Yes, and they are very good at it. If you want that $299 to actually be able to function anywhere near the reasonable expectation of a 'new pc'; you will spend around a grand to make the cheapest piece of crap usable. Not to mention the $24 free shipping and the free printer for $67. How about that 6' USB A-B cable for $24.99? Dude...
Looking up www.catalogueofships.com www.catalogueofships.com Making HTTP connection to www.catalogueofships.com Sending HTTP request. HTTP request sent; waiting for response. HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Data transfer complete
lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
Exiting... demonx@bumblebee:~$
M$-AOL. Because good clean code counts. With the track record of the software coming from said companies; we can only look forward to a stable, robust, and premium priced internet service. *shiver*
>>From their FAQ: Is it safe to buy HP notebooks? Absolutely. HP fully stands behind the products it makes."
HP started making Mitac and Compal laptops?!?!? Wow! HP is bigger than I thought! I guess they must be if their printer ink is the most valuable fluid on earth. =/
zOMFG!!1 d00dz! Yahoo's toolbar is so much better; it comes with like fourteen free programs and it's got games and a sweet chat thing. YAHOO IS TOTALLY K-RAD. HEY, I CANT USE HIGH ASCII ON THIS THING. ONLY LAMERZ USE GOOGLE DOOD.
p.s. if you find the new Y4H4X v4.7 Turbo-phisher for yahoo pager PLZ!!1 email it to me. kgr8thx.
Someone needs to contact Penn and Teller and ask them to do a segment on the Dvorak layout. Why? Because they have a TV show on shotime called BULLSHIT that debunks thinks like the dvorak keyboard layout. If anyone cares to put this fairytale bullshit to the test PLEASE share your results. I've tried dvorak and it didn't do me a damn bit of good. It's kind of like trying to learn japanese by watchni dragon ball z, except there really is no benefit.
Unplugging a computer may induce rebellion in children. Child comes home from school to find that sneaky ol dad has reached the bleeding edge of technology by installing some n*n*nnyish program access. Child talks to other child on irc; other child tells first child how to disable said program. Child then plays sweetest first person shooter of the current time frame give or take a year. Child becomes a computer technician in spare time to save on cost of computer use. Child becomes adult, starts working locally as a tech for mom n' pop shops. Adult has failed marriage and 1 child. Child expresses interest in computer games that may be offensive. Adult buys child a computer and tells them to mow lawns for software money. Instead however, child becomes computer technician in spare time.
I've got an old sparc classic running a load of woody that was installed in June of `01. It runs great for a 50MHz sun4m with 72MB of ram that is up 24/7. I suppose I will still be happy with it if it caught on fire and didn't unmount my filesystems before powering off. Thanks to Debian I have had several years of enjoyment out of a machine that was not at all enjoyable previous to becoming a penguin.
If rajr bites the dust, he will likely be replaced by a newer, faster, x86. I would be compelled to run something newer than woody on this machine.
So I will be moving on to something more mainstream in my little home user world. I think this bears some resemblence to what is happening in the business world in terms of replacing older, not-so-common hardware and software(where applicable).
Whatever happens I'll (thankfully) still be able to enjoy free software.
If the federal prosecutors should add up all the bandwidth and PC 'repair' costs that this gentleman has accumulated/inflicted upon Joe-Sixpack-Walmart-HP(and those who paid way too much for a Dell), he would end up in federal prison for approximately 5,734 years without trial. The sad thing is that he didn't even do anything useful or interesting.
To me the paradox is in the topic itself. "How can I trust Firefox?" What the hell?!@?@? Has this guy become one of those folks who downloaded "precision time" once and had to have one of his 'expert' friends inform him that it was bad? Maybe it was worse and he did it at work; who knows. It's obviously fud from the dark side.
I have had to resort to trickery. I have removed all Internet Explorer icons. I have changed the names of the Firefox icons to 'Internet Explorer'. I have changed the firefox icon to the first 'big blue E' in the iexplore binary. I have had no complaints since. =)
Here's a fun little experiment. Open and ftp session to ftp.sco.com. Get the binaries 'ls' and 'gzip' from/bin. Upon examination the files appear to be statically linked gnu tools with copyright notices removed! They were nice enough to leave the copyright notice *in* the tar binary. Geez.
