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CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-06-25, 07:02 (revision 1) Hi.
Custom title here Post: #541 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 21 hours	Posted by Nicholas Steel It's still open for appeal, but a judge has ruled companies are responsible for public comments made on a social media platform that they are using: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/media-companies-liable-for-facebook-comments-made-by-others-court-finds-20190624-p520rf.html DAMMIT, AUSTRALIA! --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

Duck Penis

Posted on 19-06-25, 12:59

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Well, this is how hate speech legislation works already: you have a responsibility to remove it, even if you didn't see it.

On one hand, that's a terrible idea. On the other hand, they could just move it to the US like any sane organization would. Even the ultra-nationalist publications do it, and it stands to reason they would otherwise not be very keen on moving abroad.

In other words, that people are getting prosecuted at random is a decisive improvement from the status quo and something to celebrate. God willing, this will finally put an end to the perverse order of non-US Internet publishing.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.

tomman

Posted on 19-06-26, 01:09

Dinosaur

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From the guy that brought to you chemistry classics like Things I Won't Work With and other boring Big Pharma blogposts, here are some interesting posts about Silly Valley take on biotech:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/24/rewiring-plankton-and-reality
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/07/17/the-case-of-verge-genomics
Basically: "there is an app for that®" is their motto for fixing everything, from cancer to Ebola to genetic disorders!

He even has a name for this unique breed of "biotech hackers armed with VC money": Silicon Valley Sunglasses
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/04/02/silicon_valley_sunglasses

...so great, now the cure to every illness known to mankind is a healthy dose of Javascript. And a new iPhone, just in case.

Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™

Duck Penis

Posted on 19-06-26, 13:22

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Man, FUCK the Washington Post

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It's not even ad blocking, it's straight up private mode. Aren't journalists supposed to at least nominally care about privacy? I'm using perfectly bog-standard Tor Browser with JavaScript on, the same as their dissidents in China or whoever it is they pretend to be deeply concerned about for the moment.

It is innovative though, I'll give them that - "cough up or we'll give your data over to the Google". It sure is something to sell ads to someone who's already paying for your disgrace of a newspaper. Then again, the people who pay to read newspapers online (that's like three layers of WTF at the very least) don't generally tend to be very bright and would probably pay $90 a year because they thought the EU law forces them to do it.

The blocking was also slightly better than usual. It wasn't enough to delete the element, you actually had to open it up in view source and to a CTRL-F for the article content.

Here is the (strikingly dishonest) "article" in its full "glory":

The U.S. women’s soccer team is better than the men’s. That’ll help its case.

If an equal pay lawsuit hinges on performance and fan interest, the women’s team has a good chance

U.S. soccer player Tobin Heath is congratulated on her goal by teammates Mallory Pugh, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan during a match against Brazil. (Mike Carlson/AP)

By Alicia Jessop

Alicia Jessop is an assistant professor of law at Pepperdine University, a sports attorney and a writer who focuses on the intersection of sports, business and the law.

The biggest battle for members of the U.S. women’s national soccer team this year may not be on the pitch during this summer’s World Cup, but in the courtroom. A federal lawsuit by 28 members of the team alleging gender discrimination by U.S. Soccer is the latest dispute over pay for the USWNT.

And this time, the women stand a good chance to win because of their recent performance on the field — and how much better they’ve been than the men’s team.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, alleges gender-based pay discrimination under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The plaintiffs’ success in these claims will hinge on how the court evaluates their recent successes on and off the pitch. According to the complaint, despite greater success than the U.S. men’s national team, the women’s team has consistently been paid drastically less. The women won the 2015 World Cup and shared a bonus of $1.73 million; the men lost in the Round of 16 in the 2014 World Cup and split $5.38 million in performance bonuses. The men, of course, didn’t even make the 2018 World Cup.

[The U.S. women's soccer team is the world's best. But it used to be that men couldn't buy their jerseys.]

Central to the lawsuit is an evaluation of whether members of the men’s and women’s teams perform substantially the same job. Historically, courts have upheld wage disparities between men and women in sports under assertions that men face greater physical and public pressures than women performing jobs in the same field. But filing the complaint in California may help meet that bar, as a 9th Circuit pay discrimination case brought by former University of Southern California women’s basketball coach Marianne Stanley could provide a favorable precedent for the plaintiffs.

