It looks and feels like something from microsoft.

Or Apple. I'm forced to keep a Mac. It has "launchd" and I freaking hate it with a passion. Especially because it subsumed cron. Now, in order to schedule jobs, you have to write lines upon lines of fucking XML. No way.

I run Slackware 14.0 (the one before the latest) and it provides KDE4, not KDE3. In my experience Slackware doesn't generally prefer older software. In fact, it's usually very up to date.

Thank you!

Slackware, through Pat, has stated that they will hold out until it is no longer feasible

Do you have a link for this?

BBC News, tech section
Although I usually hang at the Sci/Environment and Health sections.

Gopher: content without the web's B.S.
Hi-Fi sets: you actually sat down in front of one and just listened to music

Reading my own post, I realize there is a common theme in the 2 technologies. Back in the day, content was king. Nowadays, content is just background noise. The mindless and fragmentary way we consume it reveals that it's completely devalued.

If only they adjusted the exposure a bit...
I would probably spend way too much time watching the show.

I hope you're right, in the interest of platform diversity.

I really liked the wordplay about the pipe being "without the slant" (as opposed to a slash). That element gets lost in the new logo.

To not leave all the fun to [ba]sh users, here's the same test in [t]csh:

(ssh -G |& grep -e illegal -e unknown >/dev/null)&&echo "System clean"||echo "System infected"

I seem to remember that, (many?) years ago, /. itself was mirrored on Usenet. Maybe it even had its own hierarchy, I'm not sure.