The unix-haters handbook

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There are no reviews yet. Score: 3 , Informative. Look six headlines down assuming you don't block topics and it's still here on the main page. Share twitter facebook. Score: 4 , Insightful. If the Taco isn't at least going to read his own web site before posting, why doesn't he at least write a little slash module to search recent articles for possible duplicates?

Wouldn't be hard to do, wouldn't have to be some fancy Bayesian filter Parent Share twitter facebook. Score: 2 , Funny. Why they haven't done this yet is absolutely beyond me. Too busy playing video games and watching anime, I guess. Score: 5 , Funny. The dupes are a UNIX usability thing - it won't be cleared up until the slashcode port to another platform completes. Exactly, they need to move to Windows where everything has so many features [microsoft. Score: 5 , Interesting.

What about something that just scanned for duplicate URLs for the last 48 hours. Score: 5 , Insightful. That would help more if people would stop writing articles that read like: "There's an article [cnn.

I'm sure all of Slashdot [slashdot. The White House [whitehouse. Score: 3 , Funny. Score: 2. You fools, you know they do this stuff on pupose ;.

I guess I just don't plain old get it. How, in the scheme of the whole freaking universe, does it matter if there is a duplicate post??????

I don't fucking get it. I mean, if it's such a waste of time, what are you doing If it's a duplicate, use the fancy little button on your browser labelled "Back". It's not that difficult. I, for one, don't give a fly's ass whether an article is re-posted once and a while, there are bigger things to worry about in the world.

Score: 3 , Insightful. Lets just make it simple: Much like Gods, Kittens, and Masturbation relavent link for non-clues here [hosstyle. People have to have something to complain about. Otherwise, what are they going to do with their time?

Take you for instance. You've just spent time complaining about other people complaining! This is silly! Hey, wait a second Quit your anti-bitching! You're messing up our chi. Two sets of comments to pay attention to Score: 2. It's frustrating for me because there's now two totally independent sets of comments that I may want to read. People posting in one article will continue to post there and only there and may not even have any idea about the other article. Frequently the same sorts of posts will end up in both places redundantly, sometimes prompting replies in both places if you want to get your viewpoint known.

Plus, it's just annoying and amateurish to keep seeing them over and over and over again. This is supposed to. Don't pay for it if you don't get any value from it then.

Just stop whining about something so trivial. Re:Um, your subscriber star is showing Score: 2. It's not exactly what you have in mind, but the "Scoop" system used at www.

It work quite well there; something similar could surely be tailored for Slashdot. Re:Here's how to do it: Score: 2.

What The Fuck does Taco do all day? And yet they won't even put out this minimal level of effort, but they want us to pay for it. Score: 2 , Interesting. I'm sorry to say that dupes will continue on and on and on as long as Taco is an editor here. I didn't used to think this so. Who is going to subscribe to Slashdot Anyway, I hope Taco does "get it" sooner rather that later because I like sla. Another Fucking Dupe! You know, the fucking dupes are getting so fucking bad it's not even fun making fun of Taco anymore.

That way, you can pretend it's a joke instead of another amazinly stupid fuckup. Re:Another Fucking Dupe! The worst is when you submit, it gets rejected, and then the same story gets accepted a few days later. Ah, the bitter taste of frustration Double vision Score: 2 , Funny. Damn this double vision I got sux Damn this double vision I got sux. Good job there guys. Removed from the web. Score: 5 , Informative. The link has been removed until the "brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to dies down".

If you go to the google cache to get the link, you will get a "forbidden" error when you try to use it.

Lucky, the pdf of the book is in the Google Cache [ Re:Removed from the web. That's one way, I suppose, to censor the web.

Slashdot it. At the top left corner of the dedication page a single word that reveals the ugly truth: vi. I guess Taco hates Unix so much, he wanted us to see this story twice. Now we'll see it repeated all week! Slashdot needs a dupe section. The editors could move the articles there after they find it's duplicated, and this way we could choose to filter them out.

The editors don't read slashdot Score: 2. Not good enough for them anymore I guess. If they did bother to read the articles posted, there wouldn't be any duplicates Conspiracy theory: deliberate dupe. This time the duplicate is deliberate: they're trying to double -slashdot That Company's servers.

Little test Re:Little test Karma shouldn't be in the hands of stupid people anyways. I will admit it soon :P. Time Travel Score: 2. I thought I was in the Matrix when I saw this one again. I saw it yesterday about 7pm then this morning, holy crap. Thanks for you messing with my head. Double Vision Score: 3 , Funny. Feeling down 'n' dirty, feeling kinda mean I've been from one to another extreme This time I had a good time, ain't got time to wait I wanna stick around till I can't see straight Fill my eyes with that double vision No disguise for that double vision Ooh, when you get through to me, it's always new to me My double vision gets the best of me Never do more than I, I really need My mind is racing, but my body's in the lead Tonight's the night, I'm gonna push it to the limit I live all my years in a single minute Fill my eyes with that double vision No disguise for that double vision Ooh, when you get through to me, it's always new to me My double vision always seems to get the best of me, yeah-ah Fill my eyes with that double vision No disguise for that double vision Ooh, when you get through to me, it's always new to me My double vision gets me Ooh, when it gets through to me, it's always new to me My double vision always seems to get the best of me Yeah, the best of me.

Cut and paste mirror link from previous article. I'm going to fire him so hard when I get in to work Monday Well, we all know it's a dupe Score: 2 , Offtopic. So instead of talking shit about it, how about you all go read a story that I submitted to Slashdot about 4 times, but of course, got rejected. Opera is Spyware?! Re:Well, we all know it's a dupe Score: 4 , Informative.

Klink retired writes: on Sunday April 27, AM Maybe there's a good reason they rejected it. Like the first paragraph that says: Andrew Busigin says: "The best advice I have, is to disregard the article entirely, until a more complete and competent analysis can be properly prepared, reviewed, and published.

Re:Well, we all know it's a dupe Score: 2 , Interesting. Re:Well, we all know it's a dupe Score: 3 , Interesting. Don't waste your time with this Inquirer story as I just did , it was rejected four times for a very good reason: It doesn't contain any interesting facts. The author believed to have detected indications that should make you suspicious about Opera's privacy policy and its practical implementation. However, he couldn't verify anything.

The article is just a long rant that digressed into the totally irrelevant several times. Oh, wait a moment, you're reading responses to a dupe, you're already wasting your. Score: 2 , Informative. For non-Unixites I should explain that "rm" means "remove. And there's no Undo. A "rite of passage"? In no other industry could a manufacturer take such a cavalier attitude toward a faulty product. Here and there, the tone of The Unix-Haters Handbook becomes a little shrill, and once or twice its attacks miss their lawful prey - or go a bit overboard in praising competitive systems.

But in the main, it is a well-justified cautionary tale. I hope it is widely read, its moral taken to heart. Absolutely Fabulous. Pop Goes the Millennium.