In Stanley’s case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit found that the University of Southern California did not violate the Equal Pay Act even though it paid Stanley significantly less than its men’s basketball head coach, George Raveling. The court determined Stanley and Raveling did not perform substantially equal jobs, because the university required more public relations and fundraising activities of Raveling, and the men’s team generated more fan interest and revenue.

But that decision could help the women’s soccer players. Because compared with Stanley’s case, the roles and status between the genders in this case are flipped. In recent years, the U.S. women’s team has outperformed the men’s national team by consistently being ranked No. 1 worldwide and winning the Women’s World Cup in 2015 and gold medals in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. While the women’s team enters this year’s Women’s World Cup as favorites, the U.S. men failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, didn’t advance past the knockout stage in the 2014 World Cup and hasn’t secured an Olympic medal since 1904.

Because of the U.S. women’s national team’s recent success on the pitch, team members have faced increased performance and public relations demands, while enjoying higher viewership ratings. The lawsuit alleges that while members of the men’s and women’s teams are subject to the same training expectations, the women’s team completed 19 more games between 2015 and 2018. Following the team’s 2015 World Cup victory, members engaged in a U.S. stadium tour attracting tens of thousands of fans. According to the lawsuit, the federation’s budget projection was shifted from a combined net loss for both teams of $429,929 to a profit of $17.7 million. The U.S. women’s national team has also outpaced the men’s national team in viewership, as its 2015 Women’s World Cup championship game is the most watched soccer game in American history — for either gender.

[U.S. Soccer is trying to dodge politics by banning anthem protests. It can’t.]

U.S. Soccer will probably use labor law to defend against the lawsuit. After a contentious period following the expiration of the parties’ collective bargaining agreement in 2012, U.S. Soccer and the union for the U.S. women’s national team entered into a new collective bargaining agreement in 2017. Ratified into this agreement was a pay structure for members of the women’s national team. U.S. Soccer will probably argue that members of the team agreed to be paid less than men, and if they want to change their current pay structure, they can attempt to do so in the next collective bargaining session. The current CBA expires in 2021.

But the plaintiffs’ allege that during the most recent negotiations, women’s national team members requested pay at least equal to men’s national team members and were denied. Evidence surrounding discussions during the most recent CBA negotiations, and the climate between U.S. Soccer and the plaintiffs before and during those negotiations will play a central role in the current wage discrimination case.

Along with defenses U.S. Soccer will raise, the plaintiffs face another challenge: The lawsuit seeks to be certified as a collective action. In obtaining collective action certification, the plaintiffs would bring their claims against U.S. Soccer on behalf of any person who was a member of the women’s national team from February 2015 onward. One difficulty there will be that in 2018, former goalkeeper Hope Solo filed a lawsuit against U.S. Soccer alleging violations of the Equal Pay Act and Title VII. Notably, Solo’s attorney is Richard Nichols, the former attorney for the U.S. women’s national team’s union.

The case isn’t likely to be wrapped up before the team takes the field in France this summer — unless it’s dismissed quickly. Soon, U.S. Soccer will file a response to the complaint, where it is likely to categorically deny the allegations and seek dismissal. If the case is not dismissed, the issue of certification of the collective action must be decided, which could take years. The approaching expiration of the CBA will probably drive both sides to work toward a settlement. But with two wage discrimination lawsuits pending against U.S. Soccer, it’s unlikely a settlement will be reached unless U.S. women’s national team members receive payment equal to U.S. men’s national team members.

So the best way to help their case this summer might just be to win the whole tournament again.

On a side note: has UI gone too far?

(note to self: if you ever make a phishing website, just have a really big HTTPS cert that blocks the address bar)

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.

DonJon

Posted on 19-06-26, 16:13 (revision 1)

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this I've never seen before. for ad blockers? Sure. but just for private mode, that's a first.
also chrome:

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-tech-expert-says-we-should-stop-using-google-chrome

A Tech Expert Says Google Chrome Has Become Spy Software

Over a recent week of Web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad and data companies ride shotgun while I clicked around the Web.

This was made possible by the Web's biggest snoop of all: Google. Seen from the inside, its Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-06-26, 21:43 Hi.
Custom title here Post: #544 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 21 hours	"Oh god, Chrome haas cookies, we are all doomed!" --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

BearOso	Posted on 19-06-26, 22:10 Hi.
Post: #96 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days	"Tech Expert" my ass. "I use Firefox like the 1337 haxors now because I'm in the know, so I'm cool beans."

