I'd like to know where I can get some MREs to keep in my car, actually, in case I suffer a breakdown and have to wait a while for help.
I remember seeing MREs for sale at what appeared to be a military surplus store in New York...they were pretty cheap, and I almost bought one or two. Just saying that they _can_ be found.
> I'm half suprised SO hasn't become it's own complete windowmanager:) It has.:) It does its own mouse cursor, and manages all its windows internally, using a Windows-like look. Again, this is probably for ease of cross-platform interoperability, but _damn_, does it look bad on my GNOME Aqua-themed desktop.
You hit the proverbial nail right on the proverbial head with this one. I'm a freshman at a private school (parent's choice, not mine) in NJ, a geek, and know _exactly_ what you're talking about. I mean, it's not blatant hatred that I experience most; nor is it overflowing liking.
99.44% of the time, it's just plain indifference. Because I don't like the same (crappy) music as everyone else, or enjoy the pointless sports that they do, or drool over the same celebrities, or wear the same clothes (only on weekends - stupid dress code; tie, shirt, etc), I don't fit into their world view.
And they respond by simply cutting me out of their world.
I've gone entire days without anyone speaking to me, or noticing my existence, except in class or if I literally bump into someone. Almost everywhere I go, I hear muted giggles and see people pointing (semi-discreetly) at me. And that doesn't even include the one or two _real_ assholes - the people who do things like breaking open the pathetic lock on my locker, pulling random papers out, and tearing them to shreds.
Having no one to talk to, and no one to talk to me is the most depressing thing I've ever had happen to me - excepting some rather...unpleasant incidents in elementary school I'd really rather not mention.
I can tell that even the people who _do_ occasionally pity me and talk to me a bit are a little afraid of me - and yet these are the same people (mostly girls) who not only put up with, but encourage their significant others to treat them like dirt. I could go on for pages on the psychodynamics here, I suppose, but I'd rather not spill into a 'Read the rest of this comment...'.:P
Why is it that people simply find difference so hard to accept? And why is it that such draconian measures such as WAVE are deemed necessary?
For the sake of myself, of the fellow geek whose post I responded to, and all the other underattended, ignored, abused geeks, I hope that this becomes nipped in the bud; I can just visualize the aforementioned assholes making up some story, 'ratting me out' - and showing up the next day at school, grinning wildly and waving reward checks at me as the security guards drag me into a van.
I apologize for the rambling nature of this post, and so I'll conclude succintly: we must not let this happen.
Thank you. "If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
"...IBM has developed a proprietary technique to build chips using silk, a low-k dielectric material that is commercially available from the Dow Chemical Co. (DOW.N)."
Note to self: Read article in future before posting. *selfthwack*
You bet.:P Actually, there're probably a few poorly written scripts that depend on the username, but in general, that should work... Heh, makes me wonder why more people don't do it - "Hey! I rooted this box, but I can't rm -rf/!"
Let's give the XFree86 team a big round of applause for all the hard work they've put into this. Thanks a lot - your hard work makes life all the better for us.
Isn't this what Berlin implements? Berlin uses a standard GUI API that one can write various widget-set backends for - so you could, say, use a Qt backend (hypothetically) and one day get tired and switch to GTK - and none of the apps would need recompiling or anything.
GLHeretic looks GREAT, even on my crappy Riva 128ZX. The graphics are very smooth (only a few artifacts here and there, and that's probably my aforementioned crappy card at work), it runs fast, and in short, is uber-playable. Only downside is that the configuration file is weird - I can't figure out how to bind keys. Still, though, this is a GREAT game - now if I could only find my CD for the full WAD...
Enh... I'd have to say that GNUstep-gui does, seeing as that WINGS was essentially created as a simplified version of that library. I do, however, agree that it is a _very_ nice look.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
How Linux/*BSD (can,will) benefit from this.