Hello, I am 20 and just got a computer 5 years ago. I would like to touch base with you on a few points.
1.)Linux is an operating system, it is a freely distributed clone of the unix operating system. (See 'Operating System'; 'UNIX')
2.)There are *dozens* of different 'flavors' or variants of UNIX. (See http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/unixlist.html for a large but far-from-complete list)
3.)UNIX was being developed by 'hackers' when you were 33 years old. (The word hacker was in use even at this time. The definition could be approximated to something as simple as 'computer enthusiast' but alas, it has been perverted by the media and the misinformed.)
4.)You rely on unix every day. (Have you ever eaten at Taco Bell? Have you ever had a catscan or an x-ray at the hospital? Do you read email? Do you view web pages? Can you wager a guess at what operating system(s) keep our 'precious military systems' running? Have you ever wondered how they made those dinosaurs come to life in the movie 'Jurassic Park'? UNIX makes all of these things a reality.)
5.) The correct term is 'Hack the planet'
With that out of the way, please allow me to respond on a personal note.
You speak of freedom very strongly; so strongly in fact that one may be led to beleive that your concept of freedom is very important to you. You have the freedom to express your opinion just like everyone else. You have the freedom to express your fear of something you do not understand. I find it ironic that you considder something that was created in the very spirit of freedom to have 'struck a deep blow to our freedoms'. I find it ironic that you use stereotypes and name calling to justify opinions which are grossly presented as facts. Linux/UNIX to me is a means of income, a rewarding hobby, and a great teacher. I do not use it for illegal purposes. I do not invade others' privacy, nor do I destroy anything in the process.
They say: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" I say: "Computers don't hurt people, people hurt people"
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>>They'll follow the money trail.
Yes, and they are very good at it. If you want that $299 to actually be able to function anywhere near the reasonable expectation of a 'new pc'; you will spend around a grand to make the cheapest piece of crap usable. Not to mention the $24 free shipping and the free printer for $67. How about that 6' USB A-B cable for $24.99? Dude...
That's a bunch of fckgw.
Boy am I glad I only called him a jackass in my email.
Same with lynx...
demonx@bumblebee:~$ lynx http://www.catalogueofships.com/
Looking up www.catalogueofships.com
www.catalogueofships.com
Making HTTP connection to www.catalogueofships.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Data transfer complete
lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
Exiting...
demonx@bumblebee:~$
M$-AOL. Because good clean code counts. With the track record of the software coming from said companies; we can only look forward to a stable, robust, and premium priced internet service. *shiver*
I'm pretty sure it will be tampered with.
It could probably resurrect your mom.
>>From their FAQ: Is it safe to buy HP notebooks? Absolutely. HP fully stands behind the products it makes."
HP started making Mitac and Compal laptops?!?!? Wow! HP is bigger than I thought! I guess they must be if their printer ink is the most valuable fluid on earth. =/
"(programming experience) ranging from only mainframes to C++"
Aren't those the DEC guys that Microsoft hired to build NT?
They have to pay for all those punch cards somehow.
So what the hell did you guys do with flight 77 anyway?
Cohnen kicked him in the ding-ding!
zOMFG!!1 d00dz! Yahoo's toolbar is so much better; it comes with like fourteen free programs and it's got games and a sweet chat thing. YAHOO IS TOTALLY K-RAD. HEY, I CANT USE HIGH ASCII ON THIS THING. ONLY LAMERZ USE GOOGLE DOOD.
p.s. if you find the new Y4H4X v4.7 Turbo-phisher for yahoo pager PLZ!!1 email it to me. kgr8thx.
It always makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside when the production cost of hydrogen goes down.
Someone needs to contact Penn and Teller and ask them to do a segment on the Dvorak layout. Why? Because they have a TV show on shotime called BULLSHIT that debunks thinks like the dvorak keyboard layout. If anyone cares to put this fairytale bullshit to the test PLEASE share your results. I've tried dvorak and it didn't do me a damn bit of good. It's kind of like trying to learn japanese by watchni dragon ball z, except there really is no benefit.
15 minute preamble? Add a second 128MB stick and uninstall your 90 day demo of norton internet security. You'll be golden.
I suppose he knows those fucktards that think they own the moon.