DonJon

Posted on 19-06-27, 00:53 (revision 1)

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Posted by BearOso
"Tech Expert" my ass. "I use Firefox like the 1337 haxors now because I'm in the know, so I'm cool beans."

well ok, but google's track record regarding privacy hasn't exactly been stellar either. though it seems like it's a function of their size more than other companies being "nicer". any company this big is likely to be involved in some rather shady stuff like working with the NSA and "PRISM" and things like that

CaptainJistuce

Posted on 19-06-27, 01:44

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Posted by DonJon

Posted by BearOso
"Tech Expert" my ass. "I use Firefox like the 1337 haxors now because I'm in the know, so I'm cool beans."

well ok, but google's track record regarding privacy hasn't exactly been stellar either. though it seems like it's a function of their size more than other companies being "nicer". any company this big is likely to be involved in some rather shady stuff like working with the NSA and "PRISM" and things like that

Perhaps, but this article isn't even remotely about anything shady Google is doing. It is literally just "Oh god, Chrome has cookies!"
Now, granted, Chrome has extremely limited cookie controls(extremely limited anything controls), but that isn't the same thing as being spyware. And the author foists the blame upon Google instead of the bajillions of sites using cookies to spy on people.

(Ironically, I remember back when Firefox stripped out cookie controls because only nerds cared about cookies. That decision probably did more than anything else to make browser extensions a mainstream feature, since only nerds used anything but Internet Explorer and there was an extension to restore the cookie controls.)

--- In UTF-16, where available. ---

creaothceann	Posted on 19-06-29, 06:41 Hi.
Post: #160 of 456 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 44 days Last view: 1 day	Summer Games Done Quick 2019 My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10

BearOso	Posted on 19-06-29, 15:37 Hi.
Post: #98 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days	Posted by creaothceann Summer Games Done Quick 2019 I'm amused that many of these are hour-long. The usual suspects have been done to death, so they've completely moved on to longer games. I could invest maybe 5 minutes to watch an interesting speed-run, but I don't have the attention to watch someone spend 2 hours playing Minish Cap.

Kakashi	Posted on 19-06-29, 17:18 Hi.
Post: #143 of 210 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1877 days Last view: 1849 days	What about a 3-hour Borderlands 2 3-player Co-op full of glitches and Gearbox commentary?

creaothceann	Posted on 19-06-29, 19:08 Hi.
Post: #161 of 456 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 44 days Last view: 1 day	Just watched the Titanfall 2 run, it's great even if you haven't played the game yourself. Stays entertaining the whole run through. My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10

Broseph	Posted on 19-06-29, 22:16 (revision 2) Hi.
Post: #102 of 166 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1561 days Last view: 1238 days	Posted by creaothceann Summer Games Done Quick 2019 They still have the "Shh! Don't call them R*m hacks" tacit rule I noticed. Which feels silly if they're hosting speed runs on some of those hacks ( played on hardware) anyway but whatever. Rockman 4: Minus Infinity Only a link to the ips patch, so no worries you're gonna get taken down by Nintendo! Reddit thread with Twitch and YT links

creaothceann	Posted on 19-07-01, 10:20 Hi.
Post: #162 of 456 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 44 days Last view: 1 day	Endhiran (The Indian Terminator) My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10

tomman

Posted on 19-07-04, 11:09 (revision 1)

Dinosaur

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Having only a few minutes of Internet access per day gives you more than enough free time to do other stuff you've been neglecting for YEARS. Like another purge of the remnants of my shareware CD-ROM collection, and archiving the stuff from those gold CD-Rs that were bought with my very first PC, 21 years ago (!!!).

Stuff like plenty of ancient edutainment stuff, most of it old Win16 apps like:

- Dorling-Kindersley titles - I really loved their How Stuff Works 2 CDROM, too bad its ancient QuickTime didn't played nice with more modern versions of itself, trying to hijack your BMP/MOV file associations at every time they could!
- Encarta '98. Remember back when there was no Wikipedia? No Google? No dialup modems with most PCs? If you owned a PC and wanted to get fancy over your schoolmates still relying on good ol' textbooks, you had to ~~pirate~~ buy Encarta every freakin' year, and combined with a state-of-the-art color inkjet printer, you could easily become the master of copypasta of your classroom! F in effort, A+ in pretty reports.
- Miscellaneous encyclopedia CD-ROMs from newspapers ("get the first free and buy the other 18 for $LOW_PRICE!!!")

