I recently tried Debian, going through setup was fine, until running tasksel. I did this a few times, and each time, tasksel crapped out. I also tried the dselect, or whatever it's called... tried wading through the 1000's of packages, and said screw it. I blew a few hours trying to get Debian up and running. I decided it wasn't worth the hassle, put Slackware 9.0 back on, and was up and running with a pretty KDE, TTF's, etc, within an hour. Slackware's setup is incredibly simpler. Plus, I hate trying new distributions and trying to figure out what goofy-ass utility is meant to do what. It's always a challenge to figure out what executable to run, and I've never seen a distribution that has a webpage with a nice, short, easy-to-read list of setup/config executables and what they do.
With Slackware, type setup, that's it.
While I like the idea of the apt-get thing, the crappy setup in Debian turned me off.
Shrek blew dogs. It literally featured a jackass making fart jokes. The only half way creative/fun scene was the gingerbread man interrogation. Shrek is/was crap, pure crap. Unfortunately, the American public eats that crap up. Bastards!
I agree that MS Office is the standard, and it is where I work. However, one would hope that end users wouldn't need to take a class to learn the other. Unfortunately, my experience is that end users do not think about what they're actually doing, but memorize steps needed to accomplish their goals. Most of them anyway. There is the small, say less than 10 percent of end users who do actually think, and are able to figure stuff out on their own.
Anyhoo... I've tried Ability Office, and it seems pretty slick, and it does have the PHB "It's got to be better than that free crap if we have to pay for it" factor. Unfortunately, the infrastructure set up whereby all pcs for organizations are pre-installed with MS operating system and productivity suite would be hard to sway. Also consider that the office suite isn't the main reason why people use pcs in many environments, like mine. As such, it's just easier to go with whatever's fed to us without having to think about it very hard.
But, having dabbled with AO, yes, it does seem pretty nice.
I've been thinking lately of making a script that would generate fake email addresses and include it on a webpage; such that the fake email address list gets re-build on every hit. It would create addresses like xxxxx@yyyyy.com|net Where xxxxx is a random alpha-numeric sequence, yyyyy is a random alpha-numeric sequence. Or, perhaps yyyyy would be a random valid word from a dictionary or other list.
The goal would be to feed the bots so many fakes that they choke on the bounced undeliverables, or, they make note not to harvest there again.
But, maybe the bots look out for web pages containing more than X number of emails? Any thoughts on this?
I've been using Opera for a long time, have even purchased it. I've recently tried Mozilla. In order to replicate the cool features of Opera, I've had to jump through a lot of hoops. It just isn't as slick, user-friendly, or consistant. Why download a bunch of crap extras when you can just get it all bundled together nicely in Opera? Mozilla is free only if you don't value hassle.
RED is best for faxes, copies, scanning, etc. It shows up as black. Blue is the worst, esp. light blue. When I used to do a lot of faxing, I used red felt-tips exclusively.
My favorite April Fools was to leave one of those pink Message slips - in the days before pc's - saying to please call Mr. Lyon, with the zoo's phone number (must live in a city with a zoo).
The victim would then call the zoo, and ask for Mr. Lyon. Most of the zoo people are/were familiar with this, and would say something like "Mr Lion isn't available, he's playing with Mr. Bear right now." or some such.
Well... seeing how most actual users are familiar with the Windows type GUI, trying to replicate that seems like a good idea if you're trying to get those actual users to use it. Usability isn't necessarily the same thing as Best Super Duper Ever.
As evil as MS is, they do sell the products that people are most familiar with and actually use. If you can build a better mousetrap, knock yourself out.
The article doesn't mention printing. Any idea whether this thing has a viable printing system; i.e., not just to lpt1 but network queue printing and IP printing? You can make the prettiest OS in the world, but one thing people can't stand is struggling to get stuff printed.
FYI, most people in the USA don't give a rat's ass about baseball either. These days, it's the homoerotic frenzy of football (no, not soccer, football). Go figure.
