Linux was born out of a warm and fuzzy let's-work-together idealism that is typical of all open-source projects.
What about the hot and bothered let's-rip-his-spine-out-of-his-back and beat-him-with-it rage that is typical of all open-source developers when some -1 troll makes a kind comment about [insert closed-source platform here]?
Well, I wonder whether Wynn Quon prefers vi or emacs?
Oh the magnets are stuck to my desk. My 3 year old likes playing with them. I worry about is fingers, but he seems to know not to get them caught as the magnets fly on the metal;-) I looked at dansdata and got sidetracked for an hour or two, good site, thanks!
Stick it in the oven (not the microwave) on the higest temp for three hours, should demagnetize the platters nicely. If you want some fun, to complete the job, drop it in a bucket of cold water afterwards.
Out of curiosity I took failed drive apart to see what was inside, the platters make nice shiny toys, you could even use them as shuriken I suppose...
IBM could well have another hundred patents lined up to throw at SCO a few at a time when they need a laugh - this is Big Blue's opening shot. When IBM were fightin their anti-trust case they snowed the DoJ under a mountain of paperwork untul they gave up.
Acorn used to do a nice joystick where the stick gave control of the Z axis by rotating it. I know lots of current joysticks do something similar but this wasn't for games, it was a precision input device for CAD etc. IIRC it had a short stalk which rotated, mounted on a ball (like a largish trackball). It looked sort of like a safe tumbler dial mounted on a tennis ball in a neat housing. I think it had three buttons, which was common on BBC micro input devices (Acorn home computer, early 80s).
It would be easier to put the horizontal scroll wheel on the side for use with the thumb. Actually I doubt if there were two vertically oriented wheel that it would take long to get used to scrolling horizontally with the second wheel. Some apps use the existing wheel to scroll horizontally and it's not too hard to use.
Someone else can continue by forking the last GPLed version. If Novell now own the copyright on the code they can release only closed versions if they wish. They may GPL further developments if they want, but don't have to. I have no knowledge as to the actual ownership of the copyright, but if it was Ximians, it's now Novell's.
I agree on both main points - Boddingtons is naff and Pedigree is good, but better from Marston's is Merrie Monk - they called it a mild but it has so much flavour I don't care that it's not a bitter. Even better (my personal favourite when available) is Owd Roger (draught of course) - nectar. My friend went to the bar in the Sun in Holborn and ordered two pints and forestalled the barman by saying "Yes I know what it is, I know what it costs and I'd still like two pints please", of course we weren't saying anything very intelligible afterwards.(7.6% for the curious)
Other favourites include Wadsworths 6X, Gales 5X and HSB (known as 'brown sticky'). I haven't tried the Usher's version but I drank a lot of Gibb's Bishop's Tipple too. I quite like Speckled Hen too. Draught of course. It may be concluded by our friends in the North that I am a Southern Jessie, but I don't see the point in a head on beer - it should be nearly still with just a little head - that way you can get more beer in the glass.
The best regime seems to be moderate exercise (enough to raise pulse to fat burn/cardio border) for 30 mins a few times a week, combined with a few glasses of wine a day (or equivalent), and a balanced diet. By balanced diet I mean the usual low-fat low-salt low-sugar five portions of fruit/veg a day and reasonable carbs. And the single most important factor - don't smoke.
When I re-read my parent post (and yes I did preview) it isn't clear I was using hyperbole to make a point - I have no idea where most of GWBs contributions come from and less interest in googling for it. Re the BBC - the corporation was set up by statute (a law was passed) with a set of rules to follow and given certain rights - e.g. the License. The BBC was created by Act of Government but is not part of Government, there is no day to day involvement of Government in BBC function. The coming problem is that the BBC has irritated Tony Blair and his unelected Minister for Information (sorry 'special advisor') when the franchise is up for renewal - which is the only realistic time the Gov of the day gets to mess with the BBC, unless they get really annoyed and pass a new law. It may be unfamiliar to US readers, but the BBC is independent as far as is possible.
Claiming the BBC is part of Government is analagous to claiming that Ford and GM are part of the USGov because USGov builds the Interstates and regulates the use of autos.
It may be unlicensed but it's not unregulated - like cellphones you don't need a license but you have to obey the law regarding limits on the erp (effective radiated power) you can use.
My personal Dr Who rankings:
1 - Jon Pertwee (I like JP generally esp Navy Lark)
2 - Patrick Troughton
3 - Sylvester McCoy
4 - William Hartnell
5 - Peter Davidson
6 - Colin Baker
7 - Richard Hurndall
8 - Tom Baker
9 - Paul McGann (more like 10^6 than 9 really).
