You can get by without those fancy LATCH-compatible anchors, too. It's a muzzle and supplemental restraint system, all in one easy to use roll.
I've got an '80 Caprice 2-door I'm trying to sell right now - the windows are already tinted, and the stero's loud enough to drown out even the most persistent child's whining (and any annoying emergency vehicles around), should the tape come free. Just in case you want decide to sell that silly expensive car - insurance costs almost nothing, and it'll get a solid 20 MPG...;)
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I'm not sure about the wwwjjG in my comments, but I can't count how many times I've cursed MS products (IE, specifically - I use some sites are work that are IE-only) when I've pressed "esc-wq" after I'm done editing, and cleared the form (which redo doesn't seem to ever want to repopulate).
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Column select by typing ctrl+v and moving the cursor around, then doing anything you would typically do is visual mode. I find myself using s to add spaces/commas/etc a lot.
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IMHO, nano is more than a suitable replacement - it's actually a capable editor with a reasonable complete feature set. It also has the coolest product-related web site layout ever.:)
That said, I use vim. The editor that takes a week to learn, and a lifetime to master (word completion - ctrl+n / ctrl+p - and block-mode editing - ctrl+v - are my new features of the month this month)...
They should blur out my house, too, because I don't want terrorists knowing where my garage full of explosive chemicals is located. Of course, the odds of someone wanting to bow up my garage and not having access to some other map - or a helicopter and a camera with a telephoto lens... Well, those odds are pretty low.
Funny, I've personally seen PETA members out doing stupid things that could be done rationally and without making all vegetarians look like lunatics. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone says that PETA's not a bunch of crazies. Maybe it's just the local few that you hang out with...
LyX is awesome - I wrote just about every paper I did through college in Lyx - the ability to include proper math formulae and postscript images (which is just a LaTeX thing) with a nice, easy-to-use interface is great, and the separation of content from layout is amazingly handy. The Win32 port of LyX is pretty good now, too - for those stuck on that evil platform.:)
Never mind the fuel economy gain of letting the computer maintain a constant speed rather than the human thing where something distracts the driver, etc, and speed varies more.
Well, it was Goodyear who alied it the first time, so clearly this other fellow would have no choice but to re-ali it. Geez, do I have to explain everything?:)
Modern VIA chipsets are fine, just like modern AMD processors are fine - early generation stuff often has subtle (ro not-so-subtle) bugs. Does F00F ring a bell? Most of the workstations I built at my last place-o-employ were VIA-based, and none of those ever had problems (with things attached to the MB - we did have drives and a cheap MSI video card fail) over the 5 years I was building and maintaining systems.
Anyway, my Athlon MP system at home is using an AMD chipset (the 760/768 set), and I built it two years ago. I built two of those machines, and they're both quite stable.
blohward, n: 1; An archaic term used to describe one who frequenly wonders how a hole in the ground ended up in the middle of his ass. 2; The lead ship in John Austin's legendary journey around Hudson Bay, wherin a realiable process for the vulcanization of rubber was discovered.
I don't think God said "let people crap on you unjustifiably, and don't bother to correct themwhen they're totally wrong." but I could well be mistaken.:)
BTW, am I the only one who read the name of that dinosaur and wondered "Why would they name a that thing Butt-raper Gonzolez?"
Orignal TV Series Superman was not a parapalegic - just lame copy guy. And surely the three from the second Superman movie (it was the second one, right?) who were scary prisoners are still alive?
I pulled down about 500MB of stuff on the machine I just upgraded, IIRC (or rather, on the one that's presently upgrading) - there are 16 packages that aren't upgraded and the rest are (on my system). The good news is that you can run the command with -d and just download them over a period of a few evenings, then run the update later. I guess that's good news. OpenOffice is a somewhere around 100MB by itself, though, and when you throw in xorg as well... I'm pretty sure there are some extra packages on there.
Oh heck, I'll check my basically default laptop. Just a sec... sudo perl -i.bak -ple's/hoary/breezy/g'/etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
It says: 745 upgraded, 262 newly installed, 30 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 117MB/532MB of archives. After unpacking 368MB of additional disk space will be used.
You're in for over 100MB then, more than likely, since both of mine were over 500MB...:)
It may just be an xorg thing, but I thought Xfree was doing it too. Either way, the xorg X server can basically configure itself, kindof like an extension of the X -probeonly thing from before. Run it as root and it spits out a nicely formatted xorg.conf in ~root/, with comments and everything. It's seriously cool.
