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Votes: 43

Welcome Kuro5hin refugees!

Author:

Adam Rightmann

Topic:

Diaries

Posted:

Apr 09, 2002

Comments:

I have been told that your whinging, liberalist homepage has been having trouble lately, so I would like to extend a warm welcome to you all! I will even do the rare step of soliciting feedback from you, in the form of a poll.

More diaries by Adam Rightmann

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My sources have told me that the bastion of liberalist-technophilia, Kuro5hin, is down with severe server problems. I'm sure many of the frequenters of that blog are looking for a place to meet and chat, and I would like to offer Adequacy!

Now, if you wish to contribute a story here, please make it literate, controversial, and clearly thought out. Surely there must be some liberalists who can string a few sentences together to give a rationalization to their desire to hate God. There must be some sinners whoare willing to defend their fornicating in a well-written, coherent story.

Or course, if you can't do that, you can always write a diary.

	on that note... (5.00 / 1) (#1)
	by freshgroundpepper on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 12:35:25 PM PST

	Let me welcome all of the new visitors here with a link to an excellent essay that will help answer the question "Are You Adequate?".

	Thank you freshgroundpepper (none / 0) (#2)
	by Adam Rightmann on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 12:43:41 PM PST

	I hope that link will be sufficient warning to any Lunix hackers out there who would attempt to infiltrate Adequacy with hacker tools like ping, telnet, nmap and SATAN before attempting to launch a DOS (Disk Operating System) attack. A. Rightmann

	Yes! (none / 0) (#3)
	by budlite on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 12:46:47 PM PST

	The education system fails once more...

	I don't follow your comment (none / 0) (#4)
	by Adam Rightmann on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 12:54:20 PM PST

	Being a published computer book author (modesty forbids the Amazon link), I know of what I speak. I won't go into detail about what I posted (for while Adequacy is safely protected by propietary software, other sites are handicapped by running Open Sauce software and are vulnerable to hacker attacks), each of the hacker tools I mentioned are used to attack sites. Some are used to survey the site, others are used to find vulnerabilitles and others can take down a network. A. Rightmann

	None of those tools are necessary. (none / 0) (#6)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:02:01 PM PST

	A site of Lunix boxen running on peecee hardware is perfectly capable of repeatedly going down all by itself.

	Please keep adequacy clean (none / 0) (#11)
	by walwyn on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:28:13 PM PST

	Children browse this site.

	Y'know it's funny... (none / 0) (#16)
	by budlite on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 02:55:45 PM PST

	...that I see more reports of security holes in MS software than any other.

	That's because (none / 0) (#21)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 04:49:28 PM PST

	Microsoft is good enough to let users know when users are using their products incorrectly. Not only do open source products have lots of bugs, they try to hide these bugs from the users! Proof of this can be found <a href="http://slashdot.org">here</a>.

	good one (none / 0) (#19)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 03:41:10 PM PST

	Being a published computer book author (modesty forbids the Amazon link), I know of what I speak. Yes it's called "100 Calls to Tech Support: One Man's Month Long Journey Trying to Figure Out How to Turn the Damn Thing On". I won't go into detail about what I posted (for while Adequacy is safely protected by propietary software, other sites are handicapped by running Open Sauce software and are vulnerable to hacker attacks), each of the hacker tools I mentioned are used to attack sites. Yeah, yeah, I won't get into a big argument with this one. Let me just mention, FreeBSD, Apache, and SCOOP (which only runs on Unices). Your utter lack of knowledge is more than enough proof that you should be banned from the Internet. Next time I would suggest getting some real training rather than asking Yoshi.

	you're pretty smug for a simpleton (5.00 / 1) (#22)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 05:01:28 PM PST

	Adequacy runs on Windows 2000 Sun Server Edition on proprietary Sun hardware. Adequacy has a source license to MS Internet Information Server which the editors have exploited to return arbitrary HTTP headers and misdirect petty hacker criminals. It wouldnt work if the daft hackers werent so easily confused by their over self-estimable intelligence, but there you go, they are and it does. Hacker software running remotely, anti-hacker (proprietary) software running locally. No way! Software can do that? Get out of town! Why did you assume Adequacy cant write and run their own software? Is it because Adequacy is always up while Kuro5hinux always down?

