You're being reasonable. You must stop this immediately. It is against the Slashdot Terms of Service with regards to any political or ethical discussion (hereafter referred to as "flame war").
Need to simultaneously create lots of little rectangles with greenish textures and large numbers after a '$'. Guaranteed to make everything you say fascinating to her.
It's kind of funny as I had had a C64 and a 386 previously, but they were just machines. Installing Linux on a whitebox just opened up a whole world of possibility.
In the 1997th year, much Quaking was being done by myself, a young 2ltnapalm. I fragged and it was good. Yet not all was well in the land of the rocket launcher. There was this fell beast, Windows 95, which ever was watchful for any joy in the world, existing only to bring the blue hell to the screens of the earth.
"Surely, there cannot be this misery alone for the computers of the earth. For in the earlier days of home computing I cast off Windows 3.0, who was then but a pretender operating system, for DOS 5. But Windows has grown more ambitious if not more useful and its infection spreads wide and no retreat to DOS does it permit. Tell me, Quakers, are their no alternatives to this dreck? And speak not of MacOS, for it is a joke."
Out of the depths of IRC, from the servers of EFNet, the oracles of #quake did speak.
"Linux. For it is stable and the Carmack has decreed that Quake shall run upon it with joy in its heart."
"Carmack the Wise is a powerful programmer and much does he understand. Hark, I shall give this Linux thing a shot."
To the merchant Computer City, I did go and they had a boxed copy of Red Hat 4.2 (if my memory does not betray me) which I did buy. Upon returning to my abode, I did begin preparations for the installation upon my whitebox. Partitioning was simple enough. The choices which one needed to make were not difficult, but to one who was but yet a pup it, it was so foreign. Eventually, perseverance and much RTMFing did triumph. Linux was installed. But one other thing must be done. X.
Many were the incantations invoked and the curses hurled due to X. Long days were spent editing text and typing that accursed startx only to find my work in vain. And yet did I endure for I knew that Windows 95 was cackling in the darkness of Redmond, awaiting my defeat to consume my soul should I fail and never again would I be able to hold my head high amongst the geeks of the realm.
Always teetering on the edge of disaster, but never managing to destroy my machine (which the pages of man ensured me was possible), I one day found something new. Something unexpected. For after messing with mode lines and color depths and other things arcane, startx worked. A graphical user interface was mine!
"My heart doth rejoice in this success! I shall install Window Maker and Enlightenment and many others besides so that I may never be bored with the look and feel of this machine, for that is the crowning glory of this victory: I can have any UI I desire."
Feeling very pleased with myself, I looked over all I surveyed with great confidence, yet the victory was not mine alone. For this unnamed box had endured much in the trials of installation. Yes. "Endured much beyond the reckoning of the typical home computer," said I, "and not just endured, but thrived and in the coming days shall have many challenges to overcome, so henceforth let this machine be known as tankgirl!"
Many were the adventures of tankgirl and, now, ltnapalm. Running a website over a cable modem, a MySQL database server, and numerous other tasks that tankgirl did perform, singing all the while with her K6 233 and 128 megabytes of RAM. In time, helper machines were obtained so that less interesting tasks tankgirl would not have to do herself, for her processing time was valuable and wasted on other tasks. A 486 there was, scorned by many as out of date and useless, now raised from its nadir to its apex with Linux installed and became a mighty wall of fire, shielding the local area network from the depredations of script kiddies and other wearers of the black hat of crackerdom.
Many were the nooks and crannies that cptnapalm and tankgirl delved into together, from dabbling in C programming and shell scripting to kernel compilation and switching to Debian. Together we witnessed the horrors of sendmail.cf and learned the mysteries of bind. And Quake there was, of course, too.
After long years, time did takes its toll and its toll was death. Impoverishment prevente
Not just regular users anymore, it seems. Look at the hordes of slashdot posters that are on the shiny train. Perhaps it should be News for Mom, Stuff that's Pretty.
As a certified Windows hater (took the test and everything), I get annoyed when somebody does this sort of thing (l33n00x 1z da ZuxxorZ m0ore) and I get irritated with it here too.
If Ubuntu has some rough spots, okay. What can be done? How about this solution or that? Nobody will attempt to craft a better mousetrap if everyone spends their time denigrating another brand of mousetrap.
We here at slashdot are more interested in technical details (the utility of bathtubs for bloodletting activities) rather than being judgmental (human sacrifice is teh 3vEEL).
With the drastic increase in processor power has brought with it the increasing usefulness of powerful, higher level languages which are more expressive and require less time for development.
The kicker is that it isn't just the one program that is doing this: the whole software system seems to be headed in that direction. The net result is that everything, from the users standpoint, are either staying the same or performance appears to even be decreasing.