In the middle the order is not too definite, but the top and bottom are - sort of an inverted gaussian distributoi of strength of opinion,
Unfortunately the meaning appears to be changing, gidds and I (and probably others) are familiar with with the original usage and the new form grates. See The Skeptics Dictionary and The alt.usage.english Home Page for explanation of the original (and correct!) usage, while World Wide Words for a discussion on the changing meaning.
It's really fun to try and script mass file renames among other things
Install cygwin.
Assuming your machines are all networked and you are administrator for all of them you only need to install cygwin on your box, you can then do most things remotely, probably using the '$' shares. Learn how to use the 'net' and other commands, I have a script to create new folders, share them and then set share pemissions and folder security to allow a group to have access - then another sets up users as members of that group. You can do somethings reasonably easily from the CMD prompt, others from cygwin. It's worth finding the non-gui ways to set things up, where they exist.
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Can't see the point - I dipped into a collection of other stories by Donaldson and didn't like that either. There are plenty of books I haven't read that I want to, and will probably like, so I won't bother with the Unbeliever again. I had some friends at uni who went on at me so much about this series I ended up creating a monster in the AD&D games I was DMing and called it an Ur-Vile (not too many HD as they were all low-level). Whenever they wittered on about the books a pack of my Ur-Viles wold come along and beat them up:-) I suppose I should have had a high level npc mage called Pavlov to hammer the point home further but I didn't.
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2) Paradiso Street Station (just didn't ever engage my interest)
DUH!
That should be Perdido Street Station by China Mieville of course. Sorry.
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I quite liked it, but felt the last third went a little downhill. Actually I was waiting for Cthulhu to put in an appearance. I rarely fail to finish a book (well fiction, anyway), but I wasn't too sure about this at one point. A qualified 6/10 from me.
Thinking about it the only books I can remember deliberately abandoning are: 1) The first Thomas Covenenant (blecch!) 2) Paradiso Street Station (just didn't ever engage my interest) 3) Chasm City (got bored) 4) Anything by Dickens
One of the books I'm currently reading is Dawnthief, which started well but I'm halfway through and it's got a bit flat, but I'll probably persevere.
First off I shouldn't imagine for one moment that the videogames division would be the only one in which the various monopolies comissions would be taking a very close interest. Movies, cell phones, music And how long would it take them to investigate and deliberate a hostile takeover of this magnitude? Now compare this with the likely length of the court case.
Apart from anything else Sony could probably borrow a few $B from a big keiratsu if they wanted.
My favourite counter-attack would be to offer IBM a sweet deal on the DRM patents in retrunable for a nice loan. IT would be a good honest deal and a nice way for IBM to shaft Microsoft, whivh they might like. I can't remember the last hostile takeover of this size, if any, and I suspect that it would be a lot more trouble than we can think up easily.
Microsofts' supposed software patent portfolio isn't even any good to persuade Sony or Philips to lay off either - neither of them is an obvious software company, it's all firmware at best. Maybe that's a slight stretch with the PlayStation but I still think MS leverage against these two would be minimal.
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I thought they were playing Russian roulette with an automatic...
Oh the magnets are stuck to my desk. My 3 year old likes playing with them. I worry about is fingers, but he seems to know not to get them caught as the magnets fly on the metal ;-)
I looked at dansdata and got sidetracked for an hour or two, good site, thanks!
If you want some fun, to complete the job, drop it in a bucket of cold water afterwards.
Out of curiosity I took failed drive apart to see what was inside, the platters make nice shiny toys, you could even use them as shuriken I suppose...
IBM could well have another hundred patents lined up to throw at SCO a few at a time when they need a laugh - this is Big Blue's opening shot. When IBM were fightin their anti-trust case they snowed the DoJ under a mountain of paperwork untul they gave up.
Interesting, thanks. May the Schwartz be with you (I couldn't resist....)
Acorn used to do a nice joystick where the stick gave control of the Z axis by rotating it. I know lots of current joysticks do something similar but this wasn't for games, it was a precision input device for CAD etc. IIRC it had a short stalk which rotated, mounted on a ball (like a largish trackball). It looked sort of like a safe tumbler dial mounted on a tennis ball in a neat housing. I think it had three buttons, which was common on BBC micro input devices (Acorn home computer, early 80s).
It would be easier to put the horizontal scroll wheel on the side for use with the thumb.
Actually I doubt if there were two vertically oriented wheel that it would take long to get used to scrolling horizontally with the second wheel. Some apps use the existing wheel to scroll horizontally and it's not too hard to use.
Someone else can continue by forking the last GPLed version. If Novell now own the copyright on the code they can release only closed versions if they wish. They may GPL further developments if they want, but don't have to.
I have no knowledge as to the actual ownership of the copyright, but if it was Ximians, it's now Novell's.
