A similar compound was invented in the Netherlands ages ago, using concrete (cheaper and easier to handle then rubber). It is called ZOAB ("Zeer Open Asfalt Beton", meaning "Very Open Asphalt Concrete") This highly porous material has several beneficial properties, such as being more quiet, and more efficient in draining water, thus preventing aquaplaning. It is a safer road, alltogether. Now some university is passing this off as a "Great American Invention"?!?!
Hmmm, yes -1 eurotrash.
You see you they are using asphalt, not concrete. They are using a different method. But, in your blind anti-Americanism you have to speak up and say that you have found offense where none was intended or given.
Whoa man.... You have some serious issues if you think pleasing the woman you love is slavery. Pleasing the woman (or man) you love should be your chief joy. That is what love really is, finding happiness in making your spouse happy.
(Warning, biblical reference ahead)
The relationship between a husband and wife is a reflection after Christ's relationship with the church. Christ left heaven and all its riches to humble (even this word humble does not do it justice) himself to redeem the church. That is the love Christ had for his church, we are to do this also with our spouses.
Nah, I think we'll all run around chopping heads off people until there is only one. Then they'll get the "prize", which means they can read everyone elses thoughts, until a couple weirdos sent by this evil overlord try to come and kill him who will be very old until he kills the goons, which then he will become young again, then have sex with some lady off the street who hates him, which will cause them to fall in love, then they will work together to get rid of the "shield" and then kill the uber overlord and then he will the the only one again, until three other imortals are dug up from somewhere in asia and he has to kill those, and get the "prize" yet again.
I know a lot of the anti-virus companies sport "insta-clean-your-machine" software all the time, but I don't trust it. There are so many variants of viruses and worms and such nasties that how can you be sure that every peice of the infection is removed? How can you be sure that there was not a second payload that was associated with the worm, or that it didn't open a second back door the AV company didn't know about.
The best plan is to not remove worms/viruses. The best plan is to reinstall from trusted media. Patch the known holes, then bring the machine back online.
Yeah, but will the folks complaining that recall is wrong be pushing for that next year? That is the question, are all the dems who are saying recalls are morally wrong this year going to say next year what the republicans/everyone else is saying this year?
I would expect lots of hypocracy next year. The winner of the recall might even claim next year that recalls are bad.
I know that the idea is to pump some karma here for a cheep shot at your wife, but I dare you to show your wife your post here on slashdot when you get home.
Nod, I don't seem to be able to find the settings in kde that doesn't give focus on new windows. I know windowmaker does (as that is my normal WM). The only thing that bothers me with not giving focus to new windows is when you open your first instance of anything it does not have focus! Doh! Otherwise its a wonderful feature.
Hmmm, sometimes the "reboot your computer" thing is a to start folks off at a similar starting point. A baseline for reference.
I was recently on tech support for my DSL, the tech said the usual reboot/etc... I told him I did. I then asked him to ping my ip and see what happened, nothing. Then try a trace route, to which he found a router or something between here and there not responding. All said and done a couple minutes on the phone. So, not all tech support is crappy. *chuckle* The guy even mentioned that he knew a friend that used linux. It made me smile anyways.
Another tech support I had the other day was my phone somehow was using pulse instead of tone dialing. Well, without any obvious marks on the phone for switching back and the manual with the phone saying there was a switch where there was most definitely not a switch, I decided to call the tech support for the phone. Sure enough, they looked up the model and found that I just had to do some strange ritual of pressing buttons and it switched back to tone. Again, tech support wasn't the usual useless.
I think quite often the problem with tech support tends to be the poeple who call. When you know what you are asking, things go better. When you don't know what you really want as the outcome, it is quite often blind leading the blind.
My wife and I program at the same place, but when we rub up against each other, others go, "Eeeeeew!" Actually, we don't work in the same building, so this isn't really a problem.
Inconsistent location of files./usr ,/usr/local ,/bin ,/sbin, and the like are not intuitive and not consistently used either. I shudder at the thought of trying to explain this structure to my wife or mother./bin,/sbin,/lib: required to boot libraries and utilities/usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/usr/lib: apps and libraries that came with the distribution/usr/local/...: from source installations not from the distribution/opt/...: binary packages not with the original distribution
Your mom doesn't need to know the package installation schemes. The distribution has its installation software which should take care of it. Or in the case of rpm's or ebuild's or which ever format the distribution uses the poeple making the package should know where the stuff goes.
Dependency hell. This can and should be resolved automatically without needing user intervention.
Hmmm, some of the more primitive packaging systems do need help here, but I also find the more primitive ones make better servers, such as slackware's. But yast, portage, and more advanced package utilities take care of the dependancies.
Too much dependance on editing configuration files by hand. While this can and should always be an option, I've had to do it too many times where it was obvious that the feature should have been accessible through a gui. (most recently, getting samba to boot up automatically instead of being started by hand. Not hard but I can't believe I'm the only one who ever wanted to do that.)
