Since your ankle is keeping you from walking, have you considered hitting the track in a wheelchair?
That sounds bad, but hear me out:
I have an uncle who only has 1 leg. He hops most places, even though he has a prosthetic to wear to business meetings, etc.
He gets his cardio from a wheelchair. He runs all over his subdivision in it and I have seen him when he gets through with his "run". He is red-faced and sweating and can hardly move, says he gets the same endorphin rush that most people get after a good sprint.
Yeah man I feel ya, Ubuntu is getting a little bloated.
8.04 seems to do pretty well, haven't had much experience with 9.04 since both my graphical machines use onboard Intel gfx.
I would go back to Debian but when I evangelize Ubuntu to Windows users they always ask if I run it myself and if I say "no, I run Debian" it makes them a little wary.
Still run Debian on the file server and the print server though. Ubuntu as a server didn't really feel right.
As long as you don't use scp to transfer files, a 486 makes a handy file server or print server.
I started into Linux with Debian 1.3 on a 386-25 with 8 megs of RAM and a 20 meg hard drive back in 1997. By 1998 had graduated up to Debian 2.0 on a 486-33 with 16 megs of RAM and a 50 meg hard drive.
Wouldn't it be a trip to take your 486 and put an older version of Linux on it, and use it for a print server?
You aren't likely to run Linux on XT hardware, youngster.
No offense, son, but how old are you exactly?
Have you ever used an original PC?
You might want to hit up a secondhand store and pick up a super-old dinosaur of a machine and try to get it running. It could be beneficial to you. Imagine you are 20-something sitting in a meeting with some older IT types and one of them mentions a TRS-80 or their old TI-994A, and you not only can follow some of what they are saying but you have a machine from the same era sitting at home, which you let them know that you bought to get a better understanding about what today's systems come from.
Now instead of being seen as some snotnose, you are "one of the guys" with potential for advancement.
To be fair to you and your friend, neither of you had any local knowledge to destroy-- that's why you both needed the GPS. What was missing that we used to use was a set of turn by turn directions on paper which you could read to him over the phone when he called.
Very true.
Everyone should carry a Road Atlas in the car, and if they spend any significant amount of time in a certain city or county they should purchase a local area map. Most convenience stores carry them. The best places to find local maps AFAIK are truckstops, convenience stores, and the local Chamber of Commerce.
Having said that, when I get a call from a prospective client I do use Google Maps to find the address. Then the printout of the map goes into the client list folder with the client's info written on the back of the map page.
Some sort of hard limit on the size of borrowed snippets that are use in conjunction with links seems reasonable. Banning links seems sort of short-sighted.
If nobody links to news, how do the corporate news sites get readership? By purchasing ad space on other websites, television, radio, etc. and drawing from the current online readership as well?
It isn't a matter of education so much as it is a matter of motivation.
Young people coming up these days have a sense of entitlement, as though because they have a diploma then they are somehow owed a job in their chosen field.
Become competent in a few areas outside computer tech; learn and practice things that will give you confidence about your abilities.
Martial arts is one; as you progress, it naturally gives you more confidence.
"Hey cutie, I see that you are tired of the intricacies of GRUB and modprobe... wanna see me do some karate?"
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Thank you for your contribution to the cause.
We'll get Stallman on it right away.
As speculated a few weeks ago, NASA has found and is starting to redact the lost Apollo 11 tapes.
There, fixed that for ya.
Since your ankle is keeping you from walking, have you considered hitting the track in a wheelchair?
That sounds bad, but hear me out:
I have an uncle who only has 1 leg. He hops most places, even though he has a prosthetic to wear to business meetings, etc.
He gets his cardio from a wheelchair. He runs all over his subdivision in it and I have seen him when he gets through with his "run". He is red-faced and sweating and can hardly move, says he gets the same endorphin rush that most people get after a good sprint.
Just a thought.
Sounds like you need to reset your thyroid. I think the massive amounts of chemicals in food may have knocked your body chemistry out of whack.
Check out the Kevin Trudeau book "Natural Cures".
You can get it from Amazon.com for 1 cent with $3.99 shipping:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0975599518/ref=sr_1_olp_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247490143&sr=8-2
Yeah it has some infomercial-sounding crap in it, but there is a lot of good info as well.
Diet coke?
Aspartame is the sweetener in that stuff. Aspartame makes people fat and stupid.
http://nukesylo13.com/component/content/article/21-health/1337-artificial-sweeteners-can-make-you-sick-and-fat
Fat people: don't drink diet drinks. Not diet coke or crystal light or any of that crap.
