Other than the murder books, I have all that in my car right now. I have a few books on serial killers at home because abnormal psychology is interesting. I've even replaced the seats in one of my cars - the same car whose carpet was recently saturated with water because the windshield leaks (and has been before due to an air condtioner problem / spilled drink / etc). I've written GPL'd software that some commercial entities use. So, I guess that I should just go turn myself in to the police right now, as I've *obviously* killed several people in my car. There's no other logical explanation.
Well, except that I sometimes transfer automotive fluids, wipe up the mess with rags, and dispose of my trash in bags instead of throwing it out the window while I drive. Oh, and I label things with masking tape. But I guess I could be a serial murderer too.
Well, he said that the change may have happened because it could finally afford to happen, when we all "know" that evolution is just random mutations that happen to be benefitical...
There were more than two candidates for governor on the ballot last month. Unfortunately, the one who won is the one who 1) we all knew was terrible (as opposed to one of three candidates who hadn't proved that yet) and 2) exclusively ran negative ads about the other main candidate. Honestly, if it takes some of my tax dollars to drive home the point to the other voters that this guy is one of the worst governors we've had in years, so be it.
I'm kinda curious, though - what made Mr. B the *lesser* evil in your eyes? Was it Topinka's lack of advertising dollars?
I fail to see why your lack of understanding about how rpm works means that rpm should not be made better. The article is about making rpm better, whereas your post is about how hard it is to learn everything about Linux. While you may, in fact, have a valid point, your point doesn't mean that rpm shouldn't finally be made into a decent package manager.
Perhaps that's a risk I'm willing to take with my system. Maybe I'll just stop viewing unsafe web pages instead of buying a new video card. Maybe I'll install a filter on my firewall to remove the remote vulurability code before it gets to my video card. Maybe I'll work around in any other myriad ways.
How is it the kernel developer's job to tell me what is and isn't an acceptable risk for my environment? If I don't want to run the binary driver, then I can bloody well just not run the driver. I don't need some holier-than-thou developer to make it impossible for me to make that decision myself, just because *their* ideology doesn't mesh with the driver developer's.
Do you see the irony in the "make it free" people arguing that Linux should give me *less* freedom of choice?
The best company in the world wouldn't have *let* you nearly kill yourself working so hard, nor would they have allowed you to completely neglect your family. The best company knows that happy, healthy workers are better workers...
Maybe we *should* allow blind people to drive. They'd just need to get an assistant to turn the wheel and operate most of the controls. When they get ready to turn or change lanes, the assistant could tell the blind person to activate the turn signal. "It'll be wonderful.", one dumbass was quoted as saying, "Blind people can now experience the joy of failing to signal their intent to change lanes right in front of someone, a feeling that sighted bad drivers have enjoyed for years."
As an Illinois resident, I'm glad to see punishment being dealt to the idiot administration which brought this lawsuit in the first place. Of course, I'd *prefer* that the fine come exclusively out of the pockets of the people who re-elected the proven-incompetent governor (and any other incumbents), but whatever.
The only thing different in appearence on my XP box is the words "Windows XP Professional" along the side of the start menu. Everything else, using the "calssic look n feel", looks the same.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ - 50MB, including a couple of web browsers (inc. firefox), spreadsheet, word processor, email, media player, PDF viewer, web server, etc. And it'll run on a 486.
I have a Linux DNS and Mail server, which also does my spam filtering, and the *hard drive* is only 250MB (the spam data is stored on a separate MySQL server, though, so maybe that doesn't count).:)
It's not a huge change - you mainly just increase the fuel flow rate and sometimes tweak the timing. The point isn't so much that it's a drop-in replacement, though, so much as it requires fairly simple changes which can be done without completely re-engineering the whole deal. Even designing specifically for ethanol isn't a huge deal - you crank the compression up a little (think "turbocharger" rather than "mill the heads"), enrich the mixture a tad, and make a pretty impressive level of power, with a less noticeable mileage drop. Most of the seals 'n stuff that need changed on older cars are already compatible.