Agreed that editing configs by hand is important. Consider though, if I edit by hand, I need something that can read ALL of the changes I make. Parsing machine written data is easier than human written. Most config files that are written by machines will say "do not edit by hand or changes will be lost." Its tough to make sure you don't screw something up. Typically I'd just say get rid of machine editing configs, unless it is the actual application itself.
Ugly fonts. Particularly bad in Mozilla. This has been getting better, but there still are issues to be resolved.
Everyone cries about the fonts in linux. There must be something there, but I find it easy enough to work with. I'm not a font-o-phile though.
Documentation. Usually you can find out how to do something but you had better be technically adept. Previous exposure to unix systems helps a lot. Documentation under linux usually sucks big time.
The problem is what level does the app writer want to target his documentation. I know quite often there are very complex and techinical documents that are written for techinical people. Those technical people then implement the feature into a distribution. When that happens it is cause the app writer is targetting a techinical group. The idea is the distribution should make it easy, not the app writer.
Lack of formal driver support from hardware vendors. Most hardware these days seems to work, but far too often is unsupported by the vendors and as such doesn't always work as intended. (there are notable exceptions) I understand why they don't support it, but that doesn't mean they couldn't. This is much better than it was a few years back but it still lags windows significantly.
Unfortuneatly this will only be fixed when there is a critical demand for linux on the desktop. It is not something the community can do itself. There are some hardware vendors that are moving to releasing drivers though. I think a major hang up is not necessarily always the lack of ability to write the drivers, but the requirement to installing them, since there are so many distributions. Inevitabley there will be certain distributions that they support and certain ones they do not support.
Awkward and inconsistant user interfaces. Virtually all linux applications ar
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A similar compound was invented in the Netherlands ages ago, using concrete (cheaper and easier to handle then rubber). It is called ZOAB ("Zeer Open Asfalt Beton", meaning "Very Open Asphalt Concrete") This highly porous material has several beneficial properties, such as being more quiet, and more efficient in draining water, thus preventing aquaplaning. It is a safer road, alltogether. Now some university is passing this off as a "Great American Invention"?!?!
Hmmm, yes -1 eurotrash.
You see you they are using asphalt, not concrete. They are using a different method. But, in your blind anti-Americanism you have to speak up and say that you have found offense where none was intended or given.
Any ideas about fuel efficiency? It seems to me if the road is causing more friction, there must be more power used to move the vehicle.
Yeah, atleast you can replace a house. I wouldn't be too worried about that.
Eye and brain transplants are pretty rare as of now.
Whoa man.... You have some serious issues if you think pleasing the woman you love is slavery. Pleasing the woman (or man) you love should be your chief joy. That is what love really is, finding happiness in making your spouse happy.
(Warning, biblical reference ahead)
The relationship between a husband and wife is a reflection after Christ's relationship with the church. Christ left heaven and all its riches to humble (even this word humble does not do it justice) himself to redeem the church. That is the love Christ had for his church, we are to do this also with our spouses.
Nothing quite says I love you... like radiation sickness.
You do realize, its not what you like. Its what she likes.
I think traditional red roses are nice. My wife however could probably care less about roses, but lilies are her thing.
No you idiot... The murders are all dead.
:-)
First we need a time machine...
Yeah, but wouldn't you know it, we'd probably be wiped out by some virus floating around on a telephone while ark B settles earth.
Nah, I think we'll all run around chopping heads off people until there is only one. Then they'll get the "prize", which means they can read everyone elses thoughts, until a couple weirdos sent by this evil overlord try to come and kill him who will be very old until he kills the goons, which then he will become young again, then have sex with some lady off the street who hates him, which will cause them to fall in love, then they will work together to get rid of the "shield" and then kill the uber overlord and then he will the the only one again, until three other imortals are dug up from somewhere in asia and he has to kill those, and get the "prize" yet again.
Well, at the least you could install wtf. Granted you need to successfully get a linux or bsd installed first.
You haven't seen what happens when there is an anti-US article though. Then you get all sorts of CAians and EUians bashing our politics.
There's plenty of non Americans who love US politics, if only to troll the articles.
Hmmm, best plan is to reinstall.
I know a lot of the anti-virus companies sport "insta-clean-your-machine" software all the time, but I don't trust it. There are so many variants of viruses and worms and such nasties that how can you be sure that every peice of the infection is removed? How can you be sure that there was not a second payload that was associated with the worm, or that it didn't open a second back door the AV company didn't know about.
The best plan is to not remove worms/viruses. The best plan is to reinstall from trusted media. Patch the known holes, then bring the machine back online.
She doesn't plan on winning and letting Gray stay in office?
Yeah, but will the folks complaining that recall is wrong be pushing for that next year? That is the question, are all the dems who are saying recalls are morally wrong this year going to say next year what the republicans/everyone else is saying this year?
I would expect lots of hypocracy next year. The winner of the recall might even claim next year that recalls are bad.
What a horrible thing to say.
I know that the idea is to pump some karma here for a cheep shot at your wife, but I dare you to show your wife your post here on slashdot when you get home.