If it is relatively cheap, then ok, cool. The President wants a Blackberry and it won't be too expensive. No problem.
But that isn't what it sounds like. Take months? How many man hours at what price per hour will be required so he can read his fan mail now instead of 30 minutes later? If the price is going to be exorbitant and this is little more than a vanity item, then no. Just no.
"a group of friends doesn't want to grind, they want to play together"
WoW has 11.5 million players that would, perhaps, disagree.
I don't though.
Since you mentioned cut scenes, I have come to hate them. I never bothered finishing Metal Gear Solid 4 because I got so thoroughly sick of the damn things.
Yes because "I've yet to see a case anywhere in the US barring prayer in school" was not in the original post at ALL! And obviously this guy was not in a school! Nor was there any banning of prayer in school whatsoever!
Oh, don't be such a drama queen. If you really think that you can get from non-government schools to families begging in the streets then you are a living argument against the current educational system. Lay off the Kool-Aid.
Seeing how enormous the industry is for protecting Windows users from others and themselves is, not to mention the "make it go" industry, and not even hinting at the myriad hordes of "my bestest friend! Fix my computer, please!" requests, I'd have to doubt the the "bigger one" assumption.
Missed the poster bit. My fault. That would be proselytizing, I agree.
But the rest of it still stands: he is barred from reading the Bible, to himself while students are doing something else. I fail to see how that ruling does not violate his rights.
"I've yet to see a case anywhere in the US barring prayer in school." This was what I responding to. I thought I had quoted this bit, but I see that I did not.
Example: My home wireless network, Ubuntu and OpenBSD were painless. Solaris had some intital configuration problems and, when I still dual booted, Windows never ever worked.
I hate word processors, so I'll offer no opinion aside from stating that (with the exception of lyx), every word processor doc I've ever seen has looked like crap. Lyx uses LaTex, so it looks nice.
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What is most awesome about this post is that it only took TWO minutes between someone asking for a Klingon translation and one being provided.
You're being reasonable. You must stop this immediately. It is against the Slashdot Terms of Service with regards to any political or ethical discussion (hereafter referred to as "flame war").
Solution is simple: stop exporting Mountain Dew!
"We haven't fought a conventional war in 50 years."
There were those two wars against Saddam Hussein (I put it this way to distinguish the initial part of the Iraq War from the counter-insurgent part).
Need to simultaneously create lots of little rectangles with greenish textures and large numbers after a '$'. Guaranteed to make everything you say fascinating to her.
It's kind of funny as I had had a C64 and a 386 previously, but they were just machines. Installing Linux on a whitebox just opened up a whole world of possibility.
Have at it :)
It is in the .wine folder in your home directory :)
In the 1997th year, much Quaking was being done by myself, a young 2ltnapalm. I fragged and it was good. Yet not all was well in the land of the rocket launcher. There was this fell beast, Windows 95, which ever was watchful for any joy in the world, existing only to bring the blue hell to the screens of the earth.
"Surely, there cannot be this misery alone for the computers of the earth. For in the earlier days of home computing I cast off Windows 3.0, who was then but a pretender operating system, for DOS 5. But Windows has grown more ambitious if not more useful and its infection spreads wide and no retreat to DOS does it permit. Tell me, Quakers, are their no alternatives to this dreck? And speak not of MacOS, for it is a joke."
Out of the depths of IRC, from the servers of EFNet, the oracles of #quake did speak.
"Linux. For it is stable and the Carmack has decreed that Quake shall run upon it with joy in its heart."
"Carmack the Wise is a powerful programmer and much does he understand. Hark, I shall give this Linux thing a shot."
To the merchant Computer City, I did go and they had a boxed copy of Red Hat 4.2 (if my memory does not betray me) which I did buy. Upon returning to my abode, I did begin preparations for the installation upon my whitebox. Partitioning was simple enough. The choices which one needed to make were not difficult, but to one who was but yet a pup it, it was so foreign. Eventually, perseverance and much RTMFing did triumph. Linux was installed. But one other thing must be done. X.
Many were the incantations invoked and the curses hurled due to X. Long days were spent editing text and typing that accursed startx only to find my work in vain. And yet did I endure for I knew that Windows 95 was cackling in the darkness of Redmond, awaiting my defeat to consume my soul should I fail and never again would I be able to hold my head high amongst the geeks of the realm.
Always teetering on the edge of disaster, but never managing to destroy my machine (which the pages of man ensured me was possible), I one day found something new. Something unexpected. For after messing with mode lines and color depths and other things arcane, startx worked. A graphical user interface was mine!
"My heart doth rejoice in this success! I shall install Window Maker and Enlightenment and many others besides so that I may never be bored with the look and feel of this machine, for that is the crowning glory of this victory: I can have any UI I desire."
