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All hail Lord Stallman; praise to St Ignucius.
Those "linux libraries" are not "linux" libraries, they are GNU libraries.
That's why they run on things that aren't linux.
Re:As soon as I figure what this things does....
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One of the nice things about Debian is that if I apt-get remove something, before removing it, apt-get will tell me if it's going to have to remove other things that depend on it, and give me the chance to cancel.
Does redcarpet not do this?
Re:As soon as I figure what this things does....
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I hazard a guess that was glibc, not glib. glibc is fundamental to your system - it is the GNU C library. glib is a bunch of nice things that GTK uses.
Cognitive function comes heavily into play, and it's at this point when the truly talented rise above the masses of people who simply title themselves "computer technicians."
You need to explain what you have against the title "computer technician". I am one, and I consider myself both talented and cognitively functional.
I consider computer technicians to be important and valuable. The shitty technicians are not, but that goes for any profession, including ones that agrandise themselves with more lofty monickers - which I consider to be so much hot air.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! While I agree that physical co-ordination is something some people are good at, and some people are bad at, I cannot go along with your crazed idea that education is something that happens to someone given enough time.
Schools, colleges, training courses etc. don't educate anyone. They provide an opportunity for people to learn. Some people will learn just enough to get by. Others will learn everything presented to them and more off their own bat. Yet others (me) will say "fuck this" and learn everything they need to know themselves whilst also earning some money. And some won't be able to keep up and will drop out and get a McJob.
Education is no guarantee of learning, but learning is a guarantee of education.
having to compile every damn thing before I could use it, turned me off. THe linux community should learn to offer binary executables and source because I simply just don't like the hassle of the extra step.
What are you blethering about? Provision of binary executables is the purpose of GNU/Linux distributions.
I have not run Windows at home for about five years, and I don't miss it in the slightest. I have a server for NFS, web, mail and other bits and bobs. I have an IBM Thinkpad which is my main work horse. I have an ancient Toshiba Libretto hooked up to my amplifier for playing music.
All of these run Debian. I can't remember the last thing I had to compile by hand; Debian has so many packages prebuilt that I rarely have to build something myself. Either it's already there, or something else is there that does the same job.
If I do need to compile somthing, Debian ensures I don't end up in dependency hell because almost all Free libraries are packaged. I grant you - RedHat used to be a pain. Trying to compile an up-to-date Gnome 1.0 for RedHat 5.1 was the last straw that switched me over to a distro built by it's users. But I'm pretty sure RedHat is much better these days anyway.
My day job desktop is Windows NT 4.0 SP6 and I get through the day but it can hardly be called convenient. It's so lowest-common-dominator that I end up installing all sorts of utilities that are missed out in the shipped OS. I fear Windows XP because I don't want to work in a cartoon.
And finally, I bathe in the warmth of the freedom of GNU/Linux. I don't have to invoke it much, but I know that if I do have to, I can get the source and fix it. Thanks Linus, RMS, et al.
Unfortunately, Car or Car's server is sustaining the assault exceptionally well, whereas the SCCA site is struggling to serve up their page to me... I've been waiting three minutes so far....
10 out of 10 evil points to the perpetrators for a well-executed sin.
I can't print block capitals for more than a sentence or so without getting a quite intense pain in my wrist.
I'm not alone! You know exactly how I feel!
My writing has, historically, been abysmal. I dropped out of a remedial handwriting class at high school! They put this rubber prism-shaped thing on a pencil... very uncomfortable!
However, over the years I have more and more relaxed while writing and I write joined-up (as we call 'cursive' in the UK) all the time - and other people can read it! Sometimes I couldn't decipher my handwriting in the past - but now I think it's really 'normal'!
I think it's a Zen thing - I just wanted my handwriting to improve, and it did.
Either that or I'm kidding myself and people struggle to make sense of my scrawl and just act like they can read it.
Anyway, I still have this thing with capital letters... suddenly I feel ANGRY and TENSE... It even happens when I'm typing! I felt angry and tense as I typed those words! Scary.
So when I'm using a pen or pencil my hand gets TENSE and I can't move the thing about with any grace.
I wanted to provide a "sample implementation" link as a supplement to your post, but I can only find the first implementation of the more primitive predecessor, rfc1149.
I think the PCMCIA slot in my laptop is 16 bit or something
If you had to whittle down the runner on the PC card in order to slide it comfortably in the slot, then yes, you are trying to put a 32-bit PC card into a 16-bit PCMCIA slot!