And then, some of the surviving magazine cover CD-ROMs back when I was starting with this "Linux" thing, almost two decades ago. I found this weird jewelcase (seriously, it's the only one I have like this: it opens backwards, there is no room for holding a front cover or a booklet, and it's slimmer than a standard jewelcase but actually not as slim as those dreaded slim packs which broke if you looked at them funny) from a Spainard Linux magazine containing a somewhat popular (in Spain) Linux distro from the era, Esware Linux 365.

Noone ever heard about Esware outside Spain (and some Latin American countries, if you were lucky), and that's because this was a distro aimed at the Spanish market. This was from a era where it was much more feasible to call and buy a bunch of CD-ROMs (that would get obsolete in no time) instead of spending the next 3 months downloading gigabytes of stuff over 33.6K dial-up. But then I could typically find them for free with select computer magazines (this particular specimen is a demo build for the now-defunct Todo Linux magazine issue #15, according to the printing on the cover). I can't recall having any particular luck installing it on my ol' Deceleron shitbox back in 2002, but then that box really hated anything that wasn't Windows 9x/Me (even 2000/XP would BSOD at startup with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, and most Linux distros would either fail to install, boot only to console, or if you were very lucky, with a heavily distorted X11 GUI). Esware 365 (AKA 2.0) was actually a bold move for them, not only they switched their base from Red Hat to Debian, they also tried to embrace the Year of the Linux Desktop™ by making a user-friendly distro, easy to install and to maintain. (I never got to use their original RH flavor)

What makes this particular distro CD-ROM remarkable? We bitch and moan about the disease of Electron/Chrome-in-a-can desktop webapps, where a glorified Silly Valley IRC client can easily bring a octacore Xeon with 64GB RAM down to its knees when some Javascript decides to take a dump on it. But those Esware guys were waaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of its time, as this distro features which is probably the WORST Linux installer I've ever interacted with in my entire career as a Linux user. It's the WORST OS installer (of any kind) I've used, PERIOD. And as you have already guessed it, it was a webapp. Yes, these Spainards were being disruptive in 2001. Too bad their webby shit was unable to achieve its ultimate goal most of the times, which was actually installing a Linux distro to your PC.

First things first: when you boot this thing, you setup your mouse, and get asked which kind of setup would you want to do:
- Normal: it starts its webby setup wizard - actually a barebones X server running Mozilla in kiosk mode, connecting to their setup webapp running in a local Apache instance. If you knew Mozilla back then, it was a miracle that the thing didn't crashed at startup!
- Help: "This distro is brought to you by $LIST_OF_SPAINARD_DUDES"
- Network: Same as normal, sans the X server and kiosk Mozilla. Instead you get to setup your network (no DHCP allowed, assume compatible Ethernet NIC installed), then get prompted to go to another PC in your LAN and connect to the same setup webapp.

Then you make your way through the usual Windows-ish NEXT->NEXT dance (or I must say: Siguiente->Siguiente - there are also English and Galician options, but the English one is ~~broken~~ still in Spanish, and the Galician one is not better as only a few pages are translated). There is a hardware setup page, but strangely you don't get to pick your keyboard map (something essential even today), you don't get to pick a video driver (hope your VESA is not bugged to hell and back!) but only a video mode, the sound setting only allows to perform a sound test (which naturally doesn't work), and you get a completely useless "Other Devices" section. Since this was a demo (the complete version supposedly span across four discs), the package selection is already fixed for you, therefore the entire section is read-only.

Anyway, onto the scariest part of every Linux installer: disk partitioning!
Oh boy, how do you even---?!?!?!?! These Spainards managed to screw up this thing so badly I'm still amazed that they managed to ship this thing as is! The partition tool (actually a bunch of Perl/PHP scripts under the hood, with whatever little bits of JS the Mozillas of the era could cope with sprinkled on top) is a special class of failsauce:
- Sometimes it fails to detect some (or all) of your HDDs, leaving you with no room to install your fancy new Linux distro.
- There is no option to resize or reformat existing partitions, only create new ones.
- There is no undo option!
- It gives you no control over where to place your new partitions, and it reeeeeeally wants you to use extended partitions even on an empty drive.
- Speaking about empty, unpartitioned drives: presenting one of those to the partition tool may cause it to lose its mind, either telling that there is no space, or causing it to create a ~~MurderYoWifeFS~~ ReiserFS partition when you actually wanted an ext2 filesystem!
- Even if you managed to clear all those hurdles and make a sane partitioning scheme, the thing may simply ignore you and create nothing at all, leaving your HDD perfectly untouched, defeating the whole purpose of a partitioning tool (and leading your setup to a surprise halt, as there are no error messages EVER displayed to the user)

