Got a regular Avatar DVD and it won't play on either of my DVD players or one of my PC drives. It will play on one other computer DVD drive - if I want to watch it on a 12 inch screen.
Seriously... the fact that asshats like Glenn Beck have appropriated the word "libertarian" to describe paranoid (and often racist) morons who don't want to pay taxes doesn't make them actual libertarians. I suspect that most of the "libertarians" this article refers to are also against gay marriage, immigration, and legalizing drugs, hate the ACLU, and support domestic spying and Guantanamo torture camps.
This article is shit.
How many people install a distro with PulseAudio, then disable it? I one of the first things I do on a new Fedora install is rip out PulseAudio. I know many many other people who do the same. Just because some Linux flavor "adopts" it and installs it by default, you can't assume that everyone using those distros actually uses the piece of crap.
...for people who write sequels to series they didn't write: LAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!
This bastard, the bastards behind the new Dune and Amber books, all of 'em. Write your own shit, you parasitic hacks.
If only there were a way to wipe all the data on a drive and re-use the hardware... derrrrp! I guess throwing away stuff that can still be useful is the American way though, and this would be a fun toy.
Well the only fool proof way to make popcorn is to nuke it. To see if your computer is part of a botnet, just run the totally amazing software from FinallyFast.com. I've heard that iamhigh is Mario Dinis and there's proof of him fucking his sister Lucy in some photos taken by an ISS astronaut in orbit.
Better?
All the slowness of a bicycle without any of those nasty health benefits, plus it burns electricity. Move slow, stay fat, and waste environmental resources... America! FUCK YEAH!!
The pictures have been around for a while anyway... and as already pointed out by many, it's a pretty bogus test with about as much science behind it as reading hot wax dropped in cold water.
Never seen the point in old PCs myself since they're just wimpy Intel systems... but I do a lot with old Amiga, Commodore, Atari and other machines.
Disks - you can find cheap newly made floppies in older formats (5.15" or 3.5" in double or single density). Search around or ask on http://www.vintage-computer.com/ forums or some of the good Amiga oriented web forums, you'll get a ton of sources depending on where you live. Many sources in the US and Europe. Avoid buying old/reused floppies if possible, and copy as much of your old disks to new disks as you can. You can probably find an old IDE controller for it easily too. Remember old hard drives are less reliable so do backups often.
OS - you can find old MSDOS disks on ebay I'm sure. You may also want to consider the free clone FreeDOS.
Yellowing - there's some peroxide based cream someone came up with to restore color to yellowed plastic. See http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
I can honestly say that things worked much better that way, and wasn't significantly harder. Also, if things misbehaved, it was much easier to figure out why. Firefox recently started acting almost unusably slow on my Fedora system, even though I haven't changed anything. Quite often it freezes to the point that the only fix is killall -9 firefox-bin. I assume some yum auto-update changed something, hell if I know what though. Doing it by hand, if you upgrade/modify some software and then things start breaking, you've at least got a solid idea where to start looking.
I began using Slackware back when the shiny new Linux kernel was 0.95a and used Slackware until about 1996 or early 1997 when I switched to RedHat. I was a huge fan of RedHat and the first few Fedoras, but with newer releases, they seem to be focusing on making a Winux system for dummies and put more effort into making snazzy looking desktop environments and writing clunky inefficient GUIs for simple systems tasks. The systems aren't as reliable as they used to be, you get all kinds of garbage dependencies and badly configured packages. I haven't put anything newer than FC8 on my home systems, but I installed Fedora 10 on a work system last year. I wash my hands of this crap. I don't know what distro I'll use next, but I'm not installing any flavor of RedHat again on any of my systems.
So, put up some porn. Grab a camera and your spouse/partner/neighbor/sibling and you'll be raking in the dough in no time! Selling Viagra is also a good use for a domain.
If you have to ask what to do with one... why did you get it? I've had a personal domain for many years now and it runs my web server (Apache on a Linux server in my living room) and I use it for personal email too. I've got all sorts of things on the web server. It sounds to me like you bought a domain name just because you thought it would be cool, even though you don't have any actual use for it. Maybe you should save your money and let the domain name go to someone who has an actual use for it. As it is, it sounds like you're basically just a cyber squatter. Lame.
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Got a regular Avatar DVD and it won't play on either of my DVD players or one of my PC drives. It will play on one other computer DVD drive - if I want to watch it on a 12 inch screen.
Seriously... the fact that asshats like Glenn Beck have appropriated the word "libertarian" to describe paranoid (and often racist) morons who don't want to pay taxes doesn't make them actual libertarians. I suspect that most of the "libertarians" this article refers to are also against gay marriage, immigration, and legalizing drugs, hate the ACLU, and support domestic spying and Guantanamo torture camps. This article is shit.