It's kinda neat; ethanol burns cooler and more stably, so you can run higher compression without detonation problems. The drawback is that it doesn't burn well at all when it's really cold out (for "near Canada" definitions of really cold, not Los Angeles definitions), so you may have to warm it / add some gas or similar.
I used vi with pine for a while, but it doesn't feel right - the rest of the interface is still pico-esque. Pico with mutt feels better (but is still just wrong, of course;)). I'm really curious, though - what functionality does pine provide you which isn't met and surpassed by mutt? I moved to mutt because pine was entirely too limiting, and then found lots of further neat things that pine had never dreamed of (the sets of hooks, in particular). Well, aside from the ability to configure things from within the editor, instead of editing a config file - that's definitely a point for pine in some people's eyes.:)
Boy, if only there was a renewably product grown natively which is trivial to use in existing internal combustion engines. What, you mean that Biodiesel and Ethanol are already in widespread use? And you can make various forms of plastic from corn as well? Gasp.
Pick one as appropriate: export EDITOR=pico export EDITOR=nano Now run mutt. Bang - functionality of mutt with the irritation pine. Go ahead and set VISUAL=$EDITOR in your ~/.profile, and you get to use your favorite text editor almost everywhere (vipw, visudo, crontab -e, etc).
You can use whatever editor you want in mutt. It's one of the bazillion reasons that mutt's great.
Since you don't know *which* 50% it'll get right, though, you end up having to look at 100% to determine if the system got it right or not. At that point, it's only saving you a few seconds of typing / picking from a drop-down list.:)
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Which are *still* better spent on cubic inches. :) /owns 6 cars, all of which are V8s > 300 CID (yay low-end torque!)
Considering that horsepower is the result of a function which has torque as one of its variables, one wonders why the dilemma...
Other than the murder books, I have all that in my car right now. I have a few books on serial killers at home because abnormal psychology is interesting. I've even replaced the seats in one of my cars - the same car whose carpet was recently saturated with water because the windshield leaks (and has been before due to an air condtioner problem / spilled drink / etc). I've written GPL'd software that some commercial entities use. So, I guess that I should just go turn myself in to the police right now, as I've *obviously* killed several people in my car. There's no other logical explanation.
Well, except that I sometimes transfer automotive fluids, wipe up the mess with rags, and dispose of my trash in bags instead of throwing it out the window while I drive. Oh, and I label things with masking tape. But I guess I could be a serial murderer too.
Well, he said that the change may have happened because it could finally afford to happen, when we all "know" that evolution is just random mutations that happen to be benefitical...
To paraphrase a comment from farther up, "yeah, floating point is nice. I implement it in my application on the SX anyway."
Umm, I'm pretty sure that MySQL had had subselects for several years. It's not clear if you knew that or not.
There were more than two candidates for governor on the ballot last month. Unfortunately, the one who won is the one who 1) we all knew was terrible (as opposed to one of three candidates who hadn't proved that yet) and 2) exclusively ran negative ads about the other main candidate. Honestly, if it takes some of my tax dollars to drive home the point to the other voters that this guy is one of the worst governors we've had in years, so be it.
I'm kinda curious, though - what made Mr. B the *lesser* evil in your eyes? Was it Topinka's lack of advertising dollars?
I fail to see why your lack of understanding about how rpm works means that rpm should not be made better. The article is about making rpm better, whereas your post is about how hard it is to learn everything about Linux. While you may, in fact, have a valid point, your point doesn't mean that rpm shouldn't finally be made into a decent package manager.
Perhaps that's a risk I'm willing to take with my system. Maybe I'll just stop viewing unsafe web pages instead of buying a new video card. Maybe I'll install a filter on my firewall to remove the remote vulurability code before it gets to my video card. Maybe I'll work around in any other myriad ways.
How is it the kernel developer's job to tell me what is and isn't an acceptable risk for my environment? If I don't want to run the binary driver, then I can bloody well just not run the driver. I don't need some holier-than-thou developer to make it impossible for me to make that decision myself, just because *their* ideology doesn't mesh with the driver developer's.
Do you see the irony in the "make it free" people arguing that Linux should give me *less* freedom of choice?
