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Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved
Walter Vos writes "Since I've been running Vista and Ubuntu in dual boot with a shared FAT32 partition for my personal folders, I've been seeing some strange compatibility issues between these two operating systems. Somehow Vista locks the folders on the FAT32 partition that are used for folders like Documents, Downloads, etc. A blogpost I wrote gives a detailed description of the problem and a fix for it."
My grandmother had a saying: 'blue and green should never be seen.' That's really all I have to say on the design of that blog.
that is all. nothing to see here, move along please, thank you...
Anybody want my mod points?
I want to make it perfectly clear what I do not intend to do in this letter before I carry on with what I do wish to accomplish with it. In the first place, if Twitter honestly believes that some of my points are not valid, I would love to get some specific feedback from him. To those adversarial hermits who think that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive, know this: Twitter is guilty of at least one criminal offense. In addition, he frequently exhibits less formal criminal behavior such as deliberate and even gleeful cruelty, explosive behavior, and a burning desire to exercise control through indirect coercion or through psychological pressure or manipulation. He is not interested in what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to him whatsoever. The only thing that has any meaning to Twitter is narcissism. Why? To turn that question around, whatever happened to Twitter's sense of humanity? The most appealing theory has to do with the way that Twitter seizes every opportunity to poke someone's eyes out. I cannot believe this colossal clownishness. Any sane person knows that if Twitter wanted to, he could threaten national security. He could turn a deaf ear to need and suffering. And he could rot out the foundations of our religious, moral, and political values. We must not allow Twitter to do any of these.
Twitter promises that if we give him and his provocateurs additional powers, he'll guard us from ill-natured nitwits. My question, however is, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Who will guard the guards? Since I don't know him that well, I'll have to be a bit presumptuous when I say that Twitter's contemptible quips instill distrust and thereby create a need for his contemptuous views. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to mention a bit about gormless dopeheads such as Twitter. His skills are generally used to exploit, abuse, and exert power. That concept can be extended, mutatis mutandis, to the way that Twitter is typical of argumentative gasbags in his wild invocations to the irrational, the magic, and the fantastic to dramatize his views.
Many people are convinced that the most significant aspect of Twitter's mentality and its lack of refinement is the closeness of Twitter's way of thinking in general to the way that the most sick yokels you'll ever see think in particular. I can't comment on that but I can say that as he matures emotionally he'll eventually grow out of his present way of thinking and come to realize that I welcome his comments. However, he needs to realize that I could go on for pages listing innumerable examples of his slaphappy announcements and featherbrained zingers. I have already written enough, surely, to convince you that we can divide Twitter's metanarratives into three categories: empty-headed, uncivilized, and deceitful. When one looks at the increasing influence of fanaticism in our culture one sees that Twitter's signature is on everything. So how come his fingerprints are nowhere to be found? The answer is obvious if you understand that Twitter would have us believe that he can make all of our problems go away merely by sprinkling some sort of magic, pink, pixie dust over everything that he considers wayward or vitriolic. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that completely nettlesome claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I think it would be more accurate for Twitter to say that the real question here is not, "Why does he insist on boring holes in the hull of the boat in which he himself is also a passenger?". The real question is rather, "How long shall there continue short-sighted dummkopfs to vend and gloomy spouters to gulp so low a piece of McCarthyism as his perorations?" This is not a question that we should run away from. Rather, it is something that needs to be addressed quickly and directly because if I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less repugnant than Twitter. To recap th
No, that would be bisexual. Dumbass.
that's it, i'm outa here. of all the years i stood by slashdot, this post just did it for me.
good bye news for non nerds
good bye dupes
good bye first posts
good bye trolls
good bye horrible commenting system and the stupid slider
it is me