Stop getting your definition of libertarian from Glenn Beck. Those people aren't libertarians, they're just Republicans who don't want to pay taxes.
How many people install a distro with PulseAudio, then disable it? I one of the first things I do on a new Fedora install is rip out PulseAudio. I know many many other people who do the same. Just because some Linux flavor "adopts" it and installs it by default, you can't assume that everyone using those distros actually uses the piece of crap.
The old computer-in-keyboard idea that Commodore, Atari, Tandy etc had was a pretty good one. Glad to see a return.
10 and 12, teenagers? Uhm... not on this planet.
Just give 'em all leprosy!
...for people who write sequels to series they didn't write: LAAAAAAAAAAAAAME! This bastard, the bastards behind the new Dune and Amber books, all of 'em. Write your own shit, you parasitic hacks.
If only there were a way to wipe all the data on a drive and re-use the hardware... derrrrp! I guess throwing away stuff that can still be useful is the American way though, and this would be a fun toy.
Well the only fool proof way to make popcorn is to nuke it. To see if your computer is part of a botnet, just run the totally amazing software from FinallyFast.com. I've heard that iamhigh is Mario Dinis and there's proof of him fucking his sister Lucy in some photos taken by an ISS astronaut in orbit. Better?
All the slowness of a bicycle without any of those nasty health benefits, plus it burns electricity. Move slow, stay fat, and waste environmental resources... America! FUCK YEAH!!
I guess the D in DJ stands for "Derp!" in this case.
The pictures have been around for a while anyway... and as already pointed out by many, it's a pretty bogus test with about as much science behind it as reading hot wax dropped in cold water.
Never seen the point in old PCs myself since they're just wimpy Intel systems... but I do a lot with old Amiga, Commodore, Atari and other machines. Disks - you can find cheap newly made floppies in older formats (5.15" or 3.5" in double or single density). Search around or ask on http://www.vintage-computer.com/ forums or some of the good Amiga oriented web forums, you'll get a ton of sources depending on where you live. Many sources in the US and Europe. Avoid buying old/reused floppies if possible, and copy as much of your old disks to new disks as you can. You can probably find an old IDE controller for it easily too. Remember old hard drives are less reliable so do backups often. OS - you can find old MSDOS disks on ebay I'm sure. You may also want to consider the free clone FreeDOS. Yellowing - there's some peroxide based cream someone came up with to restore color to yellowed plastic. See http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
Good to see the coolest language around being put to a(nother) cool use.
You know, this would be really easy to case mod into a microwave death ray. Cool.
I can honestly say that things worked much better that way, and wasn't significantly harder. Also, if things misbehaved, it was much easier to figure out why. Firefox recently started acting almost unusably slow on my Fedora system, even though I haven't changed anything. Quite often it freezes to the point that the only fix is killall -9 firefox-bin. I assume some yum auto-update changed something, hell if I know what though. Doing it by hand, if you upgrade/modify some software and then things start breaking, you've at least got a solid idea where to start looking.
I began using Slackware back when the shiny new Linux kernel was 0.95a and used Slackware until about 1996 or early 1997 when I switched to RedHat. I was a huge fan of RedHat and the first few Fedoras, but with newer releases, they seem to be focusing on making a Winux system for dummies and put more effort into making snazzy looking desktop environments and writing clunky inefficient GUIs for simple systems tasks. The systems aren't as reliable as they used to be, you get all kinds of garbage dependencies and badly configured packages. I haven't put anything newer than FC8 on my home systems, but I installed Fedora 10 on a work system last year. I wash my hands of this crap. I don't know what distro I'll use next, but I'm not installing any flavor of RedHat again on any of my systems.
So, put up some porn. Grab a camera and your spouse/partner/neighbor/sibling and you'll be raking in the dough in no time! Selling Viagra is also a good use for a domain.
If you have to ask what to do with one... why did you get it? I've had a personal domain for many years now and it runs my web server (Apache on a Linux server in my living room) and I use it for personal email too. I've got all sorts of things on the web server. It sounds to me like you bought a domain name just because you thought it would be cool, even though you don't have any actual use for it. Maybe you should save your money and let the domain name go to someone who has an actual use for it. As it is, it sounds like you're basically just a cyber squatter. Lame.
"Now look here, son... see, you don't need to be a martyr to get 70 virgins. Look here, type in 'www.virginteensluts.com' in that there white box..."
Oh no, terrorists... wahhhh. 9/11 was like 8 years ago, get over it dude.
Wikipedia is in league with Xenu!!!
No, no... Windows programmers actually ARE quite stupid.
Vim running on some kind of *nix system is the only IDE you need, and the best that exists.