By your argument, then a newborn baby wont miss being alive either. Boy, wouldn't that be easier? Now all these women who couldn't keep their legs together can just wait until the baby is born and then bash it's head in with a rock! Then we can all be happy that there really *are* no long term consequences for our actions! Yay!
My opinon is that car technology peaked in the early 90's.
I own two cars. One is an 88 Gm sportscar with a 2.8 ltr v6. It currently has 120K on the engine. I get over 22mpg with my lead foot. It's got all the fuel injection and electronic ignition stuff, but it's simple. If something breaks, which rarely happens, I can fix it myself. If the systems check engine light comes on, I can find out whats wrong with a paper clip to short out two pins and get it to blink a service code to me. I then can look up the code in a $12 book I got at a parts store, or my $100 factory service manual if the $12 one doesn't tell me enough.
My other car is a 95 chevy tracker. This thing has so many componants that I can't begin to track things down. And when the check engine light comes on, I need to take it to a shop and pay them to tell me whats wrong.
I agree with the automatic transmission thing. Older automatics were bad. But that doesn't concern me. I drive manual transmission cars, and I'll never buy an auto if I have a choice. I just don't like automatics.
There's no reason to worry about the KDE print dialog. Any app can be programed to output postscript and then pipe it to kprinter. KDE has the printing thing licked, and has for a long time. I can use KDE's print dialog with mozilla, openoffice, and just about any other program that lets me chose what program to use for the print que.
that now companys who don't want to fork over a licence fee to trolltech can build apps that integrate with KDE using gtk and no one would have to know or care? Or is there some kind of GPL conflict that I'm not seeing?
Dude. The link in your sig is just plain evil. Very, very evil. I won't be able to sleep for a week. Every time I close my eyes, that guys streched rectum seems to be burned into the inside of my eyelids.
I'm not really a developer. I've compiled and configured an entire network of free software, but I could not code "hello world" without looking at a "{programing language} for dummys" book to save my life. I've used Gnome 2.4. I used if for a month both at work and at home. At the end, I was *so* happy I could go back to KDE. KDE just works. Now. I couldn't even get printing to be uniform in Gnome. I wish OpenOffice and Mozilla would have the option to use KDE's dialogs, but at least I have a consistant printing system with kprinter. KDE is lightyears ahead of Gnome. Gnome has no consistancy whatsoever. Things don't mesh well at all. It feels like a bunch of parts just thrown together. I have dabbled in programing. I've thrown together little bits and pieces to see how they go together. Never really gotten anywhere simply becouse I don't like programing enough. However, I do know that if I ever wanted to make an app, I would use QT. And it wouldn't matter if I wanted to use the GPL or make it commercial. The fee for a commercial license is pocket change for a commercial project. I would be able to call TrollTech for support. I have easy to read documentation for every single funtion in QT. I have no one to call for gtk support. Also, I have the assurance that if TrollTech ever went under, I would have the QT code since they have agreed to release it under a BSD style licence if that were to happen. Here's a quick test using google seaches: QT toolkit Technical Support GTK toolkit Technical Support Now, if I were a comercial company, which toolkit would I want to use? One with full technical support, excelent documentation, and a contract that assures I'm never left without the code that costs money? Or a toolkit with no technical support, inferior documentation, no guarantee that development will continue thats free? Using Gnome for a distribution geared toward business is a bad idea. Mark my words: This will end badly, even if the distribution is successful.
I don't know where you're living or what company you get health insurance from, but when I got married my insurance went from $6 a week to $25 a week. This is with blue cross, not some fly by night. The reason for this was that now that I got married, I might have kids, and the health costs for my *family* would go up. Gay couples cannot have kids, so at most the health insurance should double.
hahahah.... the parent is correct. The nasty picture has some wierd filer on it and there is a "happy halloween" picture. What better site to memorilize the death of the deamon's children during the great flood!
Get OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta. The filters have *vastly* improved. There are many features added as well. Don't bother with StarOffice unless you really need comercial support (questions are probbly answered faster on the forums) or the clipart (which you can get elseware anyway). The database app thats distributed sucks, so I won't even count that.
You have a sams club card I take it?:-) I've been looking at that laptop for a while now. Did you by chance load linux on it?
