I suspect it's because the majority of.us citizens have ancestors from Europe, and
1) there's naturally an interest in how things are in "the old country", and 2) parts of the culture get passed down, and so European culture is broadly more similar to ours than Africa's, and that includes cultural values, mores, and so on. And religion as well, though Europe is now much more secular than we are, so I read, but it's still easier to understand a country with a Christian near-past than e.g. one with a Muslim or animist past.
. For me, the FAT32 partitions are much easier to oeprate with if you are using non-Microsoft tools to deal with the partitions.
Update your tools. Get a copy of UBCD4Win, Knoppix, and the GParted LiveCD. We use those at my job and together they handle all of my NTFS needs[0]. The latter two are free-as-in-beer and -speech, the former requires you to have a Windows XP license[1] but otherwise is beer-free.
As to the crapware: we usually buy Dell's business-oriented systems. They'll include Google Desktop and Toolbar, and one or two other things. Easy-peasy to get rid of and/or update to newer versions. If you get more than one, use a disk-clone utility (there's at least one on UBCD4Win or you could use GParted-cd) for imaging. Or Clonezilla if it's a *big* installation and you want to do it over the network.
[0] You could do without Knoppix, but sometimes UBCD4Win doesn't work with newer network cards. When doing UBCD, also have the installer include the DOS version for more utilities. There's a thread on UBCD4Win's forum about how to make the new DOS version work -- I did the one that had you edit the file pointing to the right boot loader.
[1] Legally. Technically you just need an XP install CD.
Sounds like you should pick up and move, friend. We're getting more and more Californians here in the Midwest for that reason and because it's cheaper to live here.
Tactically, though, we had our asses handed to us. Thousands dead and many ships sunk[1] for a cost of five midget subs and their crews, one fleet sub which disappeared, and a couple dozen aircraft.
Much like Coral Sea, which was a strategic victory for us (stopped the Nipponese advance, also made Shokaku and Zuikaku unavailable for Midway) but a tactical victory for them (large fleet carrier, a destroyer, and a tanker sunk for us versus a light carrier sunk, one fleet carrier damaged, and the other carrier's air wing decimated).
[1] Granted, only Arizona, Utah, and Oklahoma were permanent losses, though the only usable bits of Cassin and Downes were their machinery.
but just have your DTD as a W3C standard, distribute copies with your software, and don't bother a remote server until a new version of the DTD is released. Then distribute it with a new version of your software.
Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking relying on a server to be always available?
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I first parsed that as "goatsex in running shoes". Please don't do that again.
Paper Cartridge Load Letter. You need to reload your Laserjet with letter-size paper, as opposed to PC LOAD A4, which would need A4 paper.
/fancy/ printer, since it can display lower-case on its status display. Mine just says PC LOAD LETTER or 00 POWERSAVE.
You must have a
There, destroyed the joke for you.
Jesus. What make/model is it?
Or lack thereof.
-1, troll, here I come.
Let me be the first to say "Horse shit!".
However, yes, I'm certain plays more or less of a role, depending on who you're talking about.
We have some racist rednecks out this way who look down on anyone who's not a white Christian, for example.
I suspect it's because the majority of .us citizens have ancestors from Europe, and
1) there's naturally an interest in how things are in "the old country", and
2) parts of the culture get passed down, and so European culture is broadly more similar to ours than Africa's, and that includes cultural values, mores, and so on. And religion as well, though Europe is now much more secular than we are, so I read, but it's still easier to understand a country with a Christian near-past than e.g. one with a Muslim or animist past.
Yes, because gods know we need to have a war on two fronts...
Oh? We do already?
Well, carry on then.
Update your tools. Get a copy of UBCD4Win, Knoppix, and the GParted LiveCD. We use those at my job and together they handle all of my NTFS needs[0]. The latter two are free-as-in-beer and -speech, the former requires you to have a Windows XP license[1] but otherwise is beer-free.
As to the crapware: we usually buy Dell's business-oriented systems. They'll include Google Desktop and Toolbar, and one or two other things. Easy-peasy to get rid of and/or update to newer versions. If you get more than one, use a disk-clone utility (there's at least one on UBCD4Win or you could use GParted-cd) for imaging. Or Clonezilla if it's a *big* installation and you want to do it over the network.
[0] You could do without Knoppix, but sometimes UBCD4Win doesn't work with newer network cards. When doing UBCD, also have the installer include the DOS version for more utilities. There's a thread on UBCD4Win's forum about how to make the new DOS version work -- I did the one that had you edit the file pointing to the right boot loader.
[1] Legally. Technically you just need an XP install CD.
That's a... let's see... helical penis?
Must be surplus tort^Winterrogation equipment from Abu Ghraib.
Acer? Blech. All their computers (that I've serviced) came with their Windows partitions formatted FAT32.
What the fuck? I can see *maybe* doing that back when '98 wasn't too stale, but in 2006?
Sounds like you should pick up and move, friend. We're getting more and more Californians here in the Midwest for that reason and because it's cheaper to live here.
Harry Turtledove wrote a book (Guns of the South) that had Afrikaners go back in time and give the Confederacy AK-47s.
No, I refuse to read it.
ROFL. Thanks, I've had a boring day.
Do me with garlic hummus, though; it'll be good for my skin.
Yes. God forbid Zonk remember one of the most interesting stories of the past month, even if he didn't post it.
The previous article, from 3 weeks ago when the news was actually fresh:
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/
No. The way they'll do that is to create some "nifty" site (bait) which requires Silverlight, to convince the herd to download it...
No, wait. They own it, they own Windows Update; it'll get pushed out when it's ready.
*Then* some pinhead will start making "IE optimized" sites again.
I'm sorry, did you have anything to add?
Tactically, though, we had our asses handed to us. Thousands dead and many ships sunk[1] for a cost of five midget subs and their crews, one fleet sub which disappeared, and a couple dozen aircraft.
Much like Coral Sea, which was a strategic victory for us (stopped the Nipponese advance, also made Shokaku and Zuikaku unavailable for Midway) but a tactical victory for them (large fleet carrier, a destroyer, and a tanker sunk for us versus a light carrier sunk, one fleet carrier damaged, and the other carrier's air wing decimated).
[1] Granted, only Arizona, Utah, and Oklahoma were permanent losses, though the only usable bits of Cassin and Downes were their machinery.
Your trust in the world is cute.
expands until your computer becomes goatse.
Then you upgrade and the cycle begins anew.
but just have your DTD as a W3C standard, distribute copies with your software, and don't bother a remote server until a new version of the DTD is released. Then distribute it with a new version of your software.
Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking relying on a server to be always available?
You don't have a first-gen PPC Mac unless it has a PowerPC 601 processor. *Maybe* a 603. Those would be from about 1994.
That's what his worshippers believe, anyway.
Cost, probably.