I'm sure I'm going to get the (+5 funny) crap kicked out of me here, but size does matter. Just in different ways to different women.
I'm lucky enough to have several female friends* who've watched or discussed porn with me. Invariably they'll gasp in horror at the schlongage on display. Comments will range from 'wow, what a trooper' (regarding the female performer) to 'aieee scary penis!'.
* yes that sentence could've ended there:-)
In my experience, Women prefer girth to length, but not too much of either to prevent serious pain...
Straying yet further from the topic, well trimmed clean fingernails and a well trained tongue are far more useful than those 3xtr4 |nch35 that people keep trying to sell me:-)
The article said, at least the way I read it, that Novell was going to write yet another desktop combining the 'best' features of both KDE and Gnome. Not combine the two but create a third version. Whether such a third way will take off among anyone other than Novell's corporate customers, will be interesting to watch.
BIAS: I prefer Gnome to KDE and am using it right now; I hope that Ximian's involvement in all this will steer the new hybrid offspring desktop in a more Gnome-ish direction.
(And here's hoping that the improvements they create will filter back down to us poor Gnome|KDE users).
Or maybe they should just license MacOSX' desktop UI:-)
You have to put acpi=on at the boot prompt to enable acpi, then acpid will work. If you want acpi to do more than just sit there taking memory, then look here:
So how do I add a magic line to my sources.list or yum.conf to allow me to upgrade to this 'release'? Will upgrading be as easy as apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade ?
It's easy to do. I used to pronounce macabre as Mack-a-brr not mah-cah-br. My wife just this weekend asked what the hell Cham-oh-lee was when holding a pack of Chamomile tea. (she uses chamomile shampoo and has no problem saying it in that context, yet as a foodstuff, she was flu-mox-eed).
We keep 2 working-day-weeks of backups on tape. Tapes are way cheaper than disk once you scale to that amount. I've yet to see a disk solution that comes close to that.
Not to sound smug here but my Wife and I got out of debt.
Minimal presents to other people, no big dinner or tree and no huge tech presents for either of us. Instead we sneaked past the finish line in our "Debt Free in 2003" goal.
This Christmas is bare by many western standards, but now we can start saving for a deposit for a house. (Yeah, more debt there but what can one do about that?).
This will accepted by the vast majority of consumers. Why?
I'll use my wife as an example. When we realised that we were getting deeper into debt, she refused completely to ditch the TV and it's attendant 50+ dollar a month fees. She views TV as a neccessity, not as a luxury.
So does everyone else, and they don't care one little bit about anything other than when the next episode of Friends is on*.
* my wife doesn't actually watch Friends - she tivos Changing Rooms, Good Eats and Daily Show episodes.
I've recently been attempting to get a 'Linux Desktop' working for some of our phd students. A requirement is that they are able to mount their windows home directories. Problem is, that our windows homedirs are of the//server/firstinitial/username syntax. Which of course smbmount can't cope with.
Speaking as someone who just installed gentoo on a dual opteron*, I can tell you that it'll take a lot longer than 3 days to make the necessary code changes for kde and gnome to compile.
That said, less than 2 hours to bootstrap and emerge system is most wonderful.
* The dual opteron now has suse back on it, due to the opteron/clisp clusterfuck.
Can someone explain to me how the ps2 runs linux? I remember an article a while back saying linux runs in some kind of virtual machine or sandboxed application.
And furthermore, why is gentoo on ps2 special? (apart from the benefits of emerge et al)
Talk America gives us good service. We pay 50 bucks / month for unlimited local and long distance (within SE Michigan). It's cheap to call my Mum in the UK. The only problem we have is that ameritech used to 'pulse' the dialtone to tell us we had voicemail.
Corporate types wait for a certain number of complaints before doing anything. If enough people complain (and promise to buy the Home Media Option if DirecTV make it available) then DirecTV will do something about it
Go here and tell them how disappointed you are and how you you want to buy this. Mention that you'll complain to J D Power Consumer Satisfaction Survey which should make them take notice; DirecTV really values their high customer satisfaction rating and use it as a selling point.
Yeah, of course every consumer is going to share their broadband connection with every stranger geek walking past.
Consumers don't share, they consume. Peer to Peer is all about taking, not sharing. Most of the 'clueless home users' I know (and I can think of half a dozen right now) only share what they download; they don't add new resource to the network.
Once Joe(ly) consumer realises that his/her mp3s and porn will download 10% slower because of all this sharing of connections, he/she will call tech support, who will tell them how to restrict access to their own PCs.
For the people by the people doesn't work when most of the people are selfish.
While working at Sony, Microsoft closed down a UK R&D facility. A whole department of ex-MS software engineers came to work in my department. They were the some of the best engineers I have ever worked with, designing innovative and stable code years ahead of its time.
Stop picking on MS engineers for poor products, and level the blame at the correct place - marketing and management.
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I'm fairly certain the recoil from even a small pistol would send one of these drone out of control.
Better, imho, would be a small charge or grenade.
How much does a grenade weigh? How small a charge can be used to kill everyone within a 5mx5m room?
Ah the old size doesn't matter joke
:-)
:-)
I'm sure I'm going to get the (+5 funny) crap kicked out of me here, but size does matter. Just in different ways to different women.
I'm lucky enough to have several female friends* who've watched or discussed porn with me. Invariably they'll gasp in horror at the schlongage on display. Comments will range from 'wow, what a trooper' (regarding the female performer) to 'aieee scary penis!'.
* yes that sentence could've ended there
In my experience, Women prefer girth to length, but not too much of either to prevent serious pain...
Straying yet further from the topic, well trimmed clean fingernails and a well trained tongue are far more useful than those 3xtr4 |nch35 that people keep trying to sell me
The article said, at least the way I read it, that Novell was going to write yet another desktop combining the 'best' features of both KDE and Gnome. Not combine the two but create a third version. Whether such a third way will take off among anyone other than Novell's corporate customers, will be interesting to watch.