Nod, I don't seem to be able to find the settings in kde that doesn't give focus on new windows. I know windowmaker does (as that is my normal WM). The only thing that bothers me with not giving focus to new windows is when you open your first instance of anything it does not have focus! Doh! Otherwise its a wonderful feature.
I don't know about opera, my wife uses it though.
In mozilla you can set new tab to ctrl-click or middle click. there might be more options, but I am too lazy to go the the prefences...
Nope, 2k.
But the problem is that I have a scsi dvd drive and the software that came with the video card complains that the dvd drive does not have dma access.
As far as the laptop goes, I don't know why it won't work.
Hmmm, sometimes the "reboot your computer" thing is a to start folks off at a similar starting point. A baseline for reference.
I was recently on tech support for my DSL, the tech said the usual reboot/etc... I told him I did. I then asked him to ping my ip and see what happened, nothing. Then try a trace route, to which he found a router or something between here and there not responding. All said and done a couple minutes on the phone. So, not all tech support is crappy. *chuckle* The guy even mentioned that he knew a friend that used linux. It made me smile anyways.
Another tech support I had the other day was my phone somehow was using pulse instead of tone dialing. Well, without any obvious marks on the phone for switching back and the manual with the phone saying there was a switch where there was most definitely not a switch, I decided to call the tech support for the phone. Sure enough, they looked up the model and found that I just had to do some strange ritual of pressing buttons and it switched back to tone. Again, tech support wasn't the usual useless.
I think quite often the problem with tech support tends to be the poeple who call. When you know what you are asking, things go better. When you don't know what you really want as the outcome, it is quite often blind leading the blind.
The best part of a donut shaped world is that civilization maps make more sense. :-)
Middle click, and it loads a new tab.
Douglas Adams is dead, so he won't be able to update HHGTTG and the milliways stuff.
Iiiwwwiiii thhhhhiiiinkkkk iiiitttt maaaaakkkkkeeeesss mmmmmmeee mmmmoooooooorrrreeeee iinnnnntttteeeeelllllliiigggeeennntttt ttttttoooooo.
My wife and I program at the same place, but when we rub up against each other, others go, "Eeeeeew!" Actually, we don't work in the same building, so this isn't really a problem.
Inconsistent location of files. /usr , /usr/local , /bin , /sbin, and the like are not intuitive and not consistently used either. I shudder at the thought of trying to explain this structure to my wife or mother. /bin,/sbin,/lib: required to boot libraries and utilities /usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/usr/lib: apps and libraries that came with the distribution /usr/local/...: from source installations not from the distribution /opt/...: binary packages not with the original distribution
Your mom doesn't need to know the package installation schemes. The distribution has its installation software which should take care of it. Or in the case of rpm's or ebuild's or which ever format the distribution uses the poeple making the package should know where the stuff goes.
Dependency hell. This can and should be resolved automatically without needing user intervention.
Hmmm, some of the more primitive packaging systems do need help here, but I also find the more primitive ones make better servers, such as slackware's. But yast, portage, and more advanced package utilities take care of the dependancies.
Too much dependance on editing configuration files by hand. While this can and should always be an option, I've had to do it too many times where it was obvious that the feature should have been accessible through a gui. (most recently, getting samba to boot up automatically instead of being started by hand. Not hard but I can't believe I'm the only one who ever wanted to do that.)
Agreed that editing configs by hand is important. Consider though, if I edit by hand, I need something that can read ALL of the changes I make. Parsing machine written data is easier than human written. Most config files that are written by machines will say "do not edit by hand or changes will be lost." Its tough to make sure you don't screw something up. Typically I'd just say get rid of machine editing configs, unless it is the actual application itself.
Ugly fonts. Particularly bad in Mozilla. This has been getting better, but there still are issues to be resolved.
Everyone cries about the fonts in linux. There must be something there, but I find it easy enough to work with. I'm not a font-o-phile though.
Documentation. Usually you can find out how to do something but you had better be technically adept. Previous exposure to unix systems helps a lot. Documentation under linux usually sucks big time.
The problem is what level does the app writer want to target his documentation. I know quite often there are very complex and techinical documents that are written for techinical people. Those technical people then implement the feature into a distribution. When that happens it is cause the app writer is targetting a techinical group. The idea is the distribution should make it easy, not the app writer.
Lack of formal driver support from hardware vendors. Most hardware these days seems to work, but far too often is unsupported by the vendors and as such doesn't always work as intended. (there are notable exceptions) I understand why they don't support it, but that doesn't mean they couldn't. This is much better than it was a few years back but it still lags windows significantly.
Unfortuneatly this will only be fixed when there is a critical demand for linux on the desktop. It is not something the community can do itself. There are some hardware vendors that are moving to releasing drivers though. I think a major hang up is not necessarily always the lack of ability to write the drivers, but the requirement to installing them, since there are so many distributions. Inevitabley there will be certain distributions that they support and certain ones they do not support.
Awkward and inconsistant user interfaces. Virtually all linux applications ar