Very funny, heh. No need for penis enlargement there.
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Indeed, my parents both have matching systems that I built, and both run Windows 2000 professional. Sometimes they call me when they're having weird issues. I have taught them how to check their uptimes, and when they check, it's usually 2 weeks.
"Time to reboot," I say.
Of course, maybe the way they browse the web is an issue. They both leave windows open to webpages instead of making bookmarks. When I get to see their taskbar, it's usually full of buttons that are taller than they are wide.
It looks like a simple troll to me. Better not waste your brainpower trying to dissect it. Just bask in its radioactive glow and get a suntan... or something.
In the army, infantry are refered to as "crunchies" because of the sound they make while marching in formation. Crunch, crunch, crunch. So they're the crunchies.
In context, she was referring to the army of Linux developers, and specifically, the ones doing the dirty work.
Cinea LLC, which created an encryption system for DVDs[...]
Yes, the highly successful encryption system for DVDs! I'd say any individual involved in the creation of that system must be some of the smartest in the world, because we all know how unbreakable that is. Oh woe, if only we could decrypt DVDs, but alas it has proven as hard as breaking all other forms of encryption combined!
You are correct, Everquest is subscription based. Normally, you'd use a credit card and have a recurring charge. However, whereever Everquest boxed CDs are sold, 90-day prepaid cards are also sold. You buy the card, input the card number in your EQ client, and your account is credited +3 months. In this way, you can pay for EQ with cash.
Perhaps EQ's subscription system keeps younger folks from playing, but I don't think it has that great of an effect. I know plenty of EQers who are 15-18.
As a player myself, I feel the conclusions are more or less correct. There are those who're only concerned with loot, and they also tend to be immature, argumentative, and disagreeable. They tend to be younger. There're those who act very mature and are excellent friends. They tend to be older. Personally, however, one of my best EQ friends is 15 (a surprise when he said so) and I've delt with some real horses asses who had families and dayjobs.
I use it every day too. I had a decision to make. I wanted to play games that came out and run misc Windows programs reliably. I also wanted to have a stable platform where I could store my email, have xchat up, have various persistant processes running (for 120+ days of uptime now).
So what was I to do? Get Linux and install wine? If I enjoyed pain, sure. Or: Get Windows and run a webserver, mail-fetching programs, Python for windows, xchat for windows, blahblahblah for windows? No, I need a Linux environment, not just some of the applications that happen to be compilable under win32.
I made two computers. Linux box is headless, Windows box is not (of course). Installed windows, installed cygwin, installed XFree86 on the windows machine (easy, cygwin package), got remote login to work. Presto, Windows and Linux co-existing the easy way. The only improvement would have to be a seperate monitor and keyboard, but that takes up physical space.
how often do you need remote xwindows
More like, how often do I need local xwindows? My answer is "never." Don't treat remote windows like it's a party trick. I'd say it's the most important feature, period!
Look again! They claimed to have a budget of US$0, and from the pictures, that's probably not far off. You'd have to consider the tools though, I think the $0 budget thing shouldn't be taken quite so literally. If the weight of a computer had anything to do with it's performance, using your anology, it'd be like taking all the internals of the 486 and hooking them together on a tabletop in the open. That's not practical, but neither is the end result of these folks' experiment.
What I want to know is, where'd the car come from? What's the real story behind all this? I mean, it didn't look like they cared about the condition of the ground effects kit, which could be sold. Supposedly, it was a perfectly good car... I can't come up with a good excuse about why they'd trash a car like that. Don't get me wrong, I don't cry a single tear for the loss of an '01 Nissan Sentra. But... why? Was tearing it apart as an elaborate joke worth really worth the money they could have sold it for?
Both the original site and the mirror/.ed in under 30 minutes!
Heh! For sure you meant seconds.
It makes me wonder if this whole thing about people not reading the articles is due to the frequency with which articles are/.ed. After a while, people get tired of trying. Not that that's a valid excuse. Nor would everyone do it, otherwise the/. effect wouldn't exist!
So perhaps a response to "RTFA" could be "I'm saving their bandwidth by not reading the article." Donno.
Here we have yet another gas-powered bicycle. So it's within the frame. Big deal. What's the target audience here? Who needs these things? Is it not enough that you have wheels and multiple gears? You're telling me you want to not have to use the pedals too? Let me tell you about this amazing power source my scooter has. It's waterproof, runs on carbohydrates and caffeine, and can disengage and coast down hills to conserve energy. It easily attaches and detatches itself to and from the scooter.