:-)
BIAS: I prefer Gnome to KDE and am using it right now; I hope that Ximian's involvement in all this will steer the new hybrid offspring desktop in a more Gnome-ish direction.
(And here's hoping that the improvements they create will filter back down to us poor Gnome|KDE users).
Or maybe they should just license MacOSX' desktop UI
You have to put acpi=on at the boot prompt to enable acpi, then acpid will work. If you want acpi to do more than just sit there taking memory, then look here:
/ h ig hlight=acpih p?t=122145&po stdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25
/proc/acpi which has cool things like 'cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance' :
;-)
http://cknoerle.homelinux.org/nx9000/stuff/acpi
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=80077&
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p
acpi support enables
state count: 2
active state: P0
states:
*P0: 1200 MHz, 20000 mW, 500 uS
P1: 800 MHz, 13500 mW, 500 uS
You can then echo 1:0 > performance to change down to 800MHz.
Of course, that's not at all like XPs nice'n'noodly handling of ACPI, but it's way more transparent and configurable. Hey, just like Linux!
Allegedly you can download just the first disc and choose a 'minimal' install, then use yum or apt-get* to install the packages you want.
Can anyone confirm this?
* only yum is installed by default, apt-get you have to snag from http://freshrpms.net/
So how do I add a magic line to my sources.list or yum.conf to allow me to upgrade to this 'release'? Will upgrading be as easy as apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade ?
It's easy to do. I used to pronounce macabre as Mack-a-brr not mah-cah-br. My wife just this weekend asked what the hell Cham-oh-lee was when holding a pack of Chamomile tea. (she uses chamomile shampoo and has no problem saying it in that context, yet as a foodstuff, she was flu-mox-eed).
(-1 offtopic but who the hell cares?)
You'd have to buy 10 more.
We keep 2 working-day-weeks of backups on tape. Tapes are way cheaper than disk once you scale to that amount. I've yet to see a disk solution that comes close to that.
Not to sound smug here but my Wife and I got out of debt.
Minimal presents to other people, no big dinner or tree and no huge tech presents for either of us. Instead we sneaked past the finish line in our "Debt Free in 2003" goal.
This Christmas is bare by many western standards, but now we can start saving for a deposit for a house. (Yeah, more debt there but what can one do about that?).
This new particle should be called a Mysteron
This will accepted by the vast majority of consumers. Why?
I'll use my wife as an example. When we realised that we were getting deeper into debt, she refused completely to ditch the TV and it's attendant 50+ dollar a month fees. She views TV as a neccessity, not as a luxury.
So does everyone else, and they don't care one little bit about anything other than when the next episode of Friends is on*.
* my wife doesn't actually watch Friends - she tivos Changing Rooms, Good Eats and Daily Show episodes.
I've recently been attempting to get a 'Linux Desktop' working for some of our phd students. A requirement is that they are able to mount their windows home directories. Problem is, that our windows homedirs are of the //server/firstinitial/username syntax. Which of course smbmount can't cope with.
Both sides need to work together more...
Speaking as someone who just installed gentoo on a dual opteron*, I can tell you that it'll take a lot longer than 3 days to make the necessary code changes for kde and gnome to compile.
That said, less than 2 hours to bootstrap and emerge system is most wonderful.
* The dual opteron now has suse back on it, due to the opteron/clisp clusterfuck.
Can someone explain to me how the ps2 runs linux? I remember an article a while back saying linux runs in some kind of virtual machine or sandboxed application.
And furthermore, why is gentoo on ps2 special? (apart from the benefits of emerge et al)
Talk America gives us good service. We pay 50 bucks / month for unlimited local and long distance (within SE Michigan). It's cheap to call my Mum in the UK. The only problem we have is that ameritech used to 'pulse' the dialtone to tell us we had voicemail.
Actually, the reason /. is reporting Apple news a lot is that all the /. crew bought powerbooks and have become born-again Mac users ;-)
Complain!
Corporate types wait for a certain number of complaints before doing anything. If enough people complain (and promise to buy the Home Media Option if DirecTV make it available) then DirecTV will do something about it
Go here and tell them how disappointed you are and how you you want to buy this. Mention that you'll complain to J D Power Consumer Satisfaction Survey which should make them take notice; DirecTV really values their high customer satisfaction rating and use it as a selling point.
Well, the impending/current loss of profits hasn't stopped them from holding their global conference in the south of france.
Mr Shatner,
What is the scariest experience you have ever had with one of your adoring fans?
Ironic that awards for technologies with dubious benefits are being streamed in RealVideo...
Yeah, of course every consumer is going to share their broadband connection with every stranger geek walking past.
Consumers don't share, they consume. Peer to Peer is all about taking, not sharing. Most of the 'clueless home users' I know (and I can think of half a dozen right now) only share what they download; they don't add new resource to the network.
Once Joe(ly) consumer realises that his/her mp3s and porn will download 10% slower because of all this sharing of connections, he/she will call tech support, who will tell them how to restrict access to their own PCs.
For the people by the people doesn't work when most of the people are selfish.
While working at Sony, Microsoft closed down a UK R&D facility. A whole department of ex-MS software engineers came to work in my department. They were the some of the best engineers I have ever worked with, designing innovative and stable code years ahead of its time.
Stop picking on MS engineers for poor products, and level the blame at the correct place - marketing and management.
I'll be more impressed when a Cloak of Charisma is released; hellloooo, laydeez|boyz!
(and no, those new cargo pants you just bought from Gap do not count).
FUCK YOU
that's better...
and this has lots of details, and some specific, recent commentaries on MS share price fraud...