If you survive this shitshow, you still have to setup LILO (this step is also prone to silent failure), optionally create a boot floppy (this step also silently fails), setup your network (AGAIN: you already did this on the Hardware setup step, but this time you get to tell them that you're actually not using a dial-up modem anymore), setup users and passwords, and THEN... actual install begins. First, your actual partitioning scheme is applied (if you're lucky, considering how poorly coded is their partitioning "tool"), then the base system is copied to the HDD. And here comes the second WTF of the day...

If you take any Linux distro CD/DVD and start browsing it with your favorite file manager, you will eventually find a directory full of software packages in whatever format is used by your distro maintainers. The install scripts will simply take the contents of those packages and copy them to their intended destinations. There might be some special packages which are manually put in place before all of this (for bootstrapping the base system, or whatever), instead of going through the regular install procedures (things weren't as streamlined in 2001 as they're right now in 2019). That's... not how things were done in Spain back then, it seems. if you browse this Esware 365 CD, you will find a directory with a bunch of 2001-vintage Debian packages, but exactly ZERO of those are used during install phase. Instead, there is a ~184MB tarball (/Esware/base/esware-base-1.0.tgz) with the ENTIRE system image on it - the installer will simply vomit its contents all over your filesystem, including temporary/duplicate files, obsolete cache contents, possibly broken config files, and surprisingly, no kernel package anywhere to be seen. No, that one ships on separate tarballs according to your architecture (which back then could be i386/486/586 -all of those shared the same image-, or i686). Anyway, just like everything on this doomed demodisc, this step was also prone to silent failure: you could sit there, staring at the "Now installing..." display, with absolutely ZERO disk/CPU activity at all. The installer just gives up, walks home, and leaves you -the user- stranded in a big fat seat of nothingness. Just a stoopid "ESWARE 365: WE MAKE LINUX POSSIBLE" animation. "Making Linux Possible" indeed.

If for whatever reason you were chosen to win the lottery, you MIGHT end with an actual working, bootable Linux install somewhere in your HDD! Once inside, you will find a standard KDE2 desktop (not as great as KDE 3.5, but still miles ahead of whatever they're doing right now with Plasma 5, or other LOLDESKTOPS by Silly Valley®), the ability to use standard .deb packages, and no kernel .debs installed anywhere. Or working sound. Or video drivers other than VESA. God, how spoiled we have become nowadays, with our fancy Linux distros with full-blown 3D graphics acceleration, bloated sound systems, wireless networking that (often) Just Works™, and cheap games from Steam. No way Jose, that's not how things were done at the dawn of the millenium: getting your system to boot Linux was just the beginning of the adventure! But with Esware 365 installer, it was more like the beginning of your nightmares.

Bonus: If somehow you get yer' filthy hands on a Esware 365 ISO and try to get it working under a VM, get ready to extra fun. And by "fun", I mean "don't try this at home, kids. Seriously, DON'T!". These are my instructions for VirtualBox:

- Configure your VM with the oldest hardware you can choose... not that Esware will take any advantage of it. PIIX3/4 IDE controller is fine, forget about USB, PS/2 mouse is your only logical choice here, don't bother enabling sound since it won't work at all (Esware will detect AC'97 audio but will output nothing; it will fail to detect VirtualBox's SB16 card), and while any of the AMD NICs will get detected by Esware, none of them will actually work for whatever reason. At least it plays nice with the VESA emulation of VirtualBox.

- 128MB was overkill for a Linux distro back then, so go and use that. As for HDD, a 4GB should be more than enough. The installer silently failed with a 1GB disk (despite being more than enough to dump the base system image, with plenty of space to spare), but Your Mileage May (Greatly) Vary. Don't forget to add a floppy drive, as VirtualBox doesn't add one, and you WILL need it - keep reading!

