However, when I read your post and saw a swap partition on a Ramdisk without any justification it made me laugh because it really sounded stupid (I thought you made an error).
In the the French edition there was an article written after Frank Herbert's death that, among other things, seemed to imply that Frank Herbert was seeing the mysterious farmer couple as himself (and possibly his wife, also I think she was already dead then) and that the fact that Duncan was escaping their net was his way of saying that his characters "escaped" him and lived their own life afterwards. Seen in this light it would be very unlikely that Frank Herbert would have planned another book.
I never heard of another theory about the old couple but I would be interested in knowing about them if anyone knows them.
Of course most of the uncivilized world isn't bent on destroying the UK or its culture either, so I would be surprised if their military budget is anywhere near ours.
Of course most of the civilised world isn't bent on invading the rest of the world or boss them around either, so I wouldn't be surprised if their military budget doesn't need to be anywhere near yours.
We (France) left some french speaking folks in Belgium to sort out all these free-thinking potheads* while they (Holland) left some dutch speaking folks in Belgium to avoid having to smell non-pasteurised milk based French cheese.
*We also kept Belgium as an open backdoor for our German neighbour to come in when the front door (the maginot line) is locked.
I wouldn't worry too much, since you posted on the same thread as you moderated your moderation was probably undone (unless doing so from different accounts or IP's or unless it changed since the only time it happened to me).
Now call someone and try to have a meaningful talk on the hone with them while playing the same game. Now see how fast you get killed out.
My experience is that there is absolutely no significant difference between playing with all my atttention on the game and playing while talking on the phone, I always get creamed in less than 5 seconds*:)
"It also supports upgrading only the files that have changed (eg: for keeping up-to-date images of stable)"
It's much more useful to keep up-to-date images of sid (unstable) given that many much more packages change much more often.
This is especially useful with a laptop that may not always be connected to the internet. You can regularly update your collection of CD's by popping the old ones in the drive so that jigdo can get most of the packages from there, he then downloads the new ones and prepare the new image, and voila, an up to date set of CD's that you can bring everywhere with your laptop just in case you need to install a new package.
"didn't Douglas Adams put in some time as a script editor"
I read somwhere (DNA I think, the story of Douglas Adams by Neil Gaiman) that the story of "Life, The Universe and Everything" was originally written as a Dr Who script but never made it to production and was then rewritten as the book we know.
"Huuummmmmmmm... I believe, sir as modern theory has it, that a native speaker is NOT accountable to, but DEFINES literacy in that language. Eh, hoser...?"
Only by a majority (or big enough minority) that the/. crew is unlikely to have in the US (even my who learnt English as a second foreign langage seem to have a better grasp of spelling and grammar than them, of course, having read more than a hundred books written in English in the last three years certainly does help).
Anyway, if we are talking about native speakers defining ENGLISH, then maybe we should go completely anal and refer to the Queen's English, Oxford's English or at least one of variations of English that you can find in England (kna 'a mean).
Yup, I live in the UK and just today I paid my rent by Internet banking, just gave the name of my landlord's account and its number and the sort number... oh! wait, I did that the first time and just selected the right account from a pulldown list this month and entered the amount and when to pay. That's bloody complicated, isn't it? I didn't even have to leave my bed to do that (thanks to my laptop:)).
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Hey, there's a difference between holding your breath until you die and holding your breath until you walk past the garbage heap.
Not if you are watching Fox.
Who cares if Bush's excuse for his power grab was genuine or falsified (like the Reichtag was)?
Bush himself didn't care, he certainly went ahead and attacked Afghanistan before getting any real proof.
If someone sells me a puppy, I'm still going to have to buy dog food in the morning.
And if you buy it from Microsoft you will also be forced to eat it.
Ok, it makes more sense that way.
However, when I read your post and saw a swap partition on a Ramdisk without any justification it made me laugh because it really sounded stupid (I thought you made an error).
Thanks for enlightening me.
"Knoppix creates a RAM disk for swap space"
Excuse me? Aren't swap space supposed to be for when you don't have enough RAM, so that you transfer a part of your RAM to the swap on the HDD?
Very useful that, to transfer part of your RAM to the swap on the RAMdisk to save some space.
Has anybody tried this install yet?
How easy to install is it compared to the progeny installer, the new Debian graphical installer and the old, infamous, text installer?
Could this be the easiest Debian install ever (one can dream)?
