why we don't love it anymore: There's now a quota of one article per hour (or one per 2 hours during USA-side nights and weekends). This
Re:everyone hates on Taco.. (Score:3, Funny)
More Microsoft FUD (Score:5, Funny)
First, "they hate copyright", now "they want to destroy the world". What next? "They're trying to put an entire industry (anti-virus) out of business!"?
Re:More Microsoft FUD (Score:2, Interesting)
Don't laugh. Darl McBride actually mentioned this animation in his Long Live Unix [groklaw.net] letter. He was making fun of the "First you have to config it, then write some shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..." part, but he raised this obviously humorous animation as a serious criticism of Linux.
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:2)
Breakout... Super Breakout... Photoshop.
Re:Well... (Score:2)
As a mac user, I'm glad I like my games on a TV and without a keyboard!
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Re:Well... (Score:2, Funny)
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It probably appeared on Slashdot before, I'd guess...
This was as useless as the article- (Score:2)
Re:Well... (Score:2)
If anyone remembers this ad please reply to this post! I'd dearly love to see it again.
Re:Well... (Score:2)
slashdot (Score:4, Informative)
It may be old.... (Score:5, Funny)
Um, how come (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Um, how come (Score:3, Insightful)
Key word: August (Score:2)
The other key word is "Sunday", meaning no companies issued press releases yesterday or today. If a company has done something interesting (and face it: in the tech world a lot of stuff gets done by companies) it comes out either as a press rele
Re:Um, how come (Score:2, Insightful)
i'm dumber! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i'm dumber! (Score:2)
Oi! That be dumberber.
Re:i'm dumber! (Score:2)
Re:i'm dumber! (Score:5, Funny)
Try browsing at -1, you'll find many posters who seem to have overcome that particular disability...
Re:i'm dumber! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:i'm dumber! (Score:2)
--jeff++
This thing is called Flash for 5 years already! (Score:2, Informative)
'several' years old? try 5 (Score:2)
See how much has changed since then, as the Linux revolution in ease of use and consistency has swept the world's desktop
Re:'several' years old? try 5 (Score:2)
Re:'several' years old? try 5 (Score:2)
Supervillains (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Supervillains (Score:2)
Oh, and if you were referring to the Axis of E-vil, then you forgot iAtollah CP/Meini.
Re:Supervillains (Score:2)
Uhm, Bill Gates?
Naaahhh...
BTW, I saw "Stealth" last night. Check out the Seattle ubergeek's secretary in the last half hour. Does anybody think Bill has a secretary that looks like that? She had legs that could span Puget Sound.
Now, if I ever get my AI working, I definitely would have a secretary that looks like that.
Re:Supervillains (Score:2, Offtopic)
Wow. (Score:5, Interesting)
A popular animation
on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050808/lam060.h
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08
Re:Wow. (Score:2)
Switch Gates (Score:2)
Well, did you know... (Score:4, Funny)
I liked it! (Score:2, Insightful)
Don't watch flash movies and drive (Score:2, Funny)
I Loved It (Score:2)
Kim Polese used this at her talk announcing SpikeSource last year. I had just downloaded it a few days before myself, so when I listened to the MP3 of her talk and heard this come on, I was like, "Oh, cool, Kim!"
I count Kim as a "gorgeous fembot" for this coolness.
Sadly, Linux has not yet improved my love life.
But the orbiting brain laser research is going well on Mandrake 10.1 - to be upgraded to 2006 when i
Re:OLD! (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:OLD! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:AKA "Slashdot for Suckers" (Score:2)
Next time I submit a story, I'll just make sure it's Sunday in August.
Besides, the video did make me laugh, and on a day I could use it, so I'm happy.
D
Re:Hey, I happen to like this... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Hey, I happen to like this... (Score:2)
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It's a lot better now, but part of the reason I thought this was funny (although I'd seen it long ago) was that I spent all night installing Ubuntu on a laptop I got for free when we cleaned house at work.
Pretty much everyth
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:5, Interesting)
For most desktop use, though, an X crash (which is probably what you mean by "KDE and Gnome go down all the time") wipes out all your unsaved work and demands a reboot, just as a full-blown operating system crash does. The hair-splitting about "completely crash" doesn't change that.
The bitching about BSODs goes back to when Linux use involved running vi in an xterm in FVWM on barebones video cards. In those days, the GUI really was rock-solid (and Windows was really as flimsy as people made out).
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Perhaps you could enlighten me as to why an X crash demands a reboot or even wipes out all your work. My work? I use emacs inside a screen. Even if X dies a horrible death (which I've managed to pull off twice in the last six months by purposely attempting to use drivers labelled as experimental or not quite for my card) it's no different than if your ftpd choked. Restart and move on.
While it can happen... it's VERY rare that choking
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't. That's the point. The common argument that if X crashes, your OS hasn't crashed is a strawman. Most users apps are going to be running in X anyways.