- Mount your Esware ISO on the virtual CDROM drive, and try to boot. The kernel boots... and dies with a "cannot mount root filesystem, tried /dev/sdd" or some similar BS. This is because somehow whatever ancient SYSLINUX version on this CD doesn't play nice with the (much newer) VirtualBox PC BIOS - for whatever reason the initrd image already loaded on RAM gets "lost" when the control is passed over to the kernel, which can't found it anymore and instead tries to look for it at a hardcoded (non-existing) device path. The workaround is kinda lame: extract the initrd.img inside the boot-esware.img boot image on the root of the CDROM, rename it to initrd.img.gz (as it's actually gzipped and we need it uncompressed, but gunzip will bail out since the file doesn't have the expected file extension because Troo UNIX® Philosophy except when they're not), gunzip that, and mount the resulting initrd.img on your virtual floppy drive. Yes, it's a wacko 3MB "superfloppy". No, VirtualBox doesn't care, and neither does the kernel. You're not done yet! To boot, write any nonsense on the boot splash, hit ENTER, you will get an error message. This is what we want, so we can actually drop to a textmode prompt. The magical enchant is "linux initrd=/dev/fd0". At some point during boot, the kernel will ask you to insert your root floppy and press ENTER - just make sure you've mounted your initrd.img into your virtual floppy drive, and hit ENTER. Or don't bother, and go watch a porn or synthesize nitro compounds at home instead, rather than waste your time preserving this piece of turd.

- Mouse will stop working when you logout, just because.

Bonus 2:

tomman@himawari:/media/tomman/Esware GNU_Linux/Esware/instimage/var/www/html$ ls -l
total 23
drwxr-xr-x 12 tomman tomman 4096 oct 27  2001 en
drwxr-xr-x 12 tomman tomman 4096 nov 14  2001 es
drwxr-xr-x 12 tomman tomman 4096 oct 29  2001 gl
drwxr-xr-x  3 tomman tomman 2048 nov 29  2001 images
lrwxrwxrwx  1 tomman tomman   20 nov 18  2001 index.php -> seleccionaidioma.php
-rw-r--r--  1 tomman tomman  191 oct 10  2001 nadanegro.php
drwxr-xr-x  2 tomman tomman 2048 oct 29  2001 _notes
-rw-r--r--  1 tomman tomman 2418 oct 26  2001 seleccionaidioma.php
-rw-r--r--  1 tomman tomman 3157 oct 26  2001 seleccionaidioma.php.racista

tomman@himawari:/media/tomman/Esware GNU_Linux/Esware/instimage/var/www/html/es/fragmentacion$ ls -l
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 2558 oct 26  2001 ayuda.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 4504 nov 29  2001 centrofragmentaciondos.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 4316 oct 10  2001 centrofragmentaciondos.php-no_sergio
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 2594 oct 25  2001 centrofragmentacion.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  646 sep 25  2001 ercentro.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  417 sep  6  2001 estilos.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 1765 oct 23  2001 fragmentacion.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomman tomman 4096 oct 29  2001 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 2180 oct 24  2001 inferiorfragmentacion.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 6786 oct 25  2001 layerspablo.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  191 sep 17  2001 nadanegro.php
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomman tomman 6144 nov 30  2001 pablothings
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  831 sep 17  2001 superiorfragmentacion.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  498 oct 23  2001 tampax.php

tomman@himawari:/media/tomman/Esware GNU_Linux/Esware/instimage/var/www/cgi-bin$ ls -l
total 198
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman 14928 nov 25  2001 apocalipsis.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  4244 nov 25  2001 clases.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  3593 nov 25  2001 clases.pyc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  3694 nov 25  2001 deltoya.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman    17 nov 25  2001 esware.info
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman 73708 nov 24  2001 fdisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  5677 nov 25  2001 funciones2.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman 39225 nov 25  2001 funciones.pm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  4388 nov 25  2001 interpreta3.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1171 nov 25  2001 license
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  3470 nov 25  2001 loca.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman   254 nov 25  2001 lotes.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  2214 nov 25  2001 main-antes_de_sergio.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  1648 nov 25  2001 main.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman 12045 nov 25  2001 manual2.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  1368 nov 25  2001 manual.pl
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomman tomman  4096 oct 27  2001 nousados
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman   283 nov 24  2001 nuevo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  8188 nov 25  2001 procesa-antes-jorge.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  8486 nov 25  2001 procesa.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman   305 nov 25  2001 tampax.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman     2 nov 25  2001 user
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomman tomman  2316 nov 25  2001 users.pm
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman    19 oct 31  2001 VERSION



