Except that I can't stand these types of presentations. If the points were marked up as simple html they'd download about 5 million times faster.
These 'powerpoint' slides are a system admins worst nightmare once users start creating their web sites this way since the content tends to be about way bigger than it needs to be.
So I guess if you patched the kernel with e2compr you could easily archive about double that 5.2Gb on a single DVD-RAM. Wouldn't help for mp3 and the like but for uncompressed data it would be a pretty good backup format.
True people do smoke. People also drive pollution belching cars, eat food that will kill you over the course of a life-time (McDonalds, Coke, KFC,...) sit in front of the great glass teat (both of 'em) and any number of other idiotic pleasures.
Cigarettes were initially the target of a small but noisy group of people who didn't like them. It's true that the things kill you, but so do a myriad of other products that people use. Once that weirdo surgeon general Dr. Everett Kook got onto the anti-smoking bandwagon and conviced Ronnie Raygun to do the same the level of Government supported FUD exploded (along with the inherent hypocrasy of supporting the habit by way of benefitting from the taxation of the product.) Doesn't this situation strike anyone as being completely assbackwards? Shouldn't the government be funding anti-smoking campaigns with their tobacco derived revenues to try to prevent having to treat the goddamn associated disease in the first place?
So what's this got to do with the price of tea in china? Well, consider that it took nearly 100 years of the cigarette industry to be villified for their product. Christ, the American (and every other country) used to send smokes to the boys overseas in the first and second world wars. Perhaps that should make them culpable for the pain and suffering of the soldiers who became addicted and ended up dying from the effects of lung cancer, some as old as 90 years old!! (not to mention the effect of having their legs blown off).
Now imagine, since society is equally addicted to the use of cell phones (which I detest BTW), that they do in fact cause some minor cellular damage but only over the course of a lifetime so that the cancer of the skin or brain or hair or whatever of the user does not show up until they've used the product for 25 or 30 years. Sound familiar? Sure, but we have to wait 25 or 30 years to find out whether they really are "killers" and by then everyone will be so used to wearing one on their head that it will take another 25 or 30 or 50 years to convice civilization that maybe they shouldn't be doing this anymore.
One solution to this problem is to generate your own hydrogen at home. Of course you hydro bill is sure to go up a bit. This is one of the solutions that ballard power have proposed.
And there seems to be some success in dispelling the myth that hydrogen is dangerous. In fact it has been widely demonstrated that hydrogen is much safer than gas. Hydrogen is very volatile so when it burns it burns straight up. But gas spreads out over the ground and burns much more slowly, compared to hydrogen anyway. Besides that the health risks associated with gasolene delivery systems (the pump) would be eliminated with hydrogen.
The big car companies all have plans for fuel cell based vehicles in 2004 or 2005. When that happens you can bet that the adoption of this technology will explode, as did the widespread adoption of the internet with the advent of the web. And when those fuel cell vehicles come on the market I will end my boycott of automobile ownership, although I plan to continue to ride my bike to work!
After years of discussion IPv6 has been deprecated for the new IPv2000 recently announced by net fascists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinnovators Micro$oft. Micro$oft apologists worldwide welcomed the new proprietary closed source format... Chairman Bill announced that this innovation will ensure security for major corporations, who are the only ones who facking matter anyway ya bunch of whiners.
You nailed that one on the head. Mind you they *did* finally make WordPerfect work after the previous fiascos by WordPerfect and Novell. Although one must install several 50Mb 'patches' to get their programs up to spec. And Quattro is a much nicer program than Excel.
One thing that you forgot to mention is that Cowpland is a moron.
I'm in a very similar situation to this guy. I have a business 'enregistre' ici au Quebec. My computers are here were I do my development work but my weg site is hosted in the Yew Ess. I have a hard enough time documenting my stuff in Hinglish let alone translating it into that near dead norman tongue called french. Christ if the language trou-de-cous in quebec stopped and looked at hinglish for just 15 fucking seconds they'd soon realise that hinglish is composed of about 75% french derived vocabulary anyway.
If the fucking OLF shows up on my doorstep I'm going to stop operating my business in Quebec and stop giving the fascist fuckwits over 10 grand a year in taxes. Then I'll setup the business in my parents spare room in Ontario and have them send me a cash gift once in a while. They'll probably appreciate the extra income more than the language fascists in Quebec.
At least the Canadian media is reporting on something outside of your happy little land.
My favourite 'This hour has 22 minutes' sendup has Rick Mercer going to American Ivy League universities and asking all and sunder about current issues like the Canadian cultural tradition of setting their old afloat on ice flows in the Artic Ocean. Some of the responses are priceless.
No, but really, I love you guys south of the border (BTW, we're on the north bit, Mexico is the other one.)
Sorry, but this kind of thing is just plain mean spirited. I could buy a car and soup it up so that it would run much faster than a stock engine and the automakers don't really care. It's not like they're putting governors on their cars to limit their speed.