I don't know. I'm fairly stupid, and I can't find the time to do everything I want to do. If I was more clever, then perhaps I'd develop better strategies for freeing up my time to fit more in - and end up with Spencer Wilson's problem.
But on second thoughts, scratch that. I'm not that stupid, and Spencer Wilson sounds like he's just a self-agrandising twat with no perspective on life. If he's that bloody clever, why does he have to Ask Slashdot?
Hasn't he heard of Google?
Or perhaps he has a highly intelligent ulterior motive that is escaping us...
if you drink enough coffee to get by on 6.5 hours of sleep rather than 8 then, after 35 years of continuous use you will have extended your life by a full two years ((35*365*1.5)/24/365 = 798)
It's better than that. We spend on average one third of our lives asleep. Therefore the two years of waking life you get by drinking coffee, is worth three years of normal life.
Hold on, it get's even better.
We spend another third of our normal lives at work. Of the remaining eight hours a day, I would estimate we waste four of them. Cleaning up. Washing clothes. Shopping for food. Eating food. Preparing food. Preparing drinks. Watching TV. Cleaning ourselves.
So each hour of coffee time is worth two of mundane time, thus doubling our original life extension figure.
Coffee extends your life by six years.
Correcting my maths (sydb is Scottish, not American) is left as an exercise to the reader.
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All hail Lord Stallman; praise to St Ignucius.
Those "linux libraries" are not "linux" libraries, they are GNU libraries.
That's why they run on things that aren't linux.
One of the nice things about Debian is that if I apt-get remove something, before removing it, apt-get will tell me if it's going to have to remove other things that depend on it, and give me the chance to cancel.
Does redcarpet not do this?
I hazard a guess that was glibc, not glib. glibc is fundamental to your system - it is the GNU C library. glib is a bunch of nice things that GTK uses.
I'd give you links but gnu.org is slow just now.
It's OK, I came to my senses.
Thanks for your touching concern!
Ah, my mistake!
This is first post, but also 1000th post? How so?
And I just bought a subscription.
Please mod me down!
Cognitive function comes heavily into play, and it's at this point when the truly talented rise above the masses of people who simply title themselves "computer technicians."
You need to explain what you have against the title "computer technician". I am one, and I consider myself both talented and cognitively functional.
I consider computer technicians to be important and valuable. The shitty technicians are not, but that goes for any profession, including ones that agrandise themselves with more lofty monickers - which I consider to be so much hot air.
Post 999.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! While I agree that physical co-ordination is something some people are good at, and some people are bad at, I cannot go along with your crazed idea that education is something that happens to someone given enough time.
Schools, colleges, training courses etc. don't educate anyone. They provide an opportunity for people to learn. Some people will learn just enough to get by. Others will learn everything presented to them and more off their own bat. Yet others (me) will say "fuck this" and learn everything they need to know themselves whilst also earning some money. And some won't be able to keep up and will drop out and get a McJob.
Education is no guarantee of learning, but learning is a guarantee of education.
Welcome, but please note in future that the term 'first post' is reserved for the first post to a story, not an individual user's first post.
As for me, this is my 997th post. Three more posts and I kill myself.
Hahahahaha!
Post 996. Four to go! Then I kill myself.
That is not what you said at all. You said distribute together, not link. These acts are worlds apart.
I'm surprised that a 5-digit UID should exhibit 2-digit IQ.
You've been modded a troll and it's probably right. But it's Friday, and I'm fed up with illiterate morons and I agree with you.
I come across this all the time. People send emails with stuff like:
"Can someone, please look at, this."
What does it mean? By the way, this is a manager. She gets paid more than me and yet she can't string simple written English together.
Sometimes I wonder what goes on in peoples' minds, then I realise I'd rather not know.
As in where you have to declare all your variables at the very beginning and can't declare them anywhere else.
Shurely you mean Pascal?
having to compile every damn thing before I could use it, turned me off. THe linux community should learn to offer binary executables and source because I simply just don't like the hassle of the extra step.
What are you blethering about? Provision of binary executables is the purpose of GNU/Linux distributions.
I have not run Windows at home for about five years, and I don't miss it in the slightest. I have a server for NFS, web, mail and other bits and bobs. I have an IBM Thinkpad which is my main work horse. I have an ancient Toshiba Libretto hooked up to my amplifier for playing music.
All of these run Debian. I can't remember the last thing I had to compile by hand; Debian has so many packages prebuilt that I rarely have to build something myself. Either it's already there, or something else is there that does the same job.