In addition to that, with a gas-powered bicycle, you're going to be hated by automobile drivers *and* bike riders, cause you're an annoying bike with a polluting, noisy gas engine. Pedestrians will hate you too for almost running them over with any sort of powered vehicle while you're on the sidewalk.
I'm not saying there's no practical use for these. Maybe if you're one of those bicycle-to-work types of people and theres a large hill you have to get up. In that case, you'll simply start up the 2-stroke and... oh, pollute like a mofo. Guess you'll only be biking to work because it doesn't cost as much as maintaining a car... certainly no environmental reason.
Over time nobody will give a damn about patent laws because they will infringe something no matter what the hell they do.
In my humble opinion, I think that nobody would notice a difference if the Patent Office were reorganized. They should write up patents on everything and auction them off a few 100 at a time on eBay to the highest bidder. Patents on compressed air! Apple pie! Certain arrangements of empty soda cans! It would be a good way for them to raise money for their reorganization (dissolution?), and companies could still get their garbage patent fix.
And nobody would really notice anything different from the way things are today.
You don't start over when you die in EQ. The best scenario is you have a cleric raise you and you get 96% of your lost experience back, and you're out maybe 5 minutes. The worst is that you could lose your corpse and everything you owned was on it, but even an admin will help you out if you're honestly trying to get your stuff back and truely can not.
But start over? Not at all. You're still the same level unless you were unfortunate to lose enough experience to go back a level, but you wouldn't expect to go from level 60 to level 1.
Slashdot Mirror
Looney I'm afraid. There'd be an issue if my kernel was compiled 419 days ago but I had a 635 day uptime, but this is the other way around.
skreech@tycho:~$ alias uptime='/usr/bin/uptime | perl -ne "/(\d+) d/&&print 8,q(=)x\$1,D" | figlet -f small'
skreech@tycho:~$ uptime
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Very funny, heh. No need for penis enlargement there.
Indeed, my parents both have matching systems that I built, and both run Windows 2000 professional. Sometimes they call me when they're having weird issues. I have taught them how to check their uptimes, and when they check, it's usually 2 weeks.
"Time to reboot," I say.
Of course, maybe the way they browse the web is an issue. They both leave windows open to webpages instead of making bookmarks. When I get to see their taskbar, it's usually full of buttons that are taller than they are wide.
Guess that's why they don't want to reboot.
Shouldn't be, it's a Pentium Pro 200 and all it does is serve static web pages.
skreech@tycho:~$ uname -a
Linux tycho 2.4.17 #1 Sat Dec 22 12:37:19 CST 2001 i686 unknown
skreech@tycho:~$ uptime
18:07:35 up 419 days, 22:56, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
Sitting nicely behind a firewall, and running Debian Sarge.
It looks like a simple troll to me. Better not waste your brainpower trying to dissect it. Just bask in its radioactive glow and get a suntan... or something.
They're models. Heres a picture from the same site.
In the army, infantry are refered to as "crunchies" because of the sound they make while marching in formation. Crunch, crunch, crunch. So they're the crunchies.
In context, she was referring to the army of Linux developers, and specifically, the ones doing the dirty work.
Rawr rawr google link rawr.
Rawr.
Cinea LLC, which created an encryption system for DVDs[...]
Yes, the highly successful encryption system for DVDs! I'd say any individual involved in the creation of that system must be some of the smartest in the world, because we all know how unbreakable that is. Oh woe, if only we could decrypt DVDs, but alas it has proven as hard as breaking all other forms of encryption combined!
*puts on "Got DeCSS?" t-shirt and walks away*
You are correct, Everquest is subscription based. Normally, you'd use a credit card and have a recurring charge. However, whereever Everquest boxed CDs are sold, 90-day prepaid cards are also sold. You buy the card, input the card number in your EQ client, and your account is credited +3 months. In this way, you can pay for EQ with cash.
Perhaps EQ's subscription system keeps younger folks from playing, but I don't think it has that great of an effect. I know plenty of EQers who are 15-18.
As a player myself, I feel the conclusions are more or less correct. There are those who're only concerned with loot, and they also tend to be immature, argumentative, and disagreeable. They tend to be younger. There're those who act very mature and are excellent friends. They tend to be older. Personally, however, one of my best EQ friends is 15 (a surprise when he said so) and I've delt with some real horses asses who had families and dayjobs.
I use it every day too. I had a decision to make. I wanted to play games that came out and run misc Windows programs reliably. I also wanted to have a stable platform where I could store my email, have xchat up, have various persistant processes running (for 120+ days of uptime now).
So what was I to do? Get Linux and install wine? If I enjoyed pain, sure. Or: Get Windows and run a webserver, mail-fetching programs, Python for windows, xchat for windows, blahblahblah for windows? No, I need a Linux environment, not just some of the applications that happen to be compilable under win32.
