So you don't consider it "poverty" unless people are starving? I assume that MSP stands for Minneapolis/St. Paul, but I have not been to that city. However, I can tell you that I see homeless people every day here in Chicago and they generally don't seem very happy. Bought some homeless guy a coffee last weekend and noticed he had about 4 teeth in his mouth. (By the way, I've seen some stats that put the number of people in my neighborhood living at or below the poverty level as high as 40%)
Now that you mention it, maybe it wasn't RH 7.0 that I had so much trouble with (sorry, it's been years). SuSE 8.0 shipped with GCC 2.95, and I had lots of trouble compiling packages with it. Pretty nice distro otherwise.
Nobody is forced to run a web site. I used to run a small site, and happily paid out of pocket for that service. Problem is, some people have come to regard the web as a cash cow, as if they should earn money just for people visiting their site. Suck it up, if a company's business model relies on annoying people it probably won't be effective in the long run.
Ah yes, you've found me out. I like to slap "Type-R" stickers on my computer case, and run Gentoo for that extra 1% speed boost. But if you can look past your Opera zealotry, you'll see that I didn't actually say anything bad about the browser. If it works for you then great, keep using it.
I don't regard my brower as a "toy to play with." The Web Developer Toolbar is a critical tool for my work. I would go insane without the FlashBlock extension. BugMeNot is a huge convenience.
Sure, it takes a little effort to seek out and install these things, but there are advantages to this system. (such as upgrading extensions without having to upgrade the entire browser)
I like Opera and all, but the F12 menu really isn't comparable to the infinitely flexible Gecko plugin system. And while it's nice to have those F12 options, I would like to see a little finer control, like Firefox's advanced Javascript and Cookie settings. (Is there "Reject Cookies from 3rd party" in Opera?)
It happens. I once accidentaly typed an extra space when deleting core files on a production system:
rm -r * core
Goodbye to a full day of work.. Of course, now that I am more experienced with *nix systems, I see that there were several issues with the system configuration:
The account we used for testing was equivalant to root (sound familiar?)
The system should have had core dumps disabled, no reason for that on a production system
The data files should have been placed in a separate directory, like/var, instead of just using the current directory.
I don't know what kind of proxy you're sitting behind, but I assure you that maximonline.com stopped working for me shortly after this story went live. Still doesn't work, as a matter of fact. But maybe that's Comcast fucking up again.
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So you don't consider it "poverty" unless people are starving? I assume that MSP stands for Minneapolis/St. Paul, but I have not been to that city. However, I can tell you that I see homeless people every day here in Chicago and they generally don't seem very happy. Bought some homeless guy a coffee last weekend and noticed he had about 4 teeth in his mouth. (By the way, I've seen some stats that put the number of people in my neighborhood living at or below the poverty level as high as 40%)
I see, thanks. Strange that Slashdot didn't report on it. Or maybe they did and I just missed it..
I for one welcome our new Corporate Overloads.. (does that mean we get Corporate Inheritance as well?)
Hey, when did SCOX get re-listed?
poverty in the western world is virtually non-existant.
Do you live in a small town or something? I welcome you to visit practically any major US city and see the multitude of homeless for yourself.
All of those totalitarian regimes didn't allow ANY dissent, didn't allow any other parties..
Have you seen the state of the Democratic party in Texas lately?
Take a fucking chill pill. Are you MS people so angry lately because your platform is getting squeezed between Mac and Linux?
And end up spending assloads on proprietary software, support costs, antivirus, etc?
Nah, bring on the "B" Ark. We'll get rid of all the unnecessary people and enjoy a utopian society!
(Note: do not get rid of phone sanitizers)
Now that you mention it, maybe it wasn't RH 7.0 that I had so much trouble with (sorry, it's been years). SuSE 8.0 shipped with GCC 2.95, and I had lots of trouble compiling packages with it. Pretty nice distro otherwise.
Did someone say RedHat 7.0? Horrors..
Well, Windows does tend to enjoy homogeneous environments. ^_^
Honey, I think gay people have a little more taste than that horrid blue-and-green default XP theme..
Neo: So what are you saying -- that I can reboot these servers remotely?
Morpheus: I'm saying when the time comes, you won't have to.
Neo: Woah.
Yeah, but 12 would be.. one more!
Mars.. needs.. women..
Ever heard of a little thing called "TV"?
Yeah. I'll see your "TV" and raise you one "Tivo."
Nobody is forced to run a web site. I used to run a small site, and happily paid out of pocket for that service. Problem is, some people have come to regard the web as a cash cow, as if they should earn money just for people visiting their site. Suck it up, if a company's business model relies on annoying people it probably won't be effective in the long run.
Ah yes, you've found me out. I like to slap "Type-R" stickers on my computer case, and run Gentoo for that extra 1% speed boost. But if you can look past your Opera zealotry, you'll see that I didn't actually say anything bad about the browser. If it works for you then great, keep using it.
I don't regard my brower as a "toy to play with." The Web Developer Toolbar is a critical tool for my work. I would go insane without the FlashBlock extension. BugMeNot is a huge convenience.
Sure, it takes a little effort to seek out and install these things, but there are advantages to this system. (such as upgrading extensions without having to upgrade the entire browser)
I like Opera and all, but the F12 menu really isn't comparable to the infinitely flexible Gecko plugin system. And while it's nice to have those F12 options, I would like to see a little finer control, like Firefox's advanced Javascript and Cookie settings. (Is there "Reject Cookies from 3rd party" in Opera?)
It happens. I once accidentaly typed an extra space when deleting core files on a production system:
Goodbye to a full day of work.. Of course, now that I am more experienced with *nix systems, I see that there were several issues with the system configuration:Eh, screw the whole thing.
(the moon shall rise again!)
I don't know what kind of proxy you're sitting behind, but I assure you that maximonline.com stopped working for me shortly after this story went live. Still doesn't work, as a matter of fact. But maybe that's Comcast fucking up again.
I think I hurt my glottis
Poor Glottis.. all he ever wanted to do was drive. Poor, poor demon.
it might be just $42
The odds of that happening are enough to drive the Heart of Gold from one end of the galaxy to the other in a new record time..