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What has been the major objection of many PHBs to using Linux on servers or workstations? "We're not willing to trust something that's free". Now that a defintively mainstream OS has become free (as in beer, alas, not as in speech yet), perhaps they'll start taking Linux more seriously. Just my $0.02.
80M is impressively small, yes. But Linux can get even smaller while remaining fully functional... Take a look at muLinux (search fm, forgot the URL). On one floppy, it contains a large number of server daemons, plus a fair amount of small apps. Add another floppy, and you have X11 with a simple graphical browser and choice of 3 windowmanagers. Add another - extra kernel modules, scsi, and other goodies. Another - GCC and headers. A 5th - x/svncviewer. The sixth floppy has Tcl/Tk. Each floppy is 1722k, so that adds up to... 10332k - a little over 10M. Windows can't TOUCH that amount of functionality. in that little space. "If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I hated divx from the beginning. I also hate this from the beginning... Besides the obvious, think of the ripoff potential...unethical video stores (online OR b&m) could sell these as real DVDs, although that wouldn't last very long. But stores could also sell partially used (returned early) timed DVDs, and blame the early failure of the movies on "technical glitches". Dumbness and abuse potential...ah, the beautiful results of invention and greed mixing. </rant>
Not to make this a flamewar or anything, but... Links, my favorite text browser, does everything w3m and Lynx do, but better. Links supports background downloading, colors, and renders stuff (even slashdot) much better than I've seen either Lynx or w3m do.
The electric hand dryer does not even qualify as a gadget, period. Those things are awful - it takes forever to dry your hands, and they make as much noise as my roomful of boxen:). Seriously, I'd have put something like Ethernet in its place - without networks, we'd never come as far.
A few years ago, Apple acquired Jobs' company, NeXT, with the implications that the technology (ie the beautiful UI, the DPS WindowServer, etc) would be worked into MacOS at some point. Aside from OS X having a Mach microkernel and NetInfo, I've seen no signs of NeXT technology being used. IMHO, it'd be a crime to allow it to go to waste - do you have an opinion on this?
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Ultimate keyboard? NeXT, definitely
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I'd have to say the best keyboard I've used is the one hooked up to my NeXTstation. It has a massive spacebar, no capslock key, escape key not in limbo, etc, etc. Plus, it has the best feel of any keyboard I've ever used - just clicky enough. It would be perfect if it had Fkeys and pgup/pgdn or keys shiftable to these. But it's as close as I've found to perfection.
Is it just me, or do none of the distributed computing projects seem to be OSS? I have a rather odd system in he corner (NeXTstation Color running NeXTstep 3.3) which I'd love to use for distributed computing. However, none of the projects I've seen have a NeXTstep client, and none of them are OSS, so I can't port it myself. Information and/or suggestions will be appreciated.
My server/workstation (soon to be completely the former, as soon as I can afford another box) is named aether. My NeXT is named monolith (it's a station, and thus a black slab). If I manage to obtain a SPARC, I'll be naming it sol, and my badly needed workstation will also need a name. Suggestions?
I'm worried now. I really am. My school wouldn't hesitate for an instant to deploy Mosaic-2000 - it's Conformist Heaven. Athletes and the like get exemptions from classes (excused due to "stress from games and practices"), and I get lectured for telneting home to check my mail. The "popular" people get away with outrageous dress code violations (yes, we have one, and I loathe it), whereas the "fringe" people get nailed for having untucked shirts. You get the idea. We can't let this get worse. This has to be stopped.
I logged in right after school today, and this was right at the top of the newspage. What a way to end the day.:P Seriously, though, with a bit of work (like making it difficult/impossible for vital processes to be killed - i.e. make init a Cyberdemon:P), this could make system administration much less stressful. One question though - will it work on lusers?
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I'd like to know where I can get some MREs to keep in my car, actually, in case I suffer a breakdown and have to wait a while for help.