tomman@himawari:/media/tomman/Esware GNU_Linux/Esware/instimage/var/www/html/es/usuariosinternet$ ls -l
total 92
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1624 oct 28  2001 ayuda.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman   487 oct 16  2001 ayuda.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomman tomman  2048 oct  8  2001 borrar
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1895 nov 19  2001 centroadsl.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  4832 nov 19  2001 centroconfigusuarios.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  4948 nov 19  2001 centromodem-rdsi.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1993 nov 15  2001 centronada.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1084 oct  3  2001 centro.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1773 nov 19  2001 centrotipoconex.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 18494 oct  9  2001 centrousuariosinternet2.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman   540 nov 15  2001 centrousuariosinternet.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 18454 oct  8  2001 centrousuariosinternet.php.cookie
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman   417 sep 14  2001 estilos.css
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomman tomman  4096 sep 27  2001 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1589 oct 24  2001 inferiorusuariosinternet.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  3941 oct  8  2001 inferiorusuariosinternet.php.cookie
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1703 nov 19  2001 izdausuariosinternet.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman   191 sep 27  2001 nadanegro.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman   604 sep 24  2001 prueba.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman   866 oct 10  2001 superior.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  5220 nov 20  2001 tuputamadre.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  5166 oct 25  2001 tuputamadre.js_backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman  1388 nov 15  2001 usuariosinternet.php
drwxr-xr-x 5 tomman tomman  4096 oct 10  2001 vacup

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# LOCA.pl
#############################################################################
# These are the perl scripts that partition the hard disk(s) for the
# ESware GNU/Linux 365 installation tool. Feel free to submit any problem
# to bugs@esware.com or to do a collaboration.
#
# Copyright 2001 Pablo Iñigo <pablo@esware.com> and
# Jorge Gómez Arenas <syvic@esware.com>
#
# ESware Linux S.A.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
# option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
# Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#############################################################################

sub localiza
{
#Dado un disco y un mega de inicio devuelve el minor (identificador)
my ($D, $I) = @_;
my ($partedp, @discos,$l,$Minor, $Inicio, $Final, $Sys);
#print "\nLOCALIZA===========> D=$D, ID=$I";
$partedp= `parted -s $D p \| grep -v Partition \| grep -v Disk \| grep -v Flags \| grep -v exten`;
@discos=split ("\n", $partedp);
foreach $l (@discos)
{
($Minor, $Inicio, $Final, $Sys)= split (" ", $l);
$Inicio=~s/\..*//g;
#print "\n\tBuscamos que INICIO_PASADO($I) esté entre $Inicio+10 y $Final-10";
if ($I <= $Inicio+10 and $I >= $Inicio-10)
{
#print "\nEl minor $Minor es el que SI BUSCAMOS";
return $Minor;
}
else
{
#print "\n";
#print "\nEl minor $Minor no es el que BUSCAMOS";
}
# Para la primera particion
if ($I < 10 and $I >= 0)
{
#print "\n----------------------ENtra en la mierda esta: INIICO DADO = $I";
return $Minor
}
}
}

sub comprueba_tipo
{
my ($salida,$Minor, $Inicio, $Final, @tip,$miid,$ejecuta);
my ($DD, $II, $FF) = @_;
$salida = `parted -s $DD p \| grep exten`;
($Minor, $Inicio, $Final, @tip)= split (" ", $salida);
# Elegimos un mega del medio de la particion de la que deseamos conocer
# el tipo:
$MEDIO = ($FF + $II) / 2;
#print "\nLOCA: Medio de la particion = $MEDIO";

print "\n SI -$MEDIO- < -$Final- y -$MEDIO- > -$Inicio- ";
if ($MEDIO < $Final and $MEDIO > $Inicio)
{
#print "\nLOCA: Lógica";
# La partición a crear está dentro de una extendida. No problem
return "logical";
}
if (length ($Minor) < 1)
{
#print "\nLOCA: Primaria sin particion extendida";
# No existe partición extendida. No problemo
return "primary";
}
if ($MEDIO > $Final or $MEDIO < $Inicio)
{
#print "\nLOCA: Primaria con EXTENDIDA";
# La partición a crear está fuera de la extendida. No problemo
return "primary";
}
#print "\nMIerda, La partición está entre medias entre la extendida y espacio libre";
#Else
# Redimensionamos la partición extendida y acoplamos la partición
$miid = localiza($DD, $II);
#print "\nLOCA Llega aquí. Esto puede ser un fallo...";
$ejecuta ="parted -s $DD resize $miid $II " . int ($FF+1);
#print "\n$ejecuta";
#system ($ejecuta);
return "LoGiCal";
#return "MIERDA";
}

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

Typos, useless files, toilet humor, and more bugs than at Joe's Apartment inside of this fine piece of Spainard software engineering, because Your Mom™.

