Well, you know, the difference between Bill Gates and the goatse.cx guy... one is a giant asshole, well-known and feared by many, and the other one is just a regular guy with a personal website for himself...
someone will explain to you the difference between the chemical and biological processes required to form a potato, and the difference between that and the sort of chemical processes that would be required to *create* gold.
I guess that was my original point, that this isn't spontaneous generation, or any number of other things... just accretion.
Although some of this does sound overbroad, at least having less drivers using cellphones (especially while driving) is not necessarily such a bad thing, IMO.
Actually, they should just enact a law that states that while driving a car, your attention should be focused on (duh!) *driving the car*, and if you weren't, and you get in an accident, then you should be held responsible for your negligence.
The machine benchmarked was not the same as the machine configured... or as the review itself says, "as long as you don't buy it [the RAM] from The Apple Store". Considering that this came after he just got done explaining why he didn't assemble the PC piecemeal, I consider it to be quite deceptive.
Ahh, how could I forget my C64, with its amazing games, video, sound... no, really, it took the PC industry years to catch up.
And as for Windows, that literally took a decade to catch up--we had GEOS, which was technically superior in every way until perhaps Windows 3.0 came out. (and even then, it was still far smaller and more efficient)
That's a fascinating bit of information about Jefferson--by his reasoning, copyright terms today would still be no longer than 35 years or so, just based on our current life expectancies, and that the world belongs to the living, and not to the dead.
Sorry you're dead, Thomas Jefferson; we could have used your help on this one.
Too bad that statement is at best misleading and at worst entirely false... note the "over the 20 years" part--the Founding Fathers never intended copyrights to last as long as they do now; it was supposed to be a limited grant, limited as in less than 30 years (and even that, only after an extension, for which the original copyright holder would still have to be alive).
Groklaw is being generously hosted by ibiblio... that being said, it'd be nice if/. did something to help out with how they crush people's bandwidth, but in fact they don't want to take responsibility for anything of the sort... which is why some websites who *do* have to worry about paying for bandwidth have redirected incoming visitors from/. in the past...
What problems do we have with long-distance space travel, again? I mean, besides the fact that we have no reason to send people long distances through space at the moment?
I mean, really, if your mission is colonization, why can't you breed on board the ship in the first place. Obviously you'd want to be as self-sufficient as possible, and you'd also want to be ready for your mission. That would imply that you'd want to practice your farming skills and keep people sharp and whatnot.
As for the hibernation, maybe it could save on supplies, but it wouldn't increase your lifespan, and you can only go so far in 50 years of space travel with our current technology.
No thanks... I'd love to see missions like this one day, but only once we have a good place to go, or a really good reason to leave. If just I wanted to send people to their deaths, I could push for the re-instatement of the (active) draft; it would be quicker and cheaper.
Way to miss the point, my friend. Which is, looking answers up on the web is a perfectly sane approach to take, so it's odd that someone would feel comfortable doing so in Windows, and yet, not in Linux....that is to say, unless he mastered Windows and MS-DOS solely through reading computer books, at which point someone should tell him about this "internet" thing.
Yawn. Nothing to see here, you can crawl back under your bridge now.
So tell me, what do you do when something goes wrong in Windows? Reinstall? Windows update? Run defrag? Look on the web for an answer?
Anyhow, there are HOWTOs on this sort of thing, and books as well, although I must say that "Linux in a Nutshell" is a very good introductory Linux book.
However, if you're a Windows and MS-DOS Expert and you Know What You're Doing(tm), then you should have no problems learning Linux. First, familiarize yourself with the commands and software packages that you have available; then, run from there! Most distributions have decent graphical help systems and package managers nowadays, and even if they don't, there's always man and man -k.:)
As to the rest, there's really no replacement for some good old Unix books, or for having a Unix wizard around. They can explain to you why "echo *" doesn't work the same way in Unix (the shell expands the *), and how you'd go about performing tasks by stringing commands together...
How many reboots have there been: last | grep ^"reboot " | wc -l
Who logs in the most: last | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
On what day of the week have you logged in the most: last | grep ^`whoami` | cut -c 40-43 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
What file types are the most common: find -type f -exec file -i {} \; | cut -d : -f 2- | cut -d , -f 1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
Slashdot Mirror
It probably is
three syllables long, in fact,
like a warm spring breeze.
I mean, I wrote this song, but you don't see me standing up and pontificating, saying that it's now part of "the folklore of the Internet"...
Well, you know, the difference between Bill Gates and the goatse.cx guy... one is a giant asshole, well-known and feared by many, and the other one is just a regular guy with a personal website for himself...
...note that slashdot doesn't allow them either, and for similar reasons. :)
http://goatse.cx%01%00@microsoft.com/ <-- I wonder why?
someone will explain to you the difference between the chemical and biological processes required to form a potato, and the difference between that and the sort of chemical processes that would be required to *create* gold.
I guess that was my original point, that this isn't spontaneous generation, or any number of other things... just accretion.