Feeling very pleased with myself, I looked over all I surveyed with great confidence, yet the victory was not mine alone. For this unnamed box had endured much in the trials of installation. Yes. "Endured much beyond the reckoning of the typical home computer," said I, "and not just endured, but thrived and in the coming days shall have many challenges to overcome, so henceforth let this machine be known as tankgirl!"
Many were the adventures of tankgirl and, now, ltnapalm. Running a website over a cable modem, a MySQL database server, and numerous other tasks that tankgirl did perform, singing all the while with her K6 233 and 128 megabytes of RAM. In time, helper machines were obtained so that less interesting tasks tankgirl would not have to do herself, for her processing time was valuable and wasted on other tasks. A 486 there was, scorned by many as out of date and useless, now raised from its nadir to its apex with Linux installed and became a mighty wall of fire, shielding the local area network from the depredations of script kiddies and other wearers of the black hat of crackerdom.
Many were the nooks and crannies that cptnapalm and tankgirl delved into together, from dabbling in C programming and shell scripting to kernel compilation and switching to Debian. Together we witnessed the horrors of sendmail.cf and learned the mysteries of bind. And Quake there was, of course, too.
After long years, time did takes its toll and its toll was death. Impoverishment prevente
Not just regular users anymore, it seems. Look at the hordes of slashdot posters that are on the shiny train. Perhaps it should be News for Mom, Stuff that's Pretty.
As a certified Windows hater (took the test and everything), I get annoyed when somebody does this sort of thing (l33n00x 1z da ZuxxorZ m0ore) and I get irritated with it here too.
If Ubuntu has some rough spots, okay. What can be done? How about this solution or that? Nobody will attempt to craft a better mousetrap if everyone spends their time denigrating another brand of mousetrap.
We here at slashdot are more interested in technical details (the utility of bathtubs for bloodletting activities) rather than being judgmental (human sacrifice is teh 3vEEL).
With the drastic increase in processor power has brought with it the increasing usefulness of powerful, higher level languages which are more expressive and require less time for development.
The kicker is that it isn't just the one program that is doing this: the whole software system seems to be headed in that direction. The net result is that everything, from the users standpoint, are either staying the same or performance appears to even be decreasing.
Of course, I'm just talking out of my ass.
If it is relatively cheap, then ok, cool. The President wants a Blackberry and it won't be too expensive. No problem.
But that isn't what it sounds like. Take months? How many man hours at what price per hour will be required so he can read his fan mail now instead of 30 minutes later? If the price is going to be exorbitant and this is little more than a vanity item, then no. Just no.
"a group of friends doesn't want to grind, they want to play together"
WoW has 11.5 million players that would, perhaps, disagree.
I don't though.
Since you mentioned cut scenes, I have come to hate them. I never bothered finishing Metal Gear Solid 4 because I got so thoroughly sick of the damn things.
"If you like it better than Windows I'll eat my own ass."
I like it better than Windows. Do you need a napkin?
"She would have freaked if she'd ever found out."
That you did go insane, dress up in plate mail and jump off a building? :)
BTW, your sig is funny as hell.
Yes because "I've yet to see a case anywhere in the US barring prayer in school" was not in the original post at ALL! And obviously this guy was not in a school! Nor was there any banning of prayer in school whatsoever!
Oh, don't be such a drama queen. If you really think that you can get from non-government schools to families begging in the streets then you are a living argument against the current educational system. Lay off the Kool-Aid.
I was wondering how long it would take before someone took the bait ;)
Seeing how enormous the industry is for protecting Windows users from others and themselves is, not to mention the "make it go" industry, and not even hinting at the myriad hordes of "my bestest friend! Fix my computer, please!" requests, I'd have to doubt the the "bigger one" assumption.
That's what the company bathroom is for :)
I should probably post this anonymously... but I like living on the edge!
Missed the poster bit. My fault. That would be proselytizing, I agree.
But the rest of it still stands: he is barred from reading the Bible, to himself while students are doing something else. I fail to see how that ruling does not violate his rights.
"I've yet to see a case anywhere in the US barring prayer in school." This was what I responding to. I thought I had quoted this bit, but I see that I did not.
I prefer Glock products myself, unless there scalability is a problem, in which case I go for Kalashnikov.
Wireless networks are kinda funny like that.
Example: My home wireless network, Ubuntu and OpenBSD were painless. Solaris had some intital configuration problems and, when I still dual booted, Windows never ever worked.
I hate word processors, so I'll offer no opinion aside from stating that (with the exception of lyx), every word processor doc I've ever seen has looked like crap. Lyx uses LaTex, so it looks nice.