I made two computers. Linux box is headless, Windows box is not (of course). Installed windows, installed cygwin, installed XFree86 on the windows machine (easy, cygwin package), got remote login to work. Presto, Windows and Linux co-existing the easy way. The only improvement would have to be a seperate monitor and keyboard, but that takes up physical space.
how often do you need remote xwindows
More like, how often do I need local xwindows? My answer is "never." Don't treat remote windows like it's a party trick. I'd say it's the most important feature, period!
The article is talking about megabits (Mbps), not megabytes (MBps) as mentioned above. Capitalization matters on that acronym.
Look again! They claimed to have a budget of US$0, and from the pictures, that's probably not far off. You'd have to consider the tools though, I think the $0 budget thing shouldn't be taken quite so literally. If the weight of a computer had anything to do with it's performance, using your anology, it'd be like taking all the internals of the 486 and hooking them together on a tabletop in the open. That's not practical, but neither is the end result of these folks' experiment.
What I want to know is, where'd the car come from? What's the real story behind all this? I mean, it didn't look like they cared about the condition of the ground effects kit, which could be sold. Supposedly, it was a perfectly good car... I can't come up with a good excuse about why they'd trash a car like that. Don't get me wrong, I don't cry a single tear for the loss of an '01 Nissan Sentra. But... why? Was tearing it apart as an elaborate joke worth really worth the money they could have sold it for?
I must say, that's one of the best "In communist country, the noun verbs you" examples I've seen. "Evar."
Both the original site and the mirror /.ed in under 30 minutes!
/.ed. After a while, people get tired of trying. Not that that's a valid excuse. Nor would everyone do it, otherwise the /. effect wouldn't exist!
Heh! For sure you meant seconds.
It makes me wonder if this whole thing about people not reading the articles is due to the frequency with which articles are
So perhaps a response to "RTFA" could be "I'm saving their bandwidth by not reading the article." Donno.
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Mac OS X says: Help! I'm in a nutshell! How did I get into this nutshell?! Aaaa!
Must be from the folks who brought us a webserver in a fly and a network switch in a teddy bear.
There's a buffer overflow that can lead to root access with the hello-asking-name program. Here's a patch.
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Perhaps you meant 2003.
Oh well. I never do get a good grasp on the odd-numbered years.
Cracking toast, Grommit!
Here we have yet another gas-powered bicycle. So it's within the frame. Big deal. What's the target audience here? Who needs these things? Is it not enough that you have wheels and multiple gears? You're telling me you want to not have to use the pedals too? Let me tell you about this amazing power source my scooter has. It's waterproof, runs on carbohydrates and caffeine, and can disengage and coast down hills to conserve energy. It easily attaches and detatches itself to and from the scooter.
In addition to that, with a gas-powered bicycle, you're going to be hated by automobile drivers *and* bike riders, cause you're an annoying bike with a polluting, noisy gas engine. Pedestrians will hate you too for almost running them over with any sort of powered vehicle while you're on the sidewalk.
I'm not saying there's no practical use for these. Maybe if you're one of those bicycle-to-work types of people and theres a large hill you have to get up. In that case, you'll simply start up the 2-stroke and... oh, pollute like a mofo. Guess you'll only be biking to work because it doesn't cost as much as maintaining a car... certainly no environmental reason.
That'll be okay so long as you attract these bugs. They'll share their mp3s.
Over time nobody will give a damn about patent laws because they will infringe something no matter what the hell they do.
In my humble opinion, I think that nobody would notice a difference if the Patent Office were reorganized. They should write up patents on everything and auction them off a few 100 at a time on eBay to the highest bidder. Patents on compressed air! Apple pie! Certain arrangements of empty soda cans! It would be a good way for them to raise money for their reorganization (dissolution?), and companies could still get their garbage patent fix.
And nobody would really notice anything different from the way things are today.
You don't start over when you die in EQ. The best scenario is you have a cleric raise you and you get 96% of your lost experience back, and you're out maybe 5 minutes. The worst is that you could lose your corpse and everything you owned was on it, but even an admin will help you out if you're honestly trying to get your stuff back and truely can not.
But start over? Not at all. You're still the same level unless you were unfortunate to lose enough experience to go back a level, but you wouldn't expect to go from level 60 to level 1.
Tonne = Ton
Except, it's not. They're similar in magnitude only. A ton is 2,000 pounds, whereas a tonne is 1,000 kilograms, or something like 2,200 pounds.
It does look like a misspelling, tho.