Here's my favorite use of Notepad and Wordpad; when viewing text containing just CR's, or just LF's, I forget which, instead of CRLF's, Notepad doesn't automatically convert this for you. Wordpad does. So, Wordpad is useful as a viewer when you'd like to see stuff layed out with nice newlines; just be careful not to Save. Notepad is nice to see text more acurately. Sure, I know at least one person will reply with "But my Linux/Mac/Commodore editor can do this and more!", but at work, I do have to use MS products, not Linux/Mac/Commodore (though I do have a Slackware machine running right next to my required MS one)....
What this gentleman didn't consider is that most of us would prefer to spend $20-$40 on a videogame we would play for weeks, than $20-$40 to go to a movie for 2 hours and have a bag of popcorn.
Most of us is not most of everyone. Most of everyone goes to the movies a lot more than they buy games.
I haven't seen this film... but, the fact that the guy goes from normal size, then grows enormous, as do his clothes. Sure, they're ripped a little, but they go from underoo's size, to the size of a tent, and back again. And, they remain on him. Go figure.
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Yet another innovation to benefit the Drug Running industry. Bravo!
I recently tried Debian, going through setup was fine, until running tasksel. I did this a few times, and each time, tasksel crapped out. I also tried the dselect, or whatever it's called... tried wading through the 1000's of packages, and said screw it. I blew a few hours trying to get Debian up and running. I decided it wasn't worth the hassle, put Slackware 9.0 back on, and was up and running with a pretty KDE, TTF's, etc, within an hour. Slackware's setup is incredibly simpler. Plus, I hate trying new distributions and trying to figure out what goofy-ass utility is meant to do what. It's always a challenge to figure out what executable to run, and I've never seen a distribution that has a webpage with a nice, short, easy-to-read list of setup/config executables and what they do.
With Slackware, type setup, that's it.
While I like the idea of the apt-get thing, the crappy setup in Debian turned me off.
Shrek blew dogs. It literally featured a jackass making fart jokes. The only half way creative/fun scene was the gingerbread man interrogation. Shrek is/was crap, pure crap. Unfortunately, the American public eats that crap up. Bastards!
I agree that MS Office is the standard, and it is where I work. However, one would hope that end users wouldn't need to take a class to learn the other. Unfortunately, my experience is that end users do not think about what they're actually doing, but memorize steps needed to accomplish their goals. Most of them anyway. There is the small, say less than 10 percent of end users who do actually think, and are able to figure stuff out on their own.
Anyhoo... I've tried Ability Office, and it seems pretty slick, and it does have the PHB "It's got to be better than that free crap if we have to pay for it" factor. Unfortunately, the infrastructure set up whereby all pcs for organizations are pre-installed with MS operating system and productivity suite would be hard to sway. Also consider that the office suite isn't the main reason why people use pcs in many environments, like mine. As such, it's just easier to go with whatever's fed to us without having to think about it very hard.
But, having dabbled with AO, yes, it does seem pretty nice.
Really, how hard can that be. Or do you get paid per post?
SOLDIER1: Gosh, they're attacking! I better activate my Linux armor (armour for UK soldiers).Armor fails to activate.
SOLDIER1: Oh my god, I have no armor!
SOLDIER2: You did compile armor into your kernel, didn't you?
SOLDIER1: Colonel? Huh?
SOLDIER2: No, your Kernel you stupid ass newbie! You obviously suck, go die!
SOLDIER1: Huh?
SOLDIER2: Why don't you RTFM, ass-face?
SOLDIER1: Huh?
SOLDIER2: At least insert a module! Crap, you're stupid!
SOLDIER1: I'm outta here! Runs away from approaching Baddies.
SOLDIER2: Uh... Oh Crap! Help! Help!
It turns out that the L33T HAX0R SOLDIER2 is too fat to flee, is beaten to death by a 90 year old weilding a large salami.
Like... the pitter-patter of rain, moisture in the soil, ground vibrations cause by other things, like nearby animals, fishermen, etc?
I've been thinking lately of making a script that would generate fake email addresses and include it on a webpage; such that the fake email address list gets re-build on every hit. It would create addresses like xxxxx@yyyyy.com|net Where xxxxx is a random alpha-numeric sequence, yyyyy is a random alpha-numeric sequence. Or, perhaps yyyyy would be a random valid word from a dictionary or other list.