And as far as floppies - CD burners didn't exist at the time, and it was either that or get a Walnut Creek CD mirror. Of course, since I didn't know about the CDs and didn't have a CD drive in the machine anyway (but I *did* have a box of 100 pre-formattted floppies and a crasy awesome 56K dialup connetion)... You kids now and your good documentation + readily-available information, you know nothing of my trials.:) I actually built KDE beta 1 on that the P233 I had at the time. There's something that I'd call easy on Gentoo...
I just upgraded a slack box a few weeks ago (though the initial install was actually done 449 days ago, according to uptime). With new Slack (or, more specifically, new X) there are nice tools that can do the configuration for you. Try running "X -configure" sometime - that's much easier in most cases than building an xf86config by hand (or running xf86config, which was essentially the same thing). PCI-based sound cards are popular and relatively easy to configure now - there's no digging around for what interrupt your ISA card is using, and then trying to figure out where exactly the parameters for the module are located. So, while there's still setup required for Slack which is easier than before - it's still impressive to me that Ubuntu (and similar) do all of that "magically".
Never mind what a pain it was to download Slack on about seven million floppy disks...:)
Honestly, I agree with you as far as the PITA LTSP setup. Like I said somewhere once before, I've tried setting LTSP up several times in other environments, and it's a royal pain, chock full of inconvenient.:) The Ubuntu roll o fit's really nice, though, and hides all that crap. It literally took me about ten minutes (not counting the package downloading and installing that happens behind the scenes without user intervention) to get three machines up and running, one as a server and two as netboot clients. If you include the time it took to set up two VMWare virtual machines and install the Ubuntu server + one client (the third client was a physical machine booting from an Intel card), we're at about a half hour of sitting-in-front-of-the-computer to get three fully functional workstations. Additional machines just take an entry in dhcpd.conf, and that's only if you use dhcp "that way".
Anyway, I don't particularly care if it's LTSP or something else - this is easy to set up and easy to maintain so far, and it coincidentally uses LTSP for its organization.
As far as NFS, well, it's about the only network file system that can be used as a network root with Linux, right? I guess with the advent of initrds (not exactly new tech, but really just recently getting useful) I guess anything could be used - but a properly-tuned NFS server is pretty nice. Sure, I use CIFS a lot now, but that's mostly because I like the mapping control I can exert through samba, not because of any real performance gain. NFSv3 has "real" locks and nearly everythign supports it. NFSv4 is pretty close to stably replacing v3 now, and it uses stateful connections - which gets rid of several of the problems people had with UDP-based NFS implementations (and gets rid of the need to run a million daemons).
I meant a distro that provided LTSP stuff - Ubuntu finally has a nice, easy-to-use setup for an LTSP server and client. Given Ubuntu's strong tie with Debian, though, it's likely that Debian could be just as easy. When you use an Ubuntu server you get clients that work like Ubuntu, though - they get that same, nicely integrated desktop. You could always do the same thing by setting up LTSP or similar yourself, and having the display manager answer XDMCP broadcasts, etc - but all it takes on the most recent Ubuntu is installing the ltsp-server (and ltsp-server-utils, if you don't already have DHCP, tftp, etc) package and running "ltsp-build-client". I was impressed at how easily that worked, having set up diskless machines both with and without LTSP before.
There's apparently a minimal-like install option (other than "server") that sets an Ubuntu machine up as a client as well, in the event there's no netboot support or something like that, but I haven't tried that route or really looked into it.
And you don't need to have ancestors in Poland to appreciate the polish.:)
It should be noted that "stuff" includes a nice, functional desktop with programs and associations and sound and a whole bunch of "just use it" kind of feel. On most hardware, it's really impressive how well it manages to just make everything work - especially when one's used to "the old days" (I first installed Slackware circa 1995 - things like X and sound didn't really "just work"). Even today, though, it does a better job of post-install stuff working on more machines than Windows, IMHO.
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You can get by without those fancy LATCH-compatible anchors, too. It's a muzzle and supplemental restraint system, all in one easy to use roll.