	I don't know whether you actually believe that... (none / 0) (#23)
	by budlite on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 05:27:17 PM PST

	...but whether you do or you're trolling, either way you appear extremely stupid to me.

	sorry, cant talk now (none / 0) (#24)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 05:45:35 PM PST

	too busy scanning the internet for guarded, proprietary enhancements to server software. Wish me luck.

	Ah yes.... (none / 0) (#25)
	by budlite on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 05:56:41 PM PST

	...the ones that have security holes that you can't actually find.

	that would be your basic category error (none / 0) (#26)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 06:18:34 PM PST

	Do please concentrate on one subject at a time. You can guess by the vast size of the internet and my arduos task's regrettable lack of support in the hacker community that I wont have the precious time to engage amateurs and wannabe computer cognoscenti in idle chit-chat.

	you are wrong, NAWL (none / 0) (#28)
	by nathan on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 07:27:52 PM PST

	Don't you have some children to molest or something? Nathan -- Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

	My child, (none / 0) (#5)
	by tkatchev on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 12:54:37 PM PST

	I feel for you. Anything I can do to help? -- Peace and much love...

	Satan? (none / 0) (#30)
	by because it isnt on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 02:32:22 AM PST

	I understood that hackers used the other tools for their nefarious deeds, but I did not realise that they would stoop to summoning the Dark Lord himself for their foul purposes. Thank you for bringing this to light, Mr Rightmann. adequacy.org -- because it isn't

	What if (none / 0) (#7)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:02:55 PM PST

	a liberal did not "desire to hate God". Would this upset your worldview?

	liberal != liberalist (none / 0) (#8)
	by Adam Rightmann on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:06:59 PM PST

	I hope I got that computer jargon correct, it is hard to reach your aurdience sometimes. A liberal is not necessarily a liberalist, though there is a fair amount of overlap. A liberalist is the sort who believes in cultural relativism, that no culture is inherently superior to any other, the kind of slippery slope thinking that invariably leads to baby killing, birth control, heresy, gun control and other heinous behaviors that offend God. A. Rightmann

	Correction (none / 0) (#9)
	by theantix on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:17:36 PM PST

	As a trained computer professional, I must correct your computer jargon. Assuming you were trying to establish a reference to unequality, the title you are looking for was "liberal <> liberalist". Furthermore, the title should have been capitalized.

	I do find computer jargon ecumenical (4.00 / 1) (#10)
	by Adam Rightmann on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:21:31 PM PST

	what with all these geeks arguing about the correct language, be it C, Fortran,Pearl, Java or Visual Basic, and then arguing about the correct use of whitespace and bracket syntax. Working in such a fractured environment, it's no wonder that they take this same argumentative viewpoint when attempting to save their souls. A. Rightmann

	Sir, (none / 0) (#15)
	by jvance on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 02:29:25 PM PST

	as a trained Computer Scientist, I must correct your "professional" sloppiness. The symbol you are looking for is ¬. As in "Liberal ¬ Liberalist" Thank you. -- Adequacy has turned into a cesspool consisting of ... blubbering, superstitious fools arguing with smug, pseudointellectual assholes. -AR

	Wow. (none / 0) (#18)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 03:30:56 PM PST

	A <i>real</i> not symbol. How do you do that?

	Easy (none / 0) (#20)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 03:52:02 PM PST

	In HTML its & not ; (Minus the spaces. for some reason "& amp;not;" was cutting out the first amp and just ended up printing a ¬). On my keyboard is shift+the key to the left of 1 and above tab, the backtick key I believe its called. I think US keyboards have a tilde there though, so that last bit of advice is only good for GB varient keyboards. -- Nick false¬true

	okay (none / 0) (#12)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:39:31 PM PST

	That is a clever distinction. But disbelief != hate.

	And his contention is that it is. (none / 0) (#13)
	by gzt on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:47:13 PM PST

	Why else would one reject God's infinite love and mercy?