VB.Net?
That is... uh... oddly appropriate.
hhehehhehehehehhehehhehHEHHEHEHHEHHEhehehhe
Oh wow, man.
http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-lolcode-1544.html
That is frikkin' hilarious.
I was in the U.S. Navy from age 18 to age 20 and did copious amounts of drinking in foreign ports.
Nobody gave a shit about it as long as I made morning muster on time.
Got a list of supported cards?
Moved one of the desktop machines to 9.04 a few months ago and it looked promising, but the gfx were so slow it forced me back to 8.04
If 9.04 supports the 810 Intel chip I am SO there.
Yeah man I feel ya, Ubuntu is getting a little bloated.
8.04 seems to do pretty well, haven't had much experience with 9.04 since both my graphical machines use onboard Intel gfx.
I would go back to Debian but when I evangelize Ubuntu to Windows users they always ask if I run it myself and if I say "no, I run Debian" it makes them a little wary.
Still run Debian on the file server and the print server though. Ubuntu as a server didn't really feel right.
Right.
But manual systems are good to have when the automated system goes out.
Not IF it goes out, but WHEN it goes out.
Haven't you ever heard of RMS?
As long as you don't use scp to transfer files, a 486 makes a handy file server or print server.
I started into Linux with Debian 1.3 on a 386-25 with 8 megs of RAM and a 20 meg hard drive back in 1997. By 1998 had graduated up to Debian 2.0 on a 486-33 with 16 megs of RAM and a 50 meg hard drive.
Wouldn't it be a trip to take your 486 and put an older version of Linux on it, and use it for a print server?
You aren't likely to run Linux on XT hardware, youngster.
No offense, son, but how old are you exactly?
Have you ever used an original PC?
You might want to hit up a secondhand store and pick up a super-old dinosaur of a machine and try to get it running. It could be beneficial to you. Imagine you are 20-something sitting in a meeting with some older IT types and one of them mentions a TRS-80 or their old TI-994A, and you not only can follow some of what they are saying but you have a machine from the same era sitting at home, which you let them know that you bought to get a better understanding about what today's systems come from.
Now instead of being seen as some snotnose, you are "one of the guys" with potential for advancement.
Thrift stores.
You should check out thrift stores.
I see 5 1/4 inch floppy disks in those places all the time. Cheap.
You let your boos into the data centre?
You cheeky monkey.
To be fair to you and your friend, neither of you had any local knowledge to destroy-- that's why you both needed the GPS. What was missing that we used to use was a set of turn by turn directions on paper which you could read to him over the phone when he called.
Very true.
Everyone should carry a Road Atlas in the car, and if they spend any significant amount of time in a certain city or county they should purchase a local area map. Most convenience stores carry them. The best places to find local maps AFAIK are truckstops, convenience stores, and the local Chamber of Commerce.
Having said that, when I get a call from a prospective client I do use Google Maps to find the address. Then the printout of the map goes into the client list folder with the client's info written on the back of the map page.
Get off his lawn you damned kids!
Man, I tried to watch The Lone Gunmen, and I have to say...
the show was painful.
Really fucking painful.
Some sort of hard limit on the size of borrowed snippets that are use in conjunction with links seems reasonable. Banning links seems sort of short-sighted.
If nobody links to news, how do the corporate news sites get readership? By purchasing ad space on other websites, television, radio, etc. and drawing from the current online readership as well?
Is this some sort of funneling process?
Just remember, each time you do it, that it demonstrates your insecurity and is a reminder of the impotence of your passive aggressive existence.
Also it means that he has a small wiener, and his Druid will never make it past 10th level.
If anyone has a big box of working 128 meg and 256 meg thumb drives to sell, please email larryish-near-gmail-dot-com
I am willing to pay on delivery, or trade out some tasty bits and bobs that I have in the workshop.
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I need a few dozen small USB sticks for an electronics project and haven't been able to find any on eBay.
What is their attitude in regards to encrypted tunnels?
Oh, c'mon man, it is too about Xenu, isn't it?
Just a little bit?
It isn't a matter of education so much as it is a matter of motivation.
Young people coming up these days have a sense of entitlement, as though because they have a diploma then they are somehow owed a job in their chosen field.
Become competent in a few areas outside computer tech; learn and practice things that will give you confidence about your abilities.
Martial arts is one; as you progress, it naturally gives you more confidence.
"Hey cutie, I see that you are tired of the intricacies of GRUB and modprobe... wanna see me do some karate?"