Re:Latest trend: sliding thingies
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Zaurus 5600 Announced
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· Score: 5, Informative
I've owned a Zaurus since they were realeased. It's a LOT tougher then it looks. My keyboard did become loose, but only after I dropped it six feet onto a concrete sidewalk. It still works fine, btw. Overall it's a very solid device.
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Landshark
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· Score: 3, Interesting
It's a Hydrofoil boat on the water. Perhaps the hydrofoil can be tucked up into the body while on land? It can keep it's center of gravity low and also employ veriable pitch airfoils for downforce while on land. This is not built like a typical V-Hull Grady White.
The subject says it all. Optical mice can track movement on almost ANY surface. Why should this pen be any diffrent? Needing special paper completely ruins this product.
>So, a company releases a proprietary DivX player -Yes... tckPlayer is propriatary
>for a proprietary window system -Nope... The windowing system and toolkit are GPL. For an entirely GPLed enviroment that will still run standard Zaurus apps (minus Java for now, sorry) see Opie which is the UI for OpenZaurus. We're building a player for all these formats as I type this.
>running on hardware that's mostly used in Japan -Nope again. The Zaurus 5500 is a US/EU product.
The zaurus syncs over IP networking. Windows XP has a personal firewall that is built in and enabled by default without the users knowledge. Put two and two together.... This poor guy just needed to turn off his firewall, becouse if it is turned on the Zaurus can not sync. And, yes, I own a Zaurus.
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The letter was worded like the old joke, "Do you still beat your wife?" There was no way to answer the question without incriminating yourself.
;)
Simple. You reply:
Your question assumes facts not in evidence.
Everyone should learn that one for when they come after you.
By your argument, then a newborn baby wont miss being alive either. Boy, wouldn't that be easier? Now all these women who couldn't keep their legs together can just wait until the baby is born and then bash it's head in with a rock! Then we can all be happy that there really *are* no long term consequences for our actions! Yay!
My opinon is that car technology peaked in the early 90's.
I own two cars. One is an 88 Gm sportscar with a 2.8 ltr v6. It currently has 120K on the engine. I get over 22mpg with my lead foot. It's got all the fuel injection and electronic ignition stuff, but it's simple.
If something breaks, which rarely happens, I can fix it myself. If the systems check engine light comes on, I can find out whats wrong with a paper clip to short out two pins and get it to blink a service code to me. I then can look up the code in a $12 book I got at a parts store, or my $100 factory service manual if the $12 one doesn't tell me enough.
My other car is a 95 chevy tracker. This thing has so many componants that I can't begin to track things down. And when the check engine light comes on, I need to take it to a shop and pay them to tell me whats wrong.
I agree with the automatic transmission thing. Older automatics were bad. But that doesn't concern me. I drive manual transmission cars, and I'll never buy an auto if I have a choice. I just don't like automatics.
There's no reason to worry about the KDE print dialog. Any app can be programed to output postscript and then pipe it to kprinter. KDE has the printing thing licked, and has for a long time. I can use KDE's print dialog with mozilla, openoffice, and just about any other program that lets me chose what program to use for the print que.
that now companys who don't want to fork over a licence fee to trolltech can build apps that integrate with KDE using gtk and no one would have to know or care? Or is there some kind of GPL conflict that I'm not seeing?
Dude. The link in your sig is just plain evil. Very, very evil. I won't be able to sleep for a week. Every time I close my eyes, that guys streched rectum seems to be burned into the inside of my eyelids.
I'm not really a developer. I've compiled and configured an entire network of free software, but I could not code "hello world" without looking at a "{programing language} for dummys" book to save my life. I've used Gnome 2.4. I used if for a month both at work and at home. At the end, I was *so* happy I could go back to KDE. KDE just works. Now. I couldn't even get printing to be uniform in Gnome. I wish OpenOffice and Mozilla would have the option to use KDE's dialogs, but at least I have a consistant printing system with kprinter. KDE is lightyears ahead of Gnome. Gnome has no consistancy whatsoever. Things don't mesh well at all. It feels like a bunch of parts just thrown together. I have dabbled in programing. I've thrown together little bits and pieces to see how they go together. Never really gotten anywhere simply becouse I don't like programing enough. However, I do know that if I ever wanted to make an app, I would use QT. And it wouldn't matter if I wanted to use the GPL or make it commercial. The fee for a commercial license is pocket change for a commercial project. I would be able to call TrollTech for support. I have easy to read documentation for every single funtion in QT. I have no one to call for gtk support. Also, I have the assurance that if TrollTech ever went under, I would have the QT code since they have agreed to release it under a BSD style licence if that were to happen.