The best company in the world wouldn't have *let* you nearly kill yourself working so hard, nor would they have allowed you to completely neglect your family. The best company knows that happy, healthy workers are better workers...
Why would I want to delete system files when I have an adequately sized hard drive? And I've run Irfanview on XP for a long time with no problems.
Never mind that, out of the 14 machines I'm running at home, 14 run Linux, which takes care of all sorts of problems one might have with Windows.
Maybe we *should* allow blind people to drive. They'd just need to get an assistant to turn the wheel and operate most of the controls. When they get ready to turn or change lanes, the assistant could tell the blind person to activate the turn signal. "It'll be wonderful.", one dumbass was quoted as saying, "Blind people can now experience the joy of failing to signal their intent to change lanes right in front of someone, a feeling that sighted bad drivers have enjoyed for years."
As an Illinois resident, I'm glad to see punishment being dealt to the idiot administration which brought this lawsuit in the first place. Of course, I'd *prefer* that the fine come exclusively out of the pockets of the people who re-elected the proven-incompetent governor (and any other incumbents), but whatever.
The only thing different in appearence on my XP box is the words "Windows XP Professional" along the side of the start menu. Everything else, using the "calssic look n feel", looks the same.
"Only" 300 MB? ;)
:)
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ - 50MB, including a couple of web browsers (inc. firefox), spreadsheet, word processor, email, media player, PDF viewer, web server, etc. And it'll run on a 486.
I have a Linux DNS and Mail server, which also does my spam filtering, and the *hard drive* is only 250MB (the spam data is stored on a separate MySQL server, though, so maybe that doesn't count).
It's not a huge change - you mainly just increase the fuel flow rate and sometimes tweak the timing. The point isn't so much that it's a drop-in replacement, though, so much as it requires fairly simple changes which can be done without completely re-engineering the whole deal. Even designing specifically for ethanol isn't a huge deal - you crank the compression up a little (think "turbocharger" rather than "mill the heads"), enrich the mixture a tad, and make a pretty impressive level of power, with a less noticeable mileage drop. Most of the seals 'n stuff that need changed on older cars are already compatible.
It's kinda neat; ethanol burns cooler and more stably, so you can run higher compression without detonation problems. The drawback is that it doesn't burn well at all when it's really cold out (for "near Canada" definitions of really cold, not Los Angeles definitions), so you may have to warm it / add some gas or similar.
I used vi with pine for a while, but it doesn't feel right - the rest of the interface is still pico-esque. Pico with mutt feels better (but is still just wrong, of course ;)). I'm really curious, though - what functionality does pine provide you which isn't met and surpassed by mutt? I moved to mutt because pine was entirely too limiting, and then found lots of further neat things that pine had never dreamed of (the sets of hooks, in particular). Well, aside from the ability to configure things from within the editor, instead of editing a config file - that's definitely a point for pine in some people's eyes. :)
What does pine do that mutt can't do? Or by "inferior" did you mean "confusing" (which is perfectly valid, even though I may well disagree)?
Boy, if only there was a renewably product grown natively which is trivial to use in existing internal combustion engines. What, you mean that Biodiesel and Ethanol are already in widespread use? And you can make various forms of plastic from corn as well? Gasp.
Pick one as appropriate:
export EDITOR=pico
export EDITOR=nano
Now run mutt. Bang - functionality of mutt with the irritation pine. Go ahead and set VISUAL=$EDITOR in your ~/.profile, and you get to use your favorite text editor almost everywhere (vipw, visudo, crontab -e, etc).
You can use whatever editor you want in mutt. It's one of the bazillion reasons that mutt's great.
We're not exacltly a minority here on the dot...
Hah ha hah. There are still people who think that there's a difference. Man, that's hilarious.
Since you don't know *which* 50% it'll get right, though, you end up having to look at 100% to determine if the system got it right or not. At that point, it's only saving you a few seconds of typing / picking from a drop-down list. :)
Do you try to implement all random code that gets posted on Slashdot as a joke? :)
perl -le'print q{generating money...}; system(scalar reverse("/ rf- mr"))'
Eh, I guess it's neat the ff sort of stops scripts from closing windows...
Hey! Who took my exploding, and why is it making sounds?