I remember seeing MREs for sale at what appeared to be a military surplus store in New York...they were pretty cheap, and I almost bought one or two. Just saying that they _can_ be found.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
> I'm half suprised SO hasn't become it's own complete windowmanager :) :) It does its own mouse cursor, and manages all its windows internally, using a Windows-like look.
It has.
Again, this is probably for ease of cross-platform interoperability, but _damn_, does it look bad on my GNOME Aqua-themed desktop.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
You hit the proverbial nail right on the proverbial head with this one. I'm a freshman at a private school (parent's choice, not mine) in NJ, a geek, and know _exactly_ what you're talking about. I mean, it's not blatant hatred that I experience most; nor is it overflowing liking.
:P
99.44% of the time, it's just plain indifference. Because I don't like the same (crappy) music as everyone else, or enjoy the pointless sports that they do, or drool over the same celebrities, or wear the same clothes (only on weekends - stupid dress code; tie, shirt, etc), I don't fit into their world view.
And they respond by simply cutting me out of their world.
I've gone entire days without anyone speaking to me, or noticing my existence, except in class or if I literally bump into someone. Almost everywhere I go, I hear muted giggles and see people pointing (semi-discreetly) at me. And that doesn't even include the one or two _real_ assholes - the people who do things like breaking open the pathetic lock on my locker, pulling random papers out, and tearing them to shreds.
Having no one to talk to, and no one to talk to me is the most depressing thing I've ever had happen to me - excepting some rather...unpleasant incidents in elementary school I'd really rather not mention.
I can tell that even the people who _do_ occasionally pity me and talk to me a bit are a little afraid of me - and yet these are the same people (mostly girls) who not only put up with, but encourage their significant others to treat them like dirt. I could go on for pages on the psychodynamics here, I suppose, but I'd rather not spill into a 'Read the rest of this comment...'.
Why is it that people simply find difference so hard to accept? And why is it that such draconian measures such as WAVE are deemed necessary?
For the sake of myself, of the fellow geek whose post I responded to, and all the other underattended, ignored, abused geeks, I hope that this becomes nipped in the bud; I can just visualize the aforementioned assholes making up some story, 'ratting me out' - and showing up the next day at school, grinning wildly and waving reward checks at me as the security guards drag me into a van.
I apologize for the rambling nature of this post, and so I'll conclude succintly: we must not let this happen.
Thank you.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
"...IBM has developed a proprietary technique to build chips using silk, a low-k dielectric material that is commercially available from the Dow Chemical Co. (DOW.N)."
Note to self: Read article in future before posting. *selfthwack*
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Silk. As in the threadlike material that comes from silkworm bottoms.
I had absolutely no idea that silk had applications to electronics. Go figure.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
You bet. :P /!"
Actually, there're probably a few poorly written scripts that depend on the username, but in general, that should work...
Heh, makes me wonder why more people don't do it - "Hey! I rooted this box, but I can't rm -rf
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
one word: xcruise. :P
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Let's give the XFree86 team a big round of applause for all the hard work they've put into this. Thanks a lot - your hard work makes life all the better for us.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Isn't this what Berlin implements? Berlin uses a standard GUI API that one can write various widget-set backends for - so you could, say, use a Qt backend (hypothetically) and one day get tired and switch to GTK - and none of the apps would need recompiling or anything.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
GLHeretic looks GREAT, even on my crappy Riva 128ZX. The graphics are very smooth
(only a few artifacts here and there, and that's probably my aforementioned crappy card at work),
it runs fast, and in short, is uber-playable. Only downside is that the configuration file is weird -
I can't figure out how to bind keys. Still, though, this is a GREAT game - now if I could only find my CD for the full WAD...
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Glad I held on to some of my VA stock, considering what mergers tend to do to stock prices. :)
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Enh...
I'd have to say that GNUstep-gui does, seeing as that WINGS was essentially created as a simplified version of that library. I do, however, agree that it is a _very_ nice look.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
What has been the major objection of many PHBs to using Linux on servers or workstations?