The "console environment" is the virtual console layer, which is separate from X. That's what he's talking about. I have no rea
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:3, Insightful)
Note that I prefaced my comment with "For most desktop use, though..." Most desktop use uses the GUI and an X crash wipes out all your work. Most desktop users don't have a second computer to ssh in and kill the locked-up X on the first.
If the "At last, Linux Is Ready For The Desktop!" crowd wishes to add a caveat that "...as long as you do all your work in screen and have two computers" -- then, yeah, Linu
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Uhm, who needs ssh? Switch to a virtual terminal and kill the X process.
Trivial (assuming the end user knows about virtual terminals and ls and kill -9 - and those ARE things a new user should learn even if 99% of their time is spent in X - just like a new Windows user should know about the Recovery Console.)
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
No, no, no.
X does not control your keyboard in console mode.
When X crashes, you do Alt-F1 to bring up a virtual terminal which is a CONSOLE app, and then you kill X. It has nothing to do with whether the X server is responding to keyboard input - you're using kill -9 from the console to tell the kernel to kill the job.
It's done every day by somebody somewhere. I've done it on rare occasions when X has locked up.
And whether you lose your work or not depends on the app that's running. Many editors, for insta
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, not only is the topic three years old, but so are the comments.
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:4, Informative)
You do realise that there's other desktop environments and window managers than KDE/Gnome, right? I find that those two DEs go down fairly frequently as well. Since switching to XFCE, however, I have never had a crash. Ever. It's absolutely rock-solid, and as long as it's development is focused on speed and stability over, say, bells&whistles, it's going to continue to be rock-solid.
And if you don't like XFCE, there's nothing to stop you from using *box, fvwm, or hell, even tab-window-manager. Maybe your problems with X have less to do with X or Linux themselves, and more to do with your choice of using Desktop Environments with known memory leaks (KDE) and stability problems when dealing with unexpected library versions (Gnome).
And in the event of an X crash, I wouldn't lose my documents, either. At most, I'd lose 5 minutes' work, because that's the interval at which AbiWord is set to autosave my work. Hell, my music wouldn't even stop playing, thanks to me using MPD.
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2, Insightful)
Only if Linux is your hobby. Something it will never be, and shouldn't be, for the vast majority of people.
"What? Grandma? You're having problems with the Linux box I conned you into buying? It doesn't work as well as your Windows one did? Well, you ignorant slut, don't you realize that the KDE and Gnome that came preinstalled are crap? Those are crashing, not your computer. You don't know the d
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
If Task Manager will decide to let you on that given day...
Or not take an hour to do it.
Killing a process and restarting X is trivial on Linux - MUCH more so than on Windows.
The bottom line: Windows is STILL not a multi-user or even seriously multi-tasking OS compared to Linux. Windows can't find its ass with both hands.
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
You don't need to reboot to restart explorer. Just kill it and start a new instance. GOSH!
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
The parent post is modded down because it's a pack of lies... that's all...
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:2)
On
Re:Shockwave? (Score:2)
Re:Shockwave? (Score:2)
Re:Shockwave? (Score:2)
Re:Shockwave? (Score:2)
As long as we're posting three year old flash clips, you don't expect an accurate description too, do you?
Re:Uh huh. (Score:2)
Re:Uh huh. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Confused? (Score:3, Informative)
> rpm --qf "%{NAME} - %{SUMMARY}: %{VERSION}\n%{VENDOR}\n" -q flash-player mozilla
flash-player - Macromedia Flash plugin: 7.0.25.0
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
mozilla - The Open Source successor of the Netscape browser: 1.7.5
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Hope this helps.
Re:Confused? (Score:2)
--jeff++
Re:Confused? (Score:2)
Re:Confused? (Score:2)
Get a clue, then open mouth
Re:Confused? (Score:2)
To clarify, though it's already been done, the animation you saw is a Flash animation. Flash does and always has run fine on Linux, though the releases are somewhat behind the windows and mac releases. Shockwave is an entirely different thing (by the same company), and there is no linux player. Last I checked (which was over a year ago) it worked with CrossOver, but that put up ads in the middle of what you were doing.
Since you asked, I use Gentoo, and it was about a day old (gotta love emerge --sync
Re:Confused? (Score:5, Informative)
A shockwave animation is one that is produced in Macromedia Director, and requires an entirely different plugin.
They're separate products and separate file formats. The flash format (which is far more common) is vector based, and was designed to stream interesting animations to people while using up as little bandwidth as possible. Similarly, the flash player itself is (or at least originally was) designed to be as small as possible.
In contrast, the shockwave player was designed from the start to handle lots of stuff (bitmaps, vectors, 3d) and so was always a much heavier player.
So anyway, the parent post is right, I think. This is a FLASH animation, not a shockwave animation. Calling this a shockwave animation in the headline is misleading.
Re:Confused? (Score:2)
Re:Anyone else find it amusing... (Score:2)
Re:Anyone else find it amusing... (Score:2)
Re:Anyone else find it amusing... (Score:2)