Surprising to see no one linked to the official website, also for a great deal more pictures, google pictures to the rescue.
Imagine sending this over to Iraq.... we know it's useless as an effective weapon against bombs and stuff, but they don't....be great to just scare the hell out of 'em.
This reminds me of a call I got once while I was doing Technical support....
The lady called me up and asked where Word was. I walked her through finding it, and a few other applications on her computer. (the ones listed in the book) After doing this, she asks me "Where is Windows? I don't see it in my Programs."
Needless to say, some people don't know what the hell they're running on their computer in the first place!
I'd be a little worried about letting software that calls home store my passwords. Thiunk about it, how is directed advertising done? By knowing what you do.
I trust FireFox a little more, and it's nice to go to a site and see all my info remembered for me.
Is your meat not all it's cracked up to be? Need more meat in less time? Can't afford drugs that improve your sex life?
You need to buy V14gra. There is nothing like it in the world. Have Nice Juicy meat in just minutes. No more waiting, no more high prices! Act now and we will throw in a free Key!
HAH! Not only did you beat the Slashdot Spam Filter, but you also managed to get mod points for it! Bravo! Now where does it link to so us poor Slashdotters can slashdot their sig....err... buy viagra?
In 1995, CD Prices at the Average Media Play store was $11.99 each. Now the average price is $15-$20 a CD.
The average job in this area pays $7.50 - $10 an hour. Minus taxes, which leaves people about $300 a week to cover living expenses. Fill your gas tank twice a week, there's $46. Pay Mortgage/Rent, Insurance, Electric and Gas, there's $200 a week. So we have about $54 a week left for food, and other life related items.... I don't think CDs are selling too good around here.
Music Industry: Piss Off. President Bush: Go fuck yourself. Trickle-down economics isn't helping when most of the people with money were born in the 20s and feel the need to pinch their pennies with all their might.
Debian - Who better? Novell - If your going to include IBM and RedHat,
why not Novell? They are now SUSE, and are
focusing on interoperability.
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Well, you shouldn't have installed the Nemo Codec Pack, and I KNOW that's the one your talking about, it causes your encoded MPEG-1 Video files to be mirrored upside down, and jerky.
Yep, Nemo Sucks. K-Lite Codec Megapack...I haven't seen any problems yet...aside from it turning my WAV volume all the way down when I try to play real media content....which is no big deal.
Yeah! When they closed the terminal I worked in, I took whatever they would have otherwise thrown out... Seeing this, the boss offered me a bunch of other stuff, which I am currently selling on eBay.
If you don't screw the company, your likely to leave with at least a good reference. Hell, some of the people that I worked with got reference letters from the company.
Go to Computer Surplus Outlet Buy one of the cheap Pentium II systems they are offering. Get Smoothwall, and install it on the cheap P-II (be sure to read the User's Manual included on the CD) you just bought. Sit it between your PC and cable modem. Got ghetto Broadband? Run Squid on it. You will have all the security of a Linux based Router/Firewall, and the speed advantage of a Squid Caching Proxy Server.
They're agents of the owners of the copyrights being infringed. They can legally do anything the original copyright holder could do
Which means, if I want to walk on to your property and search for evidence without Law Enforcement Officials, and a Warrant to see if you have my copyrighted material, I can?
Even police aren't allowed to search your property without a warrant... so I'm certainly not going to let some schmoe in a fancy jacket come into my place of business without a warrant because he thinks I infringed on his copyright.
Copyright law is like any other law, innocent until proven guilty. It's not my job to say I'm guilty, it's your job to go to the courts, obtain a warrant, and execute the warrant as it is stated.
A good example: We have a regional flea market here, it attracts alot of people weekly. There is a bootlegger that sells copied CDs, it's obviously because you can see the print lines in the labels, and case inserts. There are police at the flea market to protect the vendors from shop lifting. They don't have a warrant to look for bootlegs, therefore they tend to not do anything about these obviously illegal CDs being sold.
I think the best reason to use Debian or Slackware is simply because it doesn't try to install and run EVERYTHING included on those (3, 4, 5, what is it now?) CDs. Red Hat, Mandrake, Lycoris, Lindows, and a number of other Linux distributions I have tried seem to make that hardware detection bit work simply by trying to run drivers for everything. With Debian, I can install what I want exactly how I want, and apt keeps me from fighting Dependency Nightmares (which I have had with just about every other distro)
SCO UnixWare is a good product. I have used it, and it has everything you would expect from Unix... The Company (SCO/Caldera) justr keeps beating on their community....so SCO will kill off the community for their product because of their vendetta against Linux, and end up with a great product without a community.