No, they don't really grow gold, they just sort of extract it and move it around. Unlike growing a potato.
You *are* pretty old for someone with a 4-digit uid! :)
I wonder if you could use this for a PVR too; Apex also makes one of those now.
Just get me one of these with a larger hard drive, and I'd be set...
Stac Electronics v. Microsoft
Hey, that's fine with me, as long as you aren't actually moving...
Although some of this does sound overbroad, at least having less drivers using cellphones (especially while driving) is not necessarily such a bad thing, IMO.
Actually, they should just enact a law that states that while driving a car, your attention should be focused on (duh!) *driving the car*, and if you weren't, and you get in an accident, then you should be held responsible for your negligence.
Way to go, guys; the comparative newcomer that I use (Gentoo) is only up to 7,167 or so packages!
The machine benchmarked was not the same as the machine configured... or as the review itself says, "as long as you don't buy it [the RAM] from The Apple Store". Considering that this came after he just got done explaining why he didn't assemble the PC piecemeal, I consider it to be quite deceptive.
Ahh, how could I forget my C64, with its amazing games, video, sound... no, really, it took the PC industry years to catch up.
And as for Windows, that literally took a decade to catch up--we had GEOS, which was technically superior in every way until perhaps Windows 3.0 came out. (and even then, it was still far smaller and more efficient)
That's a fascinating bit of information about Jefferson--by his reasoning, copyright terms today would still be no longer than 35 years or so, just based on our current life expectancies, and that the world belongs to the living, and not to the dead.
Sorry you're dead, Thomas Jefferson; we could have used your help on this one.
Too bad that statement is at best misleading and at worst entirely false... note the "over the 20 years" part--the Founding Fathers never intended copyrights to last as long as they do now; it was supposed to be a limited grant, limited as in less than 30 years (and even that, only after an extension, for which the original copyright holder would still have to be alive).
Groklaw is being generously hosted by ibiblio... that being said, it'd be nice if /. did something to help out with how they crush people's bandwidth, but in fact they don't want to take responsibility for anything of the sort... which is why some websites who *do* have to worry about paying for bandwidth have redirected incoming visitors from /. in the past...
Lindows is a distribution built on top of Linux, and the X Window System.
<Lindows> You probably think this song is about you, don't you...
That's a sensitive government document you're linking to there; please send me at least $70,000 and I'll promise not to tell. :)
What problems do we have with long-distance space travel, again? I mean, besides the fact that we have no reason to send people long distances through space at the moment?
I mean, really, if your mission is colonization, why can't you breed on board the ship in the first place. Obviously you'd want to be as self-sufficient as possible, and you'd also want to be ready for your mission. That would imply that you'd want to practice your farming skills and keep people sharp and whatnot.
As for the hibernation, maybe it could save on supplies, but it wouldn't increase your lifespan, and you can only go so far in 50 years of space travel with our current technology.
No thanks... I'd love to see missions like this one day, but only once we have a good place to go, or a really good reason to leave. If just I wanted to send people to their deaths, I could push for the re-instatement of the (active) draft; it would be quicker and cheaper.
Way to miss the point, my friend. Which is, looking answers up on the web is a perfectly sane approach to take, so it's odd that someone would feel comfortable doing so in Windows, and yet, not in Linux. ...that is to say, unless he mastered Windows and MS-DOS solely through reading computer books, at which point someone should tell him about this "internet" thing.
Yawn. Nothing to see here, you can crawl back under your bridge now.
Maybe you should go help them out--SCO can only manage to fit about 20,000 pages on a CD.
.TIFF files sure do take up a lot of space!
What can I say, those
(I honestly wish I was kidding here, but I'm not. Mmm-hmm. TIFF files. Of source code. Yup.)
So tell me, what do you do when something goes wrong in Windows? Reinstall? Windows update? Run defrag? Look on the web for an answer?
:)
Anyhow, there are HOWTOs on this sort of thing, and books as well, although I must say that "Linux in a Nutshell" is a very good introductory Linux book.
However, if you're a Windows and MS-DOS Expert and you Know What You're Doing(tm), then you should have no problems learning Linux. First, familiarize yourself with the commands and software packages that you have available; then, run from there! Most distributions have decent graphical help systems and package managers nowadays, and even if they don't, there's always man and man -k.
As to the rest, there's really no replacement for some good old Unix books, or for having a Unix wizard around. They can explain to you why "echo *" doesn't work the same way in Unix (the shell expands the *), and how you'd go about performing tasks by stringing commands together...
How many reboots have there been:
last | grep ^"reboot " | wc -l
Who logs in the most:
last | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
On what day of the week have you logged in the most:
last | grep ^`whoami` | cut -c 40-43 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
What file types are the most common:
find -type f -exec file -i {} \; | cut -d : -f 2- | cut -d , -f 1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
etc., etc.
Hiding secrets with steganography on Windows, Red Hat, SuSE, and... oh yeah, FreeBSD...
When I got my NES (1987?)... Super Mario Bros., Zelda I... how could you possibly beat that? :)