The goal would be to feed the bots so many fakes that they choke on the bounced undeliverables, or, they make note not to harvest there again.
But, maybe the bots look out for web pages containing more than X number of emails? Any thoughts on this?
... being more then just pro-Microsoft.
At risk of being called a grammar Nazi, I must point out the differences between Then and Than. Here are some examples of proper usage of each:
THAN. I am smarter THAN you.
THEN. Why don't you shut up THEN?
THAN. You are dumber THAN a rock.
THEN. I'll go cry THEN.
Please, make an effort.
Please, please, oh please!!!!
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I've been using Opera for a long time, have even purchased it. I've recently tried Mozilla. In order to replicate the cool features of Opera, I've had to jump through a lot of hoops. It just isn't as slick, user-friendly, or consistant. Why download a bunch of crap extras when you can just get it all bundled together nicely in Opera? Mozilla is free only if you don't value hassle.
RED is best for faxes, copies, scanning, etc. It shows up as black. Blue is the worst, esp. light blue. When I used to do a lot of faxing, I used red felt-tips exclusively.
My favorite April Fools was to leave one of those pink Message slips - in the days before pc's - saying to please call Mr. Lyon, with the zoo's phone number (must live in a city with a zoo).
The victim would then call the zoo, and ask for Mr. Lyon. Most of the zoo people are/were familiar with this, and would say something like "Mr Lion isn't available, he's playing with Mr. Bear right now." or some such.
Well... seeing how most actual users are familiar with the Windows type GUI, trying to replicate that seems like a good idea if you're trying to get those actual users to use it.
Usability isn't necessarily the same thing as Best Super Duper Ever.
As evil as MS is, they do sell the products that people are most familiar with and actually use. If you can build a better mousetrap, knock yourself out.
The article doesn't mention printing. Any idea whether this thing has a viable printing system; i.e., not just to lpt1 but network queue printing and IP printing? You can make the prettiest OS in the world, but one thing people can't stand is struggling to get stuff printed.
FYI, most people in the USA don't give a rat's ass about baseball either. These days, it's the homoerotic frenzy of football (no, not soccer, football). Go figure.
Wasn't he in the 80's Super Group Foreigner? Or Journey?
Here's my favorite use of Notepad and Wordpad; when viewing text containing just CR's, or just LF's, I forget which, instead of CRLF's, Notepad doesn't automatically convert this for you. Wordpad does. So, Wordpad is useful as a viewer when you'd like to see stuff layed out with nice newlines; just be careful not to Save. Notepad is nice to see text more acurately.
Sure, I know at least one person will reply with "But my Linux/Mac/Commodore editor can do this and more!", but at work, I do have to use MS products, not Linux/Mac/Commodore (though I do have a Slackware machine running right next to my required MS one)....
What this gentleman didn't consider is that most of us would prefer to spend $20-$40 on a videogame we would play for weeks, than $20-$40 to go to a movie for 2 hours and have a bag of popcorn.
Most of us is not most of everyone. Most of everyone goes to the movies a lot more than they buy games.
This one is sometimes pretty good.
Here's the LINK and the url: http://www.normalbobsmith.com/pfss_comic10.html
I think it'll be shipping with a tie-in promotional product, like a bottle of KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce.
Here's a http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/200308 29/t/1062184970.2617294885.jpg link to a photo of this winner.
Just pop that dinosaur on a Segway, problem solved.
You're welcome.
"Walt Disney has contributed more happiness to the world than all the religions combined."
Sure, but has he Walt killed and tortured as many?
I THINK NOT!
I haven't seen this film... but, the fact that the guy goes from normal size, then grows enormous, as do his clothes. Sure, they're ripped a little, but they go from underoo's size, to the size of a tent, and back again. And, they remain on him. Go figure.
Is there such a thing? It's tiresome reading through all the changelogs (2.4.21 -> pre1 -> pre2 -> etc).
Thanks