On the Lindows CD I have you don't even need to edit your apt sources file, just go ahead and apt-get install all you want....just don't mess with their mighty X Display Manager or you won't be able to login to your system anymore.
I replaced all the links to Click-n-Run with Links to Synaptic, and installed Mozilla Firebird.... looks nice, works nice, but it's still no where as nice as my standard Debian install.
Cpmcast telephone tech support really has no way to fix "the problem on their end" They are outsourced call centers no where near the Comcast hardware.
There are a few tools to see if there is a problem on their end, or your end....not always perfect, but they are usually helpful.
I used to do Comcast tech support. We constantly got calls back from customers who were told to unplug their modem, plug it back in and call back in ten minutes. That was from the company that finally got to keep their contract with Comcast....we lost ours, though we were doing 66% of all incoming calls, and solving the problems to the customer's satisfaction more often than the other companies competing.
You are a retard. What you are doing here is spitting media bullshit back at people who are already brainwashed enough by it.
Do you know why Metallica sued their fans and other Artists didnt? Metallica owns all rights to their music, whereas other artists' music is owned by their record companies. So these little shit artists like *NSUCK, Backdoor Boys, and Boobjob Spears just sat back and said "Sick 'em chopper" to their record companies, while Metallica couldn't do that. Elektra would say "Why, what's in it for me?"
If you were in the same situation, and someone was stealing your self designed custom-sewn pink name embroidered underwear would you go after them or just let people copy your unique design?
The only artist that actually played it cool was the Offspring. They tried to give their music away, and had they owned it like Metallica does they probably would have....but their Music company bitched out on 'em and said "no, it's ours...you wrote it, we get the money"
Take it or leave it, everyone has to make a living; making music, writing Operating System, working in the Pits of hell (factories like me)...it's bad when other people take your paycheck away.
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Did you mean: grammar
Wonder why my Google Images link got removed.
Surprising to see no one linked to the official website, also for a great deal more pictures,
google pictures to the rescue.
Imagine sending this over to Iraq.... we know it's useless as an effective weapon against bombs and stuff, but they don't....be great to just scare the hell out of 'em.
apt-get install gimp
Nuff Said.
Perhaps the slashcode's submit script should have a spell checker.
This reminds me of a call I got once while I was doing Technical support....
The lady called me up and asked where Word was. I walked her through finding it, and a few other applications on her computer. (the ones listed in the book) After doing this, she asks me "Where is Windows? I don't see it in my Programs."
Needless to say, some people don't know what the hell they're running on their computer in the first place!
I'd be a little worried about letting software that calls home store my passwords. Thiunk about it, how is directed advertising done? By knowing what you do.
I trust FireFox a little more, and it's nice to go to a site and see all my info remembered for me.
Is your meat not all it's cracked up to be? Need more meat in less time? Can't afford drugs that improve your sex life?
You need to buy V14gra. There is nothing like it in the world. Have Nice Juicy meat in just minutes. No more waiting, no more high prices! Act now and we will throw in a free Key!
HAH! Not only did you beat the Slashdot Spam Filter, but you also managed to get mod points for it! Bravo! Now where does it link to so us poor Slashdotters can slashdot their sig....err... buy viagra?
In 1995, CD Prices at the Average Media Play store was $11.99 each. Now the average price is $15-$20 a CD.
The average job in this area pays $7.50 - $10 an hour. Minus taxes, which leaves people about $300 a week to cover living expenses. Fill your gas tank twice a week, there's $46. Pay Mortgage/Rent, Insurance, Electric and Gas, there's $200 a week. So we have about $54 a week left for food, and other life related items.... I don't think CDs are selling too good around here.
Music Industry: Piss Off.
President Bush: Go fuck yourself. Trickle-down economics isn't helping when most of the people with money were born in the 20s and feel the need to pinch their pennies with all their might.
What about:
Debian - Who better?
Novell - If your going to include IBM and RedHat,
why not Novell? They are now SUSE, and are
focusing on interoperability.
Well, you shouldn't have installed the Nemo Codec Pack, and I KNOW that's the one your talking about, it causes your encoded MPEG-1 Video files to be mirrored upside down, and jerky.
Yep, Nemo Sucks. K-Lite Codec Megapack...I haven't seen any problems yet...aside from it turning my WAV volume all the way down when I try to play real media content....which is no big deal.