Other favourites include Wadsworths 6X, Gales 5X and HSB (known as 'brown sticky'). I haven't tried the Usher's version but I drank a lot of Gibb's Bishop's Tipple too. I quite like Speckled Hen too. Draught of course.
It may be concluded by our friends in the North that I am a Southern Jessie, but I don't see the point in a head on beer - it should be nearly still with just a little head - that way you can get more beer in the glass.
The best regime seems to be moderate exercise (enough to raise pulse to fat burn/cardio border) for 30 mins a few times a week, combined with a few glasses of wine a day (or equivalent), and a balanced diet. By balanced diet I mean the usual low-fat low-salt low-sugar five portions of fruit/veg a day and reasonable carbs.
And the single most important factor - don't smoke .
Re the BBC - the corporation was set up by statute (a law was passed) with a set of rules to follow and given certain rights - e.g. the License. The BBC was created by Act of Government but is not part of Government, there is no day to day involvement of Government in BBC function.
The coming problem is that the BBC has irritated Tony Blair and his unelected Minister for Information (sorry 'special advisor') when the franchise is up for renewal - which is the only realistic time the Gov of the day gets to mess with the BBC, unless they get really annoyed and pass a new law.
It may be unfamiliar to US readers, but the BBC is independent as far as is possible.
Claiming the BBC is part of Government is analagous to claiming that Ford and GM are part of the USGov because USGov builds the Interstates and regulates the use of autos.
Like the lengths you go to deny the church and state are linked when most of GWBs campaign funds are form the Christian Right?
It may be unlicensed but it's not unregulated - like cellphones you don't need a license but you have to obey the law regarding limits on the erp (effective radiated power) you can use.
Radar detectors have been legal for a while in the UK, just don't take them to France on holiday.
If it's a Faraday cage why would it need to be grounded?
1 - Jon Pertwee (I like JP generally esp Navy Lark)
2 - Patrick Troughton
3 - Sylvester McCoy
4 - William Hartnell
5 - Peter Davidson
6 - Colin Baker
7 - Richard Hurndall
8 - Tom Baker
9 - Paul McGann (more like 10^6 than 9 really).
In the middle the order is not too definite, but the top and bottom are - sort of an inverted gaussian distributoi of strength of opinion,
Unfortunately the meaning appears to be changing, gidds and I (and probably others) are familiar with with the original usage and the new form grates. See The Skeptics Dictionary and The alt.usage.english Home Page for explanation of the original (and correct!) usage, while World Wide Words for a discussion on the changing meaning.
Assuming your machines are all networked and you are administrator for all of them you only need to install cygwin on your box, you can then do most things remotely, probably using the '$' shares.
Learn how to use the 'net' and other commands, I have a script to create new folders, share them and then set share pemissions and folder security to allow a group to have access - then another sets up users as members of that group. You can do somethings reasonably easily from the CMD prompt, others from cygwin. It's worth finding the non-gui ways to set things up, where they exist.
Can't see the point - I dipped into a collection of other stories by Donaldson and didn't like that either. There are plenty of books I haven't read that I want to, and will probably like, so I won't bother with the Unbeliever again. :-)
I had some friends at uni who went on at me so much about this series I ended up creating a monster in the AD&D games I was DMing and called it an Ur-Vile (not too many HD as they were all low-level). Whenever they wittered on about the books a pack of my Ur-Viles wold come along and beat them up
I suppose I should have had a high level npc mage called Pavlov to hammer the point home further but I didn't.
Sorry.
I rarely fail to finish a book (well fiction, anyway), but I wasn't too sure about this at one point. A qualified 6/10 from me.
Thinking about it the only books I can remember deliberately abandoning are :
1) The first Thomas Covenenant (blecch!)
2) Paradiso Street Station (just didn't ever engage my interest)
3) Chasm City (got bored)
4) Anything by Dickens
One of the books I'm currently reading is Dawnthief, which started well but I'm halfway through and it's got a bit flat, but I'll probably persevere.
First off I shouldn't imagine for one moment that the videogames division would be the only one in which the various monopolies comissions would be taking a very close interest. Movies, cell phones, music
And how long would it take them to investigate and deliberate a hostile takeover of this magnitude? Now compare this with the likely length of the court case.
Apart from anything else Sony could probably borrow a few $B from a big keiratsu if they wanted.
My favourite counter-attack would be to offer IBM a sweet deal on the DRM patents in retrunable for a nice loan. IT would be a good honest deal and a nice way for IBM to shaft Microsoft, whivh they might like.
I can't remember the last hostile takeover of this size, if any, and I suspect that it would be a lot more trouble than we can think up easily.
Microsofts' supposed software patent portfolio isn't even any good to persuade Sony or Philips to lay off either - neither of them is an obvious software company, it's all firmware at best. Maybe that's a slight stretch with the PlayStation but I still think MS leverage against these two would be minimal.