Boy did I feel like a jackass when we went to Salt Lake City and nobody could tell me where that statue of Darl McBride was.
Unplugging a computer may induce rebellion in children. Child comes home from school to find that sneaky ol dad has reached the bleeding edge of technology by installing some n*n*nnyish program access. Child talks to other child on irc; other child tells first child how to disable said program. Child then plays sweetest first person shooter of the current time frame give or take a year. Child becomes a computer technician in spare time to save on cost of computer use. Child becomes adult, starts working locally as a tech for mom n' pop shops. Adult has failed marriage and 1 child. Child expresses interest in computer games that may be offensive. Adult buys child a computer and tells them to mow lawns for software money. Instead however, child becomes computer technician in spare time.
I've got an old sparc classic running a load of woody that was installed in June of `01. It runs great for a 50MHz sun4m with 72MB of ram that is up 24/7. I suppose I will still be happy with it if it caught on fire and didn't unmount my filesystems before powering off. Thanks to Debian I have had several years of enjoyment out of a machine that was not at all enjoyable previous to becoming a penguin.
If rajr bites the dust, he will likely be replaced by a newer, faster, x86. I would be compelled to run something newer than woody on this machine.
So I will be moving on to something more mainstream in my little home user world. I think this bears some resemblence to what is happening in the business world in terms of replacing older, not-so-common hardware and software(where applicable).
Whatever happens I'll (thankfully) still be able to enjoy free software.
-Bill
If the federal prosecutors should add up all the bandwidth and PC 'repair' costs that this gentleman has accumulated/inflicted upon Joe-Sixpack-Walmart-HP(and those who paid way too much for a Dell), he would end up in federal prison for approximately 5,734 years without trial. The sad thing is that he didn't even do anything useful or interesting.
To me the paradox is in the topic itself. "How can I trust Firefox?" What the hell?!@?@? Has this guy become one of those folks who downloaded "precision time" once and had to have one of his 'expert' friends inform him that it was bad? Maybe it was worse and he did it at work; who knows. It's obviously fud from the dark side.
I have had to resort to trickery. I have removed all Internet Explorer icons. I have changed the names of the Firefox icons to 'Internet Explorer'. I have changed the firefox icon to the first 'big blue E' in the iexplore binary. I have had no complaints since. =)
Here's a fun little experiment. Open and ftp session to ftp.sco.com. Get the binaries 'ls' and 'gzip' from /bin. Upon examination the files appear to be statically linked gnu tools with copyright notices removed! They were nice enough to leave the copyright notice *in* the tar binary. Geez.
Hello, I am 20 and just got a computer 5 years ago. I would like to touch base with you on a few points.
1.)Linux is an operating system, it is a freely distributed clone of the unix operating system.
(See 'Operating System'; 'UNIX')
2.)There are *dozens* of different 'flavors' or variants of UNIX.
(See http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/unixlist.html for a large but far-from-complete list)
3.)UNIX was being developed by 'hackers' when you were 33 years old. (The word hacker was in use even at this time. The definition could be approximated to something as simple as 'computer enthusiast' but alas, it has been perverted by the media and the misinformed.)
4.)You rely on unix every day.
(Have you ever eaten at Taco Bell? Have you ever had a catscan or an x-ray at the hospital? Do you read email? Do you view web pages? Can you wager a guess at what operating system(s) keep our 'precious military systems' running? Have you ever wondered how they made those dinosaurs come to life in the movie 'Jurassic Park'? UNIX makes all of these things a reality.)
5.) The correct term is 'Hack the planet'
With that out of the way, please allow me to respond on a personal note.
You speak of freedom very strongly; so strongly in fact that one may be led to beleive that your concept of freedom is very important to you. You have the freedom to express your opinion just like everyone else. You have the freedom to express your fear of something you do not understand. I find it ironic that you considder something that was created in the very spirit of freedom to have 'struck a deep blow to our freedoms'. I find it ironic that you use stereotypes and name calling to justify opinions which are grossly presented as facts. Linux/UNIX to me is a means of income, a rewarding hobby, and a great teacher. I do not use it for illegal purposes. I do not invade others' privacy, nor do I destroy anything in the process.
They say:
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
I say:
"Computers don't hurt people, people hurt people"
It's all the same; user error.
-demonx