	Why (none / 0) (#14)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 01:54:55 PM PST

	do you hate me?

	you are wrong (none / 0) (#27)
	by nathan on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 07:26:31 PM PST

	Everyone knows God is there. The question is, do you jam your fingers in your ears, squeeze your eyes shut, and scream? Or do you do something about it? Nathan -- Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

	Do something about it. (3.00 / 1) (#29)
	by Anonymous Reader on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 11:06:10 PM PST

	You kill God, of course.

	Re: (none / 0) (#36)
	by tkatchev on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 11:01:52 PM PST

	It's been done before. You are not original. -- Peace and much love...

	Just insert (1.00 / 1) (#31)
	by Anonymous Reader on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 01:14:14 PM PST

	"not" between "is" and "there", and your comment works just as well for me. Though unlike yourself, I would not presume to know so much about you.

	oh heavens. (none / 0) (#33)
	by nathan on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 03:45:53 PM PST

	So, your entire life is utterly empty and meaningless? No, wait, I bet you're one of those hardy souls who 'create their own meaning.' Nathan -- Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

	again (none / 0) (#34)
	by Anonymous Reader on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 04:29:00 PM PST

	Why do you hate me?

	I don't (none / 0) (#35)
	by nathan on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 05:57:14 PM PST

	You are awfully dreary, though. Nathan -- Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

	whoosh (none / 0) (#37)
	by Anonymous Reader on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 11:37:26 PM PST

	So, ad hominem is all you folks know? Where do I sign up?

	Try the "Make New Account" link to your (none / 0) (#38)
	by jvance on Thu Apr 11th, 2002 at 12:14:18 AM PST

	you fucking moron. -- Adequacy has turned into a cesspool consisting of ... blubbering, superstitious fools arguing with smug, pseudointellectual assholes. -AR

	Hmm... (1.00 / 1) (#39)
	by Anonymous Reader on Thu Apr 11th, 2002 at 12:19:49 AM PST

	The Preview Comment didn't show my subject line as truncated. The parent post should read: "Try the 'Make New Account' link to your right, you fucking moron." Crap.

	It's the quotes. (none / 0) (#40)
	by Anonymous Reader on Thu Apr 11th, 2002 at 03:00:53 AM PST

	Double quotes get translated to '& quot;' or some such by scoop when a comment is posted. Unfortunately, the string-length checking code-bits aren't terribly sophisitacted, or the ampersand-escape parsing is lousy, or maybe they just don't allow any room for string expansion when stuffing CGI data into SQL. Not that it matters. You've learned your lesson: Don't use double quotes in the subject field.

	What's annoying (1.00 / 2) (#44)
	by Anonymous Reader on Thu Apr 11th, 2002 at 02:22:52 PM PST

	is that "preview comment" doesn't behave the same way. That implies different code is running to format the display for preview versus post. Which means it isn't really a preview. If I had time, I'd dive into Scoop and either a) fix the display bug, or b) move the display bug into preview (hack hack hack.) But PHP has warped my brain, and I may never be able to look at Perl again without hurling[1]. [1] implying motion sickness, not disgust.

	sigh (none / 0) (#41)
	by nathan on Thu Apr 11th, 2002 at 10:28:08 AM PST

	I was considering answering "because you're a mud-eating liberalist ass-clown," but I suddenly decided that joke wasn't funny any more. Nathan -- Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

	Nathan - this what I hate... (5.00 / 1) (#42)
	by walwyn on Thu Apr 11th, 2002 at 11:34:54 AM PST

	So, ad hominem is all you folks know? ...about the internet. Given a web browser and access to google, every one can pretend to be a logician.

	What's the matter? (none / 0) (#43)
	by Anonymous Reader on Thu Apr 11th, 2002 at 01:52:36 PM PST

	Is your vaunted education not giving you all the satisfaction that was advertised?

	Thanks for the welcome (5.00 / 1) (#17)
	by imrdkl on Tue Apr 9th, 2002 at 03:05:02 PM PST

	now how do I get on the frontpage?

	As a lay person... (none / 0) (#32)
	by JoePain on Wed Apr 10th, 2002 at 03:15:09 PM PST

	Isn't there a dozen ways to express inequality? I wrote a parser for a compiler once that used <> >< and != and =! to mean the same thing. (because i could) Plus there are a TON of math who use other strange symbols, not to mention the philosophers.

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