Here's a quick test using google seaches:
QT toolkit Technical Support
GTK toolkit Technical Support
Now, if I were a comercial company, which toolkit would I want to use? One with full technical support, excelent documentation, and a contract that assures I'm never left without the code that costs money?
Or a toolkit with no technical support, inferior documentation, no guarantee that development will continue thats free?
Using Gnome for a distribution geared toward business is a bad idea. Mark my words: This will end badly, even if the distribution is successful.
I don't know where you're living or what company you get health insurance from, but when I got married my insurance went from $6 a week to $25 a week. This is with blue cross, not some fly by night. The reason for this was that now that I got married, I might have kids, and the health costs for my *family* would go up. Gay couples cannot have kids, so at most the health insurance should double.
Themassiah,
f b winamp50_full.exe8 1 winamp50_full.exe.orig
I'm not saying you did something to the file, but for some reason the md5sum does not match the one from nullsoft.
$ md5sum winamp50_full.ex*
43ecd335d7e4cfa2d78af90adb1bd8
d2d9d1f29a3ed853e364ffb5d5de45
Asterisk: the open source software PBX, which runs on Linux, and has a hardware company to back it up with support and equipment?
hahahah....
the parent is correct. The nasty picture has some wierd filer on it and there is a "happy halloween" picture. What better site to memorilize the death of the deamon's children during the great flood!
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Does anyone have a link to the google cache of this page?
er.... nevermind...
Dude, it sounded like a chalenge to me, but your new one just sounds like a troll that I would ignore. :)
heh.
> Create a file named --help, then try to delete it.
./--test
./-foo
:-)
easy..
$ echo "this is a test" > "--test"
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 bflong bflong 15 Aug 24 22:33 --test
$ rm
rm: remove regular file `./--test'? y
$
Note that deleteing a file that starts with a "-" is documented in "rm --help" Which was quite handy for this:
To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo',
use one of these commands:
rm -- -foo
rm
Next.
Kopete has a plugin for this already in CVS. I've been using it for the past few days. Kopete is really comming along nicely.
... make fist, extend middle finger....
In related news, Pringles shipments were up by %110.
Get OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta. The filters have *vastly* improved. There are many features added as well. Don't bother with StarOffice unless you really need comercial support (questions are probbly answered faster on the forums) or the clipart (which you can get elseware anyway). The database app thats distributed sucks, so I won't even count that.
You have a sams club card I take it? :-)
I've been looking at that laptop for a while now. Did you by chance load linux on it?
I've owned a Zaurus since they were realeased. It's a LOT tougher then it looks. My keyboard did become loose, but only after I dropped it six feet onto a concrete sidewalk. It still works fine, btw. Overall it's a very solid device.
It's a Hydrofoil boat on the water. Perhaps the hydrofoil can be tucked up into the body while on land?
It can keep it's center of gravity low and also employ veriable pitch airfoils for downforce while on land.
This is not built like a typical V-Hull Grady White.
The subject says it all. Optical mice can track movement on almost ANY surface. Why should this pen be any diffrent? Needing special paper completely ruins this product.
>So, a company releases a proprietary DivX player
-Yes... tckPlayer is propriatary
>for a proprietary window system
-Nope... The windowing system and toolkit are GPL. For an entirely GPLed enviroment that will still run standard Zaurus apps (minus Java for now, sorry) see Opie which is the UI for OpenZaurus. We're building a player for all these formats as I type this.
>running on hardware that's mostly used in Japan
-Nope again. The Zaurus 5500 is a US/EU product.
the guts of a cheap scanner, some camera parts, and scrap wood to build a very high quality digitcal camera.
...you should see the web server he made with a cheap watch, some cat 3 cable, and toliet paper... oh, nevermind.... it just exploded.
The zaurus syncs over IP networking.
Windows XP has a personal firewall that is built in and enabled by default without the users knowledge.
Put two and two together....
This poor guy just needed to turn off his firewall, becouse if it is turned on the Zaurus can not sync.
And, yes, I own a Zaurus.