;)
I've got an '80 Caprice 2-door I'm trying to sell right now - the windows are already tinted, and the stero's loud enough to drown out even the most persistent child's whining (and any annoying emergency vehicles around), should the tape come free. Just in case you want decide to sell that silly expensive car - insurance costs almost nothing, and it'll get a solid 20 MPG...
I'm not sure about the wwwjjG in my comments, but I can't count how many times I've cursed MS products (IE, specifically - I use some sites are work that are IE-only) when I've pressed "esc-wq" after I'm done editing, and cleared the form (which redo doesn't seem to ever want to repopulate).
Column select by typing ctrl+v and moving the cursor around, then doing anything you would typically do is visual mode. I find myself using s to add spaces/commas/etc a lot.
IMHO, nano is more than a suitable replacement - it's actually a capable editor with a reasonable complete feature set. It also has the coolest product-related web site layout ever. :)
That said, I use vim. The editor that takes a week to learn, and a lifetime to master (word completion - ctrl+n / ctrl+p - and block-mode editing - ctrl+v - are my new features of the month this month)...
Duct tape costs less, an if you tint the windows no one will know to call DCFS. :)
They should blur out my house, too, because I don't want terrorists knowing where my garage full of explosive chemicals is located. Of course, the odds of someone wanting to bow up my garage and not having access to some other map - or a helicopter and a camera with a telephoto lens... Well, those odds are pretty low.
Humanists?
Funny, I've personally seen PETA members out doing stupid things that could be done rationally and without making all vegetarians look like lunatics. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone says that PETA's not a bunch of crazies. Maybe it's just the local few that you hang out with...
http://www.peta.org/ provides about all of the illustration I need.
LyX is awesome - I wrote just about every paper I did through college in Lyx - the ability to include proper math formulae and postscript images (which is just a LaTeX thing) with a nice, easy-to-use interface is great, and the separation of content from layout is amazingly handy. The Win32 port of LyX is pretty good now, too - for those stuck on that evil platform. :)
Never mind the fuel economy gain of letting the computer maintain a constant speed rather than the human thing where something distracts the driver, etc, and speed varies more.
Well, it was Goodyear who alied it the first time, so clearly this other fellow would have no choice but to re-ali it. Geez, do I have to explain everything? :)
Modern VIA chipsets are fine, just like modern AMD processors are fine - early generation stuff often has subtle (ro not-so-subtle) bugs. Does F00F ring a bell? Most of the workstations I built at my last place-o-employ were VIA-based, and none of those ever had problems (with things attached to the MB - we did have drives and a cheap MSI video card fail) over the 5 years I was building and maintaining systems.
Anyway, my Athlon MP system at home is using an AMD chipset (the 760/768 set), and I built it two years ago. I built two of those machines, and they're both quite stable.
blohward, n: 1; An archaic term used to describe one who frequenly wonders how a hole in the ground ended up in the middle of his ass. 2; The lead ship in John Austin's legendary journey around Hudson Bay, wherin a realiable process for the vulcanization of rubber was discovered.
He was probably using definition 1.
Damn it, I don't need people coming in to my office, wondering why I'm laughing out loud. Cut that out.
Well, given that it was August and the tree was a Maple, I can see why she'd think that.
I don't think God said "let people crap on you unjustifiably, and don't bother to correct themwhen they're totally wrong." but I could well be mistaken. :)
BTW, am I the only one who read the name of that dinosaur and wondered "Why would they name a that thing Butt-raper Gonzolez?"
Orignal TV Series Superman was not a parapalegic - just lame copy guy. And surely the three from the second Superman movie (it was the second one, right?) who were scary prisoners are still alive?
I figured the user was browsing with a root-enabled firefox, ala "sudo firefox".
I pulled down about 500MB of stuff on the machine I just upgraded, IIRC (or rather, on the one that's presently upgrading) - there are 16 packages that aren't upgraded and the rest are (on my system). The good news is that you can run the command with -d and just download them over a period of a few evenings, then run the update later. I guess that's good news. OpenOffice is a somewhere around 100MB by itself, though, and when you throw in xorg as well... I'm pretty sure there are some extra packages on there.
/etc/apt/sources.list
:)
Oh heck, I'll check my basically default laptop. Just a sec...
sudo perl -i.bak -ple's/hoary/breezy/g'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
It says:
745 upgraded, 262 newly installed, 30 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 117MB/532MB of archives.
After unpacking 368MB of additional disk space will be used.