And overclocking is not without risks, and thus cost. I'll bet there are lots of overclockers out there with fried chip stories. Crisps?
Right on brother! And as a further point, imagine what you'd be paying to IBM or Micro$oft for one year's support. Xrist, to keep IIS going for one year you'd have to pay at least one MSCE at least $25,000!
No, but the prospect of wittle cutesy wutesy Disney type big-eyed ever happy never sad, except when someone else isn't happy, characters showing up on Apple's line of cutesy wutesy, happy coloured fruit line of computers might be just a little more scary.
Actually, I quite like the latest line of Macs, even though I find interface unusable, it's just that the nicest models are the grey 'uns and for this 'option' you get to pay through the nose.
Which translates as "big dumb uglyass buttons with goofball cutesy icons". This was one of the most annoying aspects of early versions of programs running on Windoze. The one I recall being most annoying was an early version of <shudder>Norton Utilities </shudder> and a button about 2" square with a picture of a partially open (closed?) door and an exit sign...
There are two ways of thinking. Your way (wrong) and mine (right).
BTW, the corporations had very little to do with the fucking internet. Corporations ignored the burgeoning PC market for years before they realised what was at stake. Corporations are not to be cuddled. Because they will cut your damn head off to get what they want. Money and power.
I'm not a Linux lover. I think it has a long long way to go before the mainstream starts to take it seriously. There are so many problems with it right now..installing programs, removing them, x windows interface complexity, simple text editors..the list goes on. Honestly, I don't think it will ever become mainstream - it will get replaced by something else that will before long.
You're not a Linux lover, which is enough to explain that you don't know what the fsck you're talking about. Installations in RedHat, for example, are fast, easy and reversible. Installations in Windoze are slow (how much longer do you think the redmond people can make the creation of a single 'shortcut' take?) and incredibly time consuming. How often have you seen the 'time to reboot!' prompt? I've upgraded 20 RedHat rpm's on a production machine in less than 2 minutes and did not require a reboot. Install Windoze and reboot 10 or 15 times just to patch the OS to a workable level. Install Office97 and its two monster patches and watch one hour crawl by.
I'm not a Linux zealot, but I do know that Microsoft is fucking evil. No question in my mind. Oh, and I'm a sysadmin with 15 years of Microsoft's bullshite operating system crawling up my ass so I know from where I speak. Linux may have a way to go in the consumer market, but the fact that Apache has over 60% of the web server market while IIS is losing ground should be enough for that weiner Billy Gates to be shitting his drawers.
BTW, this benchmark, as others have pointed out, is an independent benchmark and so you're comparisons with Mindcraft are `cat - >/dev/null`
I would have thought that LEP's are employing a quantization effect: absorb electrical energy, raised to a higher energy level, relax to a rest state thus releasing a photon of a certain wavelength. Maybe I'm just full of !#$%.
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These 'powerpoint' slides are a system admins worst nightmare once users start creating their web sites this way since the content tends to be about way bigger than it needs to be.
I get fuck all spam on the account above. Go ahead, spam me. I dare ya. Lackwits.
Too much fucking coffee dude.
So I guess if you patched the kernel with e2compr you could easily archive about double that 5.2Gb on a single DVD-RAM. Wouldn't help for mp3 and the like but for uncompressed data it would be a pretty good backup format.
Cigarettes were initially the target of a small but noisy group of people who didn't like them. It's true that the things kill you, but so do a myriad of other products that people use. Once that weirdo surgeon general Dr. Everett Kook got onto the anti-smoking bandwagon and conviced Ronnie Raygun to do the same the level of Government supported FUD exploded (along with the inherent hypocrasy of supporting the habit by way of benefitting from the taxation of the product.) Doesn't this situation strike anyone as being completely assbackwards? Shouldn't the government be funding anti-smoking campaigns with their tobacco derived revenues to try to prevent having to treat the goddamn associated disease in the first place?
So what's this got to do with the price of tea in china? Well, consider that it took nearly 100 years of the cigarette industry to be villified for their product. Christ, the American (and every other country) used to send smokes to the boys overseas in the first and second world wars. Perhaps that should make them culpable for the pain and suffering of the soldiers who became addicted and ended up dying from the effects of lung cancer, some as old as 90 years old!! (not to mention the effect of having their legs blown off).
Now imagine, since society is equally addicted to the use of cell phones (which I detest BTW), that they do in fact cause some minor cellular damage but only over the course of a lifetime so that the cancer of the skin or brain or hair or whatever of the user does not show up until they've used the product for 25 or 30 years. Sound familiar? Sure, but we have to wait 25 or 30 years to find out whether they really are "killers" and by then everyone will be so used to wearing one on their head that it will take another 25 or 30 or 50 years to convice civilization that maybe they shouldn't be doing this anymore.
Oh fuck I don't know. Time for a smoke maybe.