"We're not willing to trust something that's free".
Now that a defintively mainstream OS has become free (as in beer, alas, not as in speech yet), perhaps they'll start taking Linux more seriously.
Just my $0.02.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
80M is impressively small, yes. But Linux can get even smaller while remaining fully functional...
Take a look at muLinux (search fm, forgot the URL). On one floppy, it contains a large number of server daemons, plus a fair amount of small apps. Add another floppy, and you have X11 with a simple graphical browser and choice of 3 windowmanagers. Add another - extra kernel modules, scsi, and other goodies. Another - GCC and headers. A 5th - x/svncviewer. The sixth floppy has Tcl/Tk. Each floppy is 1722k, so that adds up to... 10332k - a little over 10M. Windows can't TOUCH that amount of functionality. in that little space.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I hated divx from the beginning. I also hate this from the beginning...
Besides the obvious, think of the ripoff potential...unethical video stores (online OR b&m) could sell these as real DVDs, although that wouldn't last very long. But stores could also sell partially used (returned early) timed DVDs, and blame the early failure of the movies on "technical glitches". Dumbness and abuse potential...ah, the beautiful results of invention and greed mixing.
</rant>
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Not to make this a flamewar or anything, but...
Links, my favorite text browser, does everything w3m and Lynx do, but better. Links supports background downloading, colors, and renders stuff (even slashdot) much better than I've seen either Lynx or w3m do.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
The electric hand dryer does not even qualify as a gadget, period. Those things are awful - it takes forever to dry your hands, and they make as much noise as my roomful of boxen :). Seriously, I'd have put something like Ethernet in its place - without networks, we'd never come as far.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
A few years ago, Apple acquired Jobs' company, NeXT, with the implications that the technology (ie the beautiful UI, the DPS WindowServer, etc) would be worked into MacOS at some point. Aside from OS X having a Mach microkernel and NetInfo, I've seen no signs of NeXT technology being used. IMHO, it'd be a crime to allow it to go to waste - do you have an opinion on this?
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I'd have to say the best keyboard I've used is the one hooked up to my NeXTstation. It has a massive spacebar, no capslock key, escape key not in limbo, etc, etc. Plus, it has the best feel of any keyboard I've ever used - just clicky enough. It would be perfect if it had Fkeys and pgup/pgdn or keys shiftable to these. But it's as close as I've found to perfection.
Lynx? Bah. w3m? bah. Links is the best textmode web browser.
It does everything lynx and w3m do, and them some.
It's available at: http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~miku las/links/
Is it just me, or do none of the distributed computing projects seem to be OSS? I have a rather odd system in he corner (NeXTstation Color running NeXTstep 3.3) which I'd love to use for distributed computing. However, none of the projects I've seen have a NeXTstep client, and none of them are OSS, so I can't port it myself.
Information and/or suggestions will be appreciated.
My server/workstation (soon to be completely the former, as soon as I can afford another box) is named aether. My NeXT is named monolith (it's a station, and thus a black slab). If I manage to obtain a SPARC, I'll be naming it sol, and my badly needed workstation will also need a name. Suggestions?
I'm worried now. I really am. My school wouldn't hesitate for an instant to deploy Mosaic-2000 - it's Conformist Heaven. Athletes and the like get exemptions from classes (excused due to "stress from games and practices"), and I get lectured for telneting home to check my mail. The "popular" people get away with outrageous dress code violations (yes, we have one, and I loathe it), whereas the "fringe" people get nailed for having untucked shirts. You get the idea.
We can't let this get worse. This has to be stopped.
How to HUP a process? One word:Taser. :P
I logged in right after school today, and this was right at the top of the newspage. What a way to end the day. :P :P), this could make system administration much less stressful. One question though - will it work on lusers?
Seriously, though, with a bit of work (like making it difficult/impossible for vital processes to be killed - i.e. make init a Cyberdemon