You're in for over 100MB then, more than likely, since both of mine were over 500MB...
I don't read news from outside my country's borders or my government's control, you insensitive clod!
It may just be an xorg thing, but I thought Xfree was doing it too. Either way, the xorg X server can basically configure itself, kindof like an extension of the X -probeonly thing from before. Run it as root and it spits out a nicely formatted xorg.conf in ~root/, with comments and everything. It's seriously cool.
:) I actually built KDE beta 1 on that the P233 I had at the time. There's something that I'd call easy on Gentoo...
And as far as floppies - CD burners didn't exist at the time, and it was either that or get a Walnut Creek CD mirror. Of course, since I didn't know about the CDs and didn't have a CD drive in the machine anyway (but I *did* have a box of 100 pre-formattted floppies and a crasy awesome 56K dialup connetion)... You kids now and your good documentation + readily-available information, you know nothing of my trials.
I just upgraded a slack box a few weeks ago (though the initial install was actually done 449 days ago, according to uptime). With new Slack (or, more specifically, new X) there are nice tools that can do the configuration for you. Try running "X -configure" sometime - that's much easier in most cases than building an xf86config by hand (or running xf86config, which was essentially the same thing). PCI-based sound cards are popular and relatively easy to configure now - there's no digging around for what interrupt your ISA card is using, and then trying to figure out where exactly the parameters for the module are located. So, while there's still setup required for Slack which is easier than before - it's still impressive to me that Ubuntu (and similar) do all of that "magically".
:)
Never mind what a pain it was to download Slack on about seven million floppy disks...
Honestly, I agree with you as far as the PITA LTSP setup. Like I said somewhere once before, I've tried setting LTSP up several times in other environments, and it's a royal pain, chock full of inconvenient. :) The Ubuntu roll o fit's really nice, though, and hides all that crap. It literally took me about ten minutes (not counting the package downloading and installing that happens behind the scenes without user intervention) to get three machines up and running, one as a server and two as netboot clients. If you include the time it took to set up two VMWare virtual machines and install the Ubuntu server + one client (the third client was a physical machine booting from an Intel card), we're at about a half hour of sitting-in-front-of-the-computer to get three fully functional workstations. Additional machines just take an entry in dhcpd.conf, and that's only if you use dhcp "that way".
Anyway, I don't particularly care if it's LTSP or something else - this is easy to set up and easy to maintain so far, and it coincidentally uses LTSP for its organization.
As far as NFS, well, it's about the only network file system that can be used as a network root with Linux, right? I guess with the advent of initrds (not exactly new tech, but really just recently getting useful) I guess anything could be used - but a properly-tuned NFS server is pretty nice. Sure, I use CIFS a lot now, but that's mostly because I like the mapping control I can exert through samba, not because of any real performance gain. NFSv3 has "real" locks and nearly everythign supports it. NFSv4 is pretty close to stably replacing v3 now, and it uses stateful connections - which gets rid of several of the problems people had with UDP-based NFS implementations (and gets rid of the need to run a million daemons).
I meant a distro that provided LTSP stuff - Ubuntu finally has a nice, easy-to-use setup for an LTSP server and client. Given Ubuntu's strong tie with Debian, though, it's likely that Debian could be just as easy. When you use an Ubuntu server you get clients that work like Ubuntu, though - they get that same, nicely integrated desktop. You could always do the same thing by setting up LTSP or similar yourself, and having the display manager answer XDMCP broadcasts, etc - but all it takes on the most recent Ubuntu is installing the ltsp-server (and ltsp-server-utils, if you don't already have DHCP, tftp, etc) package and running "ltsp-build-client". I was impressed at how easily that worked, having set up diskless machines both with and without LTSP before.
:)
There's apparently a minimal-like install option (other than "server") that sets an Ubuntu machine up as a client as well, in the event there's no netboot support or something like that, but I haven't tried that route or really looked into it.
And you don't need to have ancestors in Poland to appreciate the polish.
It should be noted that "stuff" includes a nice, functional desktop with programs and associations and sound and a whole bunch of "just use it" kind of feel. On most hardware, it's really impressive how well it manages to just make everything work - especially when one's used to "the old days" (I first installed Slackware circa 1995 - things like X and sound didn't really "just work"). Even today, though, it does a better job of post-install stuff working on more machines than Windows, IMHO.