Good points. For myself, I just use text based methods to set text off, either "quotes" or _underlines_. I always had problems getting links to work right. Especially if I wanted it to look nice and use one word to click on, and hide the actual link info. Now I just paste the damn url into my message, nevermind the asthetics, and/. does the work for me. I like that.
Now, as for using the text editors to get Linux booting right, I agree totally. First you have to figure out which version of which configuration file in which folder is actually controlling the action you want. Then figure out how to use the damn text editor to change it, and hope it actually does what you want. And I'm no nube either, despite my new nickname. Just last month I installed Slackware 12 on a spare hard drive, and had to do all that to _try_ to get it to boot up to the GUI, and had no luck at all. I actually figured out which command to type to start the gui, but couldn't get the runlevel set right. Oh well, that drive got erased to perform a backup of a customer's hard drive. (Money takes precedence over geekdom I guess.) I might try it again soon.
And 90% of the remainder spacecraft work like meteors, not aircraft.
The first one that comes to minde for me is that scene at the end of "Galaxy Quest" where the kid has roman candles to guide the vessel down. Maybe that's first to mind because Sigourney Weaver stepped out of it with a near complete 'wardrobe malfunction'.;^)
How did you know I have lame 90's rock posters on my wall? And how come there bothering you anyway? At least their better than my sister, she has kittens and unicorns posters.
Seriously, all the gadgets and tech toys that kids have do not teach them how to read, write or count. They certainly don't help students in planning science projects, or recording, analyzing and interpreting test results. They only help the kids push buttons faster.
And to add insult to injury, Bush's edumakashunal program is making it worse. They should take away the testing and the toys, and let the teachers teach again.
"I thin[k] a backup, if possible should always be recommended."
Amen to that. Unless it is a vanilla install with no personal data at all, at least recommend the backup. If it is a business system with years worth of email, business letters, customer databases, and all that, perform the backup first. Even if it means removing the hard drive to put it into your own tech system. Don't even give an option of not backing it up before doing in depth work. At least 1 time in 100 the drive is actually at the end of its life, and will die before the reinstall finishes. And 01% is a low-endian guess, it is probably much more often.
Considering how many customers I have serviced that lost everything because their drive physically died, how is a backup not a standard procedure? The other part of this of course is that my regular customers have a backup system in place. I insist on it, they know I'm right, and it's not a problem.
That's just how English is. On a related note, if you "bone a chicken", is it the opposite if you "debone a chicken"? Another pair of opposite-sounding synonyms is "ravel" and "unravel". How many more are out there?
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Good points. For myself, I just use text based methods to set text off, either "quotes" or _underlines_. I always had problems getting links to work right. Especially if I wanted it to look nice and use one word to click on, and hide the actual link info. Now I just paste the damn url into my message, nevermind the asthetics, and /. does the work for me. I like that.
Now, as for using the text editors to get Linux booting right, I agree totally. First you have to figure out which version of which configuration file in which folder is actually controlling the action you want. Then figure out how to use the damn text editor to change it, and hope it actually does what you want. And I'm no nube either, despite my new nickname. Just last month I installed Slackware 12 on a spare hard drive, and had to do all that to _try_ to get it to boot up to the GUI, and had no luck at all. I actually figured out which command to type to start the gui, but couldn't get the runlevel set right. Oh well, that drive got erased to perform a backup of a customer's hard drive. (Money takes precedence over geekdom I guess.) I might try it again soon.
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I don't code web pages for a living, and I don't have all the codes memorized, so I use the options suited to me. You should too.
My gripe about this comment page is they removed the checkbox to post anonymously. How am I supposed to anonymously troll if I can't be anonymous?
And 90% of the remainder spacecraft work like meteors, not aircraft.
;^)
The first one that comes to minde for me is that scene at the end of "Galaxy Quest" where the kid has roman candles to guide the vessel down. Maybe that's first to mind because Sigourney Weaver stepped out of it with a near complete 'wardrobe malfunction'.
How did you know I have lame 90's rock posters on my wall? And how come there bothering you anyway? At least their better than my sister, she has kittens and unicorns posters.
Hello friend,
Pardon me for asking, but what is this "wikipedia references" you mention? I'm I'm new around here myself, and would appreciate your assistance.
Seriously, all the gadgets and tech toys that kids have do not teach them how to read, write or count. They certainly don't help students in planning science projects, or recording, analyzing and interpreting test results. They only help the kids push buttons faster.
And to add insult to injury, Bush's edumakashunal program is making it worse. They should take away the testing and the toys, and let the teachers teach again.
"I thin[k] a backup, if possible should always be recommended."
Amen to that. Unless it is a vanilla install with no personal data at all, at least recommend the backup. If it is a business system with years worth of email, business letters, customer databases, and all that, perform the backup first. Even if it means removing the hard drive to put it into your own tech system. Don't even give an option of not backing it up before doing in depth work. At least 1 time in 100 the drive is actually at the end of its life, and will die before the reinstall finishes. And 01% is a low-endian guess, it is probably much more often.
Considering how many customers I have serviced that lost everything because their drive physically died, how is a backup not a standard procedure? The other part of this of course is that my regular customers have a backup system in place. I insist on it, they know I'm right, and it's not a problem.
"Definitely lots of stars here! And still NINE planets! :-)"
;^)
Wait a sec. How do you see all nine planets in the night sky?
Check it out, from the ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/
Can you believe that's what Bush is letting happen, and he claims he gives a damn.
Maybe your mother reads dictionaries. Here are a couple online ones.
http://www.answers.com/topic/unthaw
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unthaw
That's just how English is. On a related note, if you "bone a chicken", is it the opposite if you "debone a chicken"? Another pair of opposite-sounding synonyms is "ravel" and "unravel".
How many more are out there?
What makes you say that?
we see this used in CSI?
And Law & Order?
and CSI:Miami?
and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit?
and NCIS?
and Desperate Housewives?
and Law & Order: CI?
and OJ?
How come they are quoting Ayn Rand? What can she possibly say that's relevant?
/. . Seems kind of juvenile.
Maybe the editor just wants to start a flameware between Rand's supporters and opponents here on
The above comment is a joke. But I swear that the name I read while glancing at the submission.