Yeah! When they closed the terminal I worked in, I took whatever they would have otherwise thrown out... Seeing this, the boss offered me a bunch of other stuff, which I am currently selling on eBay.
If you don't screw the company, your likely to leave with at least a good reference. Hell, some of the people that I worked with got reference letters from the company.
A beowulf cluster of these.
You could keep a lot of beer cold.
Go to Computer Surplus Outlet Buy one of the cheap Pentium II systems they are offering. Get Smoothwall, and install it on the cheap P-II (be sure to read the User's Manual included on the CD) you just bought. Sit it between your PC and cable modem. Got ghetto Broadband? Run Squid on it. You will have all the security of a Linux based Router/Firewall, and the speed advantage of a Squid Caching Proxy Server.
Which means, if I want to walk on to your property and search for evidence without
Law Enforcement Officials, and a Warrant to see if you have my copyrighted material, I can?
Even police aren't allowed to search your property without a warrant... so I'm certainly not going to let some schmoe in a fancy jacket come into my place of business without a warrant because he thinks I infringed on his copyright.
Copyright law is like any other law, innocent until proven guilty. It's not my job to say I'm guilty, it's your job to go to the courts, obtain a warrant, and execute the warrant as it is stated.
A good example: We have a regional flea market here, it attracts alot of people weekly. There is a bootlegger that sells copied CDs, it's obviously because you can see the print lines in the labels, and case inserts. There are police at the flea market to protect the vendors from shop lifting. They don't have a warrant to look for bootlegs, therefore they tend to not do anything about these obviously illegal CDs being sold.
I think the best reason to use Debian or Slackware is simply because it doesn't try to install and run EVERYTHING included on those (3, 4, 5, what is it now?) CDs. Red Hat, Mandrake, Lycoris, Lindows, and a number of other Linux distributions I have tried seem to make that hardware detection bit work simply by trying to run drivers for everything. With Debian, I can install what I want exactly how I want, and apt keeps me from fighting Dependency Nightmares (which I have had with just about every other distro)
Or a bus that watches for cars in the next lane over, or the road the bus is going towards. And a nice audible alert that passengers can hear
"You just ran a stop sign and almost killed someone stupid!" or "Only morons don't look before pulling into traffic"
SCO UnixWare is a good product. I have used it, and it has everything you would expect from Unix... The Company (SCO/Caldera) justr keeps beating on their community....so SCO will kill off the community for their product because of their vendetta against Linux, and end up with a great product without a community.
On the Lindows CD I have you don't even need to edit your apt sources file, just go ahead and apt-get install all you want....just don't mess with their mighty X Display Manager or you won't be able to login to your system anymore.
I replaced all the links to Click-n-Run with Links to Synaptic, and installed Mozilla Firebird.... looks nice, works nice, but it's still no where as nice as my standard Debian install.
Here you go.
Porn
Anti-Microsoft Propoganda.
Cpmcast telephone tech support really has no way to fix "the problem on their end" They are outsourced call centers no where near the Comcast hardware.
There are a few tools to see if there is a problem on their end, or your end....not always perfect, but they are usually helpful.
I used to do Comcast tech support. We constantly got calls back from customers who were told to unplug their modem, plug it back in and call back in ten minutes. That was from the company that finally got to keep their contract with Comcast....we lost ours, though we were doing 66% of all incoming calls, and solving the problems to the customer's satisfaction more often than the other companies competing.
Isn't their fab plant in Germany?
You are a retard. What you are doing here is spitting media bullshit back at people who are already brainwashed enough by it.
Do you know why Metallica sued their fans and other Artists didnt? Metallica owns all rights to their music, whereas other artists' music is owned by their record companies. So these little shit artists like *NSUCK, Backdoor Boys, and Boobjob Spears just sat back and said "Sick 'em chopper" to their record companies, while Metallica couldn't do that. Elektra would say "Why, what's in it for me?"
If you were in the same situation, and someone was stealing your self designed custom-sewn pink name embroidered underwear would you go after them or just let people copy your unique design?
The only artist that actually played it cool was the Offspring. They tried to give their music away, and had they owned it like Metallica does they probably would have....but their Music company bitched out on 'em and said "no, it's ours...you wrote it, we get the money"
Take it or leave it, everyone has to make a living; making music, writing Operating System, working in the Pits of hell (factories like me)...it's bad when other people take your paycheck away.
Running them in a Beowulf cluster!!!