A themeable installer? What the hell is the world coming to? That's just about as useless as the music in XP's setup (aside from the rest of XP's setup, which is useless as well).
My thoughts exactly... obviously the whole mess of legislation for backdoors (as a result of terrorist actions) had a fair amount of play in this decision.
Some companies (such as the one I work for) need their Java app to run on the Mac too. As I understand it, Java 2 support on the Mac is really poor (or nonexistent), at least until OS X.
And now there are rumors that Apple doesn't want to release any newer JREs (MRJ, whatever) for pre-OS X, so we're basically stuck with Java 1.1.8 or whatever was the latest.
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal."
Now tell me, how many geeks would have loved to sign up for that one "in the name of science"? The study could have been done with a lot more people if just one announcement had been made here on/....
This is not always a bad thing. I once fixed a bitchy NT server at school by punching the side. Hell, after a few days of trying to fix something, you kinda run out of ideas...
It left some nice knuckle impressions on the side though. Something for future geeks to remember me by.
At the piss-poor high school I went to in one of the many horrid school districts in CA, we somehow managed to get a lab full of P2-300s a few years ago. Whether we played Doom II, Quake 2, or whatever, each of us though he/she was the shit. Then we had the bright idea of letting the self-proclaimed-king-of-whatever-damn-game-us-lose rs-were-playing-at-lunch-time play on the computer which was hooked to a projector, obviously projecting on the front wall of the classroom. After all, if he's so good, shouldn't everyone else in lab get some sort of aid, ie. see where he's at and what he's up to?
I can't help but think how much more interesting those games would have been if we had done this. Everything was all set, but the teacher backed out at the last minute... something about "$500 bulbs" and "work to do"... whatever.
hmm, that might work... But then again, the shift key is higher than the ctrl key, so it is much easier to reach with my pinky. It can be done with minimal bending of the last digit, so it's ok.
Hell, I use Vi because I'm just too damn lazy to hit to keys at the same time, ie M-x.
It's not like Vi keeps me very productive either.. all I know is crap like cw, d5->, 2s, etc. Just enough to edit files decently, but still not enough to know how to delete an EOL without taking out a couple of letters along with it. That's when I become really pathetic and drop out to pico, then go back to Vi.
If I remember right, the Windows Authorization crap has already been cracked (could be wrong).
However, Corporate edition does not need registration, only a serial. I can verify this, as I've tried it. Enter your serial, listen to the music during the configuration (yep...), and you're off. It does prompt you for registration, but it's not required, which makes sense for a "Corporate" environment.
But who's to stop a home user from using a copy made from work? I certainly couldn't tell that this was meant for the office; even when I knew it was labeled Corporate.
I guess I have a pretty damn fun job.. I work at a small software company (15-20 people), and since we never have any customers showing up at our place, it's mostly an anything-goes type of environment. Nerf guns, loud music w/ subs, MP3s of Chris Rock's acts... anything that won't lead to us getting sued.
In the midst of all this, I manage to program and admin the place along with a few friends.
And no, we're not a to-be-dot-bomb, we've been in business for just over 10 years and have a well established customer base.
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No reason not to shorten it into one command: a simple 'strings wordDoc.doc | less' will do it.
A themeable installer? What the hell is the world coming to? That's just about as useless as the music in XP's setup (aside from the rest of XP's setup, which is useless as well).
What's "wacky" is Mazda's whack ass "zoom zoom" campaign.
It's retarded enough alone, even if you don't realize that the only car Mazda currently produces that can be called "sporty" at all is the Miata.
I wanna punch that damn kid in his mouth. He better keep off the streets, or at least "zoom zoom" away if I see him.
Be careful of what you say around here, you've already probably broken some obscure language's ebook encryption routine!
My thoughts exactly... obviously the whole mess of legislation for backdoors (as a result of terrorist actions) had a fair amount of play in this decision.
Hell, if ROT13 is good enough for ebooks, why isn't it good enough for you?