If I do need to compile somthing, Debian ensures I don't end up in dependency hell because almost all Free libraries are packaged. I grant you - RedHat used to be a pain. Trying to compile an up-to-date Gnome 1.0 for RedHat 5.1 was the last straw that switched me over to a distro built by it's users. But I'm pretty sure RedHat is much better these days anyway.
My day job desktop is Windows NT 4.0 SP6 and I get through the day but it can hardly be called convenient. It's so lowest-common-dominator that I end up installing all sorts of utilities that are missed out in the shipped OS. I fear Windows XP because I don't want to work in a cartoon.
And finally, I bathe in the warmth of the freedom of GNU/Linux. I don't have to invoke it much, but I know that if I do have to, I can get the source and fix it. Thanks Linus, RMS, et al.
Unfortunately, Car or Car's server is sustaining the assault exceptionally well, whereas the SCCA site is struggling to serve up their page to me... I've been waiting three minutes so far....
10 out of 10 evil points to the perpetrators for a well-executed sin.
I can't print block capitals for more than a sentence or so without getting a quite intense pain in my wrist.
I'm not alone! You know exactly how I feel!
My writing has, historically, been abysmal. I dropped out of a remedial handwriting class at high school! They put this rubber prism-shaped thing on a pencil... very uncomfortable!
However, over the years I have more and more relaxed while writing and I write joined-up (as we call 'cursive' in the UK) all the time - and other people can read it! Sometimes I couldn't decipher my handwriting in the past - but now I think it's really 'normal'!
I think it's a Zen thing - I just wanted my handwriting to improve, and it did.
Either that or I'm kidding myself and people struggle to make sense of my scrawl and just act like they can read it.
Anyway, I still have this thing with capital letters... suddenly I feel ANGRY and TENSE... It even happens when I'm typing! I felt angry and tense as I typed those words! Scary.
So when I'm using a pen or pencil my hand gets TENSE and I can't move the thing about with any grace.
r.e.l.a.x......r.e.l.a.x......
cool, I'm a bit sensitive :-)
By the way your web page at Warwick is no longer active.
The 'alpha' in 'smac-install-alpha.run' means Alpha as in DEC Alpha, like 'ppc' in 'smac-install-ppc.run' means PPC as in PowerPC.
I'd also wager that's a game binary with no data. It's only 24Mb after all.
I wanted to provide a "sample implementation" link as a supplement to your post, but I can only find the first implementation of the more primitive predecessor, rfc1149.
I think the PCMCIA slot in my laptop is 16 bit or something
If you had to whittle down the runner on the PC card in order to slide it comfortably in the slot, then yes, you are trying to put a 32-bit PC card into a 16-bit PCMCIA slot!
I can't tell whether your ridiculing me, or just missed my (very simple) point... please let me know!
Just think of the use of "i" in for loops, no one in the right set of mind would use something like "loopCounter"
Quite, but if you're choosing decent variable names, you would never think of chooseing loopCounter!
What are you counting? That's what the variable name should be.
Iterating over rows in a matrix (or whatever)? then the variable name should be 'row'! Not rowCount or RowNumber or count or r, simply 'row'.
Then row++ makes sense - next row.
But what if you don't have an inner conflict?
Then again, I'm sure everyone does. However, I don't see any evidence for one.
But something tells me that can't be right.
It's all bullshit. There is no inner conflict. Wait....
I don't know. I'm fairly stupid, and I can't find the time to do everything I want to do. If I was more clever, then perhaps I'd develop better strategies for freeing up my time to fit more in - and end up with Spencer Wilson's problem.
But on second thoughts, scratch that. I'm not that stupid, and Spencer Wilson sounds like he's just a self-agrandising twat with no perspective on life. If he's that bloody clever, why does he have to Ask Slashdot?
Hasn't he heard of Google?
Or perhaps he has a highly intelligent ulterior motive that is escaping us...
if you drink enough coffee to get by on 6.5 hours of sleep rather than 8 then, after 35 years of continuous use you will have extended your life by a full two years ((35*365*1.5)/24/365 = 798)
It's better than that. We spend on average one third of our lives asleep. Therefore the two years of waking life you get by drinking coffee, is worth three years of normal life.
Hold on, it get's even better.
We spend another third of our normal lives at work. Of the remaining eight hours a day, I would estimate we waste four of them. Cleaning up. Washing clothes. Shopping for food. Eating food. Preparing food. Preparing drinks. Watching TV. Cleaning ourselves.
So each hour of coffee time is worth two of mundane time, thus doubling our original life extension figure.
Coffee extends your life by six years.
Correcting my maths (sydb is Scottish, not American) is left as an exercise to the reader.