"who the mysterious farmer couple were"
In the the French edition there was an article written after Frank Herbert's death that, among other things, seemed to imply that Frank Herbert was seeing the mysterious farmer couple as himself (and possibly his wife, also I think she was already dead then) and that the fact that Duncan was escaping their net was his way of saying that his characters "escaped" him and lived their own life afterwards. Seen in this light it would be very unlikely that Frank Herbert would have planned another book.
I never heard of another theory about the old couple but I would be interested in knowing about them if anyone knows them.
Ok, I'll feed the Trolls.
Of course most of the uncivilized world isn't bent on destroying the UK or its culture either, so I would be surprised if their military budget is anywhere near ours.
Of course most of the civilised world isn't bent on invading the rest of the world or boss them around either, so I wouldn't be surprised if their military budget doesn't need to be anywhere near yours.
The same goes both way:
We (France) left some french speaking folks in Belgium to sort out all these free-thinking potheads* while they (Holland) left some dutch speaking folks in Belgium to avoid having to smell non-pasteurised milk based French cheese.
*We also kept Belgium as an open backdoor for our German neighbour to come in when the front door (the maginot line) is locked.
"Intel's plan was to come up with a new, different architecture that no one could clone because Intel had patents on key parts"
Am I the only one that read that as the exact reason why IBM came up with the PS/2 (and why it didn't work)?
"All we need now is a Ellen Feiss Porn link. please :)"
She is underage (14 or 15 I think).
Of course, if you get her in Holland you won't have to wait as long (I think they can start doing porn at 16 or 17 there).
I wouldn't worry too much, since you posted on the same thread as you moderated your moderation was probably undone (unless doing so from different accounts or IP's or unless it changed since the only time it happened to me).
Now call someone and try to have a meaningful talk on the hone with them while playing the same game. Now see how fast you get killed out.
:)
My experience is that there is absolutely no significant difference between playing with all my atttention on the game and playing while talking on the phone, I always get creamed in less than 5 seconds*
*The time to bump into someone else.
"It also supports upgrading only the files that have changed (eg: for keeping up-to-date images of stable)"
It's much more useful to keep up-to-date images of sid (unstable) given that many much more packages change much more often.
This is especially useful with a laptop that may not always be connected to the internet. You can regularly update your collection of CD's by popping the old ones in the drive so that jigdo can get most of the packages from there, he then downloads the new ones and prepare the new image, and voila, an up to date set of CD's that you can bring everywhere with your laptop just in case you need to install a new package.
Yeah, and he forgot "Rien A Signaler"; non-english acronyms are fair play, right?
"didn't Douglas Adams put in some time as a script editor"
I read somwhere (DNA I think, the story of Douglas Adams by Neil Gaiman) that the story of "Life, The Universe and Everything" was originally written as a Dr Who script but never made it to production and was then rewritten as the book we know.
"Concorde is French"
Actually it was developed conjointly by France and Britain.
"Wow, you even saved a byte by mis-spelling "Possible" - awesome!"
Yeah, but he didn't mispell smallest, thus wasting one byte.
WHAT!!!
Which gets you the "best" of both worlds: the blazing performance of a microkernel with the fault tolerance and isolation of a monolithic kernel.
Please tell me that you meant the exact opposite.
"I guess that
means that their new acronym is L.I.E."
Or E.L.I. (short for Elijah, one of God's greatest prophets in the old testament IIRC).
"Huuummmmmmmm ... I believe, sir as modern theory has it, that a native speaker is NOT accountable to, but DEFINES literacy in that language. Eh, hoser ...?"
/. crew is unlikely to have in the US (even my who learnt English as a second foreign langage seem to have a better grasp of spelling and grammar than them, of course, having read more than a hundred books written in English in the last three years certainly does help).
Only by a majority (or big enough minority) that the
Anyway, if we are talking about native speakers defining ENGLISH, then maybe we should go completely anal and refer to the Queen's English, Oxford's English or at least one of variations of English that you can find in England (kna 'a mean).
Yeah, and maybe AOL should also attack these trademark thieving bastards over at shAOLin.com too?
Note: if you don't know the meaning of the word sarcasm or what the shaolin temple is don't moderate this post because you don't get it.
"Dont you mean 52nd? I think 51st is already taken."
Yes, by the UK.
That would assume that /. submitters are better at grammar than /. editors are good at spelling, quite a big assumption in my opinion.
Yup, I live in the UK and just today I paid my rent by Internet banking, just gave the name of my landlord's account and its number and the sort number... oh! wait, I did that the first time and just selected the right account from a pulldown list this month and entered the amount and when to pay. That's bloody complicated, isn't it? I didn't even have to leave my bed to do that (thanks to my laptop