Or you could just ROT26 your stuff. The ease-of-use factor sure beats anything else.
Could be like that craaazy "dark matter" stuff from Futurama. "Every pound of it weighs 10,000 pounds!"
Some companies (such as the one I work for) need their Java app to run on the Mac too. As I understand it, Java 2 support on the Mac is really poor (or nonexistent), at least until OS X.
And now there are rumors that Apple doesn't want to release any newer JREs (MRJ, whatever) for pre-OS X, so we're basically stuck with Java 1.1.8 or whatever was the latest.
An American stuck with a foreign toy? Dude, you got gypped!
Sure you have, it's the newest creation of that wacky South Park scientist... just like his monkey with 4 asses!
My loser ass hasn't even seen all of the first one..
ok, these damn emoticons are getting out of hand... I'm not sure what the hell is going on in that one.
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal."
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Now tell me, how many geeks would have loved to sign up for that one "in the name of science"? The study could have been done with a lot more people if just one announcement had been made here on
This is not always a bad thing. I once fixed a bitchy NT server at school by punching the side. Hell, after a few days of trying to fix something, you kinda run out of ideas...
It left some nice knuckle impressions on the side though. Something for future geeks to remember me by.
You forgot the most obvious one of all:
Microsoft Works.
It's kind of tough to slashdot google : )
Is that challenge?
my email name is latin, look it up
What the hell does a lack of breasts have to do with Latin...?
Amusing... but subwoofers "hit". Unless they _hit hard_, in which case they knock. When they're _knockin somethin crazy_, they're pounding.
At the piss-poor high school I went to in one of the many horrid school districts in CA, we somehow managed to get a lab full of P2-300s a few years ago. Whether we played Doom II, Quake 2, or whatever, each of us though he/she was the shit. Then we had the bright idea of letting the self-proclaimed-king-of-whatever-damn-game-us-lose rs-were-playing-at-lunch-time play on the computer which was hooked to a projector, obviously projecting on the front wall of the classroom. After all, if he's so good, shouldn't everyone else in lab get some sort of aid, ie. see where he's at and what he's up to?
I can't help but think how much more interesting those games would have been if we had done this. Everything was all set, but the teacher backed out at the last minute... something about "$500 bulbs" and "work to do"... whatever.
No, it was "Imagine a beowulf cluster of mail servers!"
hmm, that might work... But then again, the shift key is higher than the ctrl key, so it is much easier to reach with my pinky. It can be done with minimal bending of the last digit, so it's ok.
Hell, I use Vi because I'm just too damn lazy to hit to keys at the same time, ie M-x.
It's not like Vi keeps me very productive either.. all I know is crap like cw, d5->, 2s, etc. Just enough to edit files decently, but still not enough to know how to delete an EOL without taking out a couple of letters along with it. That's when I become really pathetic and drop out to pico, then go back to Vi.
This would probably be due in large part to --enable-objprelink, a prelinker that IIRC gets rid of a lot of symbol redirections.
Also, I don't think KDE2.2.1's memory usage has been reduced much, if at all. If you like, theres an analysis of KDE memory usage on dot.kde.org.
If I remember right, the Windows Authorization crap has already been cracked (could be wrong).
However, Corporate edition does not need registration, only a serial. I can verify this, as I've tried it. Enter your serial, listen to the music during the configuration (yep...), and you're off. It does prompt you for registration, but it's not required, which makes sense for a "Corporate" environment.
But who's to stop a home user from using a copy made from work? I certainly couldn't tell that this was meant for the office; even when I knew it was labeled Corporate.
I guess I have a pretty damn fun job.. I work at a small software company (15-20 people), and since we never have any customers showing up at our place, it's mostly an anything-goes type of environment. Nerf guns, loud music w/ subs, MP3s of Chris Rock's acts... anything that won't lead to us getting sued.
In the midst of all this, I manage to program and admin the place along with a few friends.
And no, we're not a to-be-dot-bomb, we've been in business for just over 10 years and have a well established customer base.