Pfttt, ahhhhhh.
Not sure about wuftpd but I know that proftpd can easily be run by any other user.
I agree that separating ftp can be a good idea though.
We should have done this 7, or so, years ago before the goddamn suits discovered our little paradise. Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid, stoopid.
Fuck the lawyers
And there seems to be some success in dispelling the myth that hydrogen is dangerous. In fact it has been widely demonstrated that hydrogen is much safer than gas. Hydrogen is very volatile so when it burns it burns straight up. But gas spreads out over the ground and burns much more slowly, compared to hydrogen anyway. Besides that the health risks associated with gasolene delivery systems (the pump) would be eliminated with hydrogen.
The big car companies all have plans for fuel cell based vehicles in 2004 or 2005. When that happens you can bet that the adoption of this technology will explode, as did the widespread adoption of the internet with the advent of the web. And when those fuel cell vehicles come on the market I will end my boycott of automobile ownership, although I plan to continue to ride my bike to work!
and it was chu ... damn
One thing that you forgot to mention is that Cowpland is a moron.
And his wife is a dog.
If the fucking OLF shows up on my doorstep I'm going to stop operating my business in Quebec and stop giving the fascist fuckwits over 10 grand a year in taxes. Then I'll setup the business in my parents spare room in Ontario and have them send me a cash gift once in a while. They'll probably appreciate the extra income more than the language fascists in Quebec.
Ta guelle! M. Tete-de-violin
Cool word of the day: palimpsest
Write a 500 word essay using palimpsest at least 5 times. Don't be too hard on those xtian monks either, they didn't know any better.
My favourite 'This hour has 22 minutes' sendup has Rick Mercer going to American Ivy League universities and asking all and sunder about current issues like the Canadian cultural tradition of setting their old afloat on ice flows in the Artic Ocean. Some of the responses are priceless.
No, but really, I love you guys south of the border (BTW, we're on the north bit, Mexico is the other one.)
And overclocking is not without risks, and thus cost. I'll bet there are lots of overclockers out there with fried chip stories. Crisps?
Right on brother! And as a further point, imagine what you'd be paying to IBM or Micro$oft for one year's support. Xrist, to keep IIS going for one year you'd have to pay at least one MSCE at least $25,000!
Doesn't this sound a lot like the sort of screed that the scientology lawyers are so famous for?
Actually, I quite like the latest line of Macs, even though I find interface unusable, it's just that the nicest models are the grey 'uns and for this 'option' you get to pay through the nose.
Feh.
For a good, slightly off-topic, read check out the rec.woodworking Anti-FAQ. These woodworkers are pretty funny guys.
Which translates as "big dumb uglyass buttons with goofball cutesy icons". This was one of the most annoying aspects of early versions of programs running on Windoze. The one I recall being most annoying was an early version of <shudder>Norton Utilities </shudder> and a button about 2" square with a picture of a partially open (closed?) door and an exit sign ...
BTW, the corporations had very little to do with the fucking internet. Corporations ignored the burgeoning PC market for years before they realised what was at stake. Corporations are not to be cuddled. Because they will cut your damn head off to get what they want. Money and power.
Fuck Toffler.
Ahh, that feels better. Thanks for that.
I'm not a Linux lover. I think it has a long long way to go before the mainstream starts to take it seriously. There are so many problems with it right now..installing programs, removing them, x windows interface complexity, simple text editors..the list goes on. Honestly, I don't think it will ever become mainstream - it will get replaced by something else that will before long.
You're not a Linux lover, which is enough to explain that you don't know what the fsck you're talking about. Installations in RedHat, for example, are fast, easy and reversible. Installations in Windoze are slow (how much longer do you think the redmond people can make the creation of a single 'shortcut' take?) and incredibly time consuming. How often have you seen the 'time to reboot!' prompt? I've upgraded 20 RedHat rpm's on a production machine in less than 2 minutes and did not require a reboot. Install Windoze and reboot 10 or 15 times just to patch the OS to a workable level. Install Office97 and its two monster patches and watch one hour crawl by.
I'm not a Linux zealot, but I do know that Microsoft is fucking evil. No question in my mind. Oh, and I'm a sysadmin with 15 years of Microsoft's bullshite operating system crawling up my ass so I know from where I speak. Linux may have a way to go in the consumer market, but the fact that Apache has over 60% of the web server market while IIS is losing ground should be enough for that weiner Billy Gates to be shitting his drawers.
BTW, this benchmark, as others have pointed out, is an independent benchmark and so you're comparisons with Mindcraft are `cat - > /dev/null`
I would have thought that LEP's are employing a quantization effect: absorb electrical energy, raised to a higher energy level, relax to a rest state thus releasing a photon of a certain wavelength. Maybe I'm just full of !#$%.
Errr, that was the mood ring, remember them?
That would be a good way to not get people to buy your product, whatever the fsck a lolly wrapper is. ;)