...I'm totally calling my next Javascript library "YourMomTampaxApocalypsisNow.js"

If you're wondering what happened to Esware: unsurprisingly, 365 was its doom, and while they managed to hang on for a while (switching to IT services and the like), they ended folding anyway. Their remnants were slurped by someone else (which most likely failed too), and they faded into obscurity.

But I'll keep this CD-ROM safe, if only for lulz, and its really weird disc case.

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Duck Penis	Posted on 19-07-04, 13:26 Hi.
Stirrer of Shit Post: #464 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1764 days Last view: 1762 days	`-rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 2418 oct 26 2001 seleccionaidioma.php -rw-r--r-- 1 tomman tomman 3157 oct 26 2001 seleccionaidioma.php.racista` So, uh, how do these two files differ? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.

Kawaoneechan	Posted on 19-07-04, 16:22 Hi.
Praise Celestia! Post: #290 of 599 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 196 days Last view: 6 hours	The other one's just shy of a kilobyte more racist? 🤷‍♀️

tomman

Posted on 19-07-04, 20:18

Dinosaur

Post: #421 of 1317
Since: 10-30-18

Last post: 5 hours
Last view: 4 hours

Posted by sureanem

-rw-r--r--  1 tomman tomman 2418 oct 26  2001 seleccionaidioma.php
-rw-r--r--  1 tomman tomman 3157 oct 26  2001 seleccionaidioma.php.racista

So, uh, how do these two files differ?

Apparently the "racist" version hides the Galician entry by default:

            <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
              <tr> 
                <td> 
                  <div align="center"><a href="es/centroportada.php" class="textotitular">Castellano 
                    - </a><a href="javascript:;" class="textotitular" onClick="MM_swapImage('enanillo','','es/images/galego.gif',1)">[+]</a></div>
                </td>
                <td> 
                  <div align="center"><a href="en/centroportada.php" class="textotitular">English</a></div>
                </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td align="center"><a href="gl/centroportada.php"><img src="es/images/enano.gif" width="71" height="10" name="enanillo" border="0"></a></td>
                <td> </td>
              </tr>
            </table>
            <br>

The regular one just shows all languages at once:

            <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
              <tr> 
                <td> 
                  <div align="center"><a href="es/centroportada.php" class="textotitular">Castellano</a></div>
                </td>
                <td> 
                  <div align="center"><a href="en/centroportada.php" class="textotitular">English</a></div>
                </td>
                <td> 
                  <div align="center"><a href="gl/centroportada.php" class="textotitular">Galego</a></div>
                </td>
              </tr>
            </table>

As a outsider, I don't get it. But when you consider how delicate have been relationships between Spainards and Galicians through history you may get it. Or not.

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CaptainJistuce

Posted on 19-07-04, 21:53

Custom title here

Post: #549 of 1164
Since: 10-30-18

Last post: 63 days
Last view: 21 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsdlNrLPxQ
Guy gets an old Macintosh 512 that doesn't work. Goes to open it for repair, notices it is strangely heavy. Opens it up and a bigass full-height 5.25" hard drive is staring him in the face from behind the case of this "unexpandable" "floppy-only" system.

Turns out the company that made this hard disk controller(called a Hyperdrive board, and I love the name) decided to give Steve Jobs the finger in the most blatant way possible(other than actually etching an illustration of the bird onto the board).
"You say your computer is unexpandable and unmodifiable? There's no expansion bus and it shall be thrown away when it ceases to meet our needs? Well, all the address and data lines end at the CPU, so we're just gonna clip a ribbon cable on top of it and MAKE an expansion bus for our hard disk controller. We think Wozniak would approve. Also, we're taping a fan into this air vent. It isn't even fanless anymore. "

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