Unfortunately, I don't think it would matter WHO this posting was about --Jason Haas, Linus, Bill Gates-- you are always going to get jerks on here spouting off "who cares" and telling dead body jokes. They may not really even agree with what they're posting; they're just doing it to piss off the rest of us.
. . . one of the main tenets of "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" was that part of the problem with society (American, that is) today is that we don't seem to have a problem with graphic violence being portrayed in the media, but we get our collective panties in a wad over WORDS. Mere WORDS!!
I agree. The cat herding commercial kicked all kinds of ass. My roommate and I were rolling in the floor, laughing at that one. Much better than the E-trade chimp commercial (which also kicked ass, by the way).
I know the post above me already said it, but let's not forget Sluggy Freelance! It is, in my opinion, the best damn comic to come along in _any_ medium, in a loooong time. Three cheers to Mr. Abrams!
Sorry. 's where I work, though not with anything as groovy as biochips. : (
Anyway, there's a blurb about this on the Argonne home page, here. Probably not a lot more informative than the above link, but it's got a hokey graphic (oooh! pictures!).
Today AMD cut the price of the 700 MHz Athlon, which still seems to be doing better than the 733 MHz Cu-mine on some of the hardware site tests, down to $666.
I tried using Mutt with GnuPG but it does not work!
A common problem is that you use an older version of Mutt with a new version of gnupg. Recent version of gnupg (0.9.8 and up) don't have the gpgm helper program any more which Mutt uses to access the keyring. Not only that, the gnupg installation routine will also remove gpgm from previous versions. The quick fix is to symlink gpg to gpgm.
Point(s) well taken.* Though I reserve the right to hypocritically hold writing professionals (granted, it's debatable whether that applies to ZDNet) to higher standards than I hold myself or acquaintances.
If I were to submit written words that would potentially be read by millions, I'd definitely want everything to be proper.
Hell, I usually hit the "Preview" button here at least three times before submitting.
*Yes, yes. This is another example of me being lazy with the language, and I should have written, "Your points are well taken," or somesuch piffle.
No, I'm not talking about the 2.4 or Alan Cox news. That's all great. Great for Linux, great for Alan. Hopefully great for the UK Linux scene.
Ahem . . .
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Did anyone else play "Count the Typos" in that article? WTF is up with that? Did ZDNet UK give the editors a holiday or something? Here's one particularly offensive bit of text:
Cox was swamped by adoring follows of the Linux hoping perhaps that a little of his coding expertise might rub of on them.
That barely makes sense! It reads like a Babelfish translation! And there were plenty more where that came from.
It's not just this article, either. More and more, the quality of grammar/spelling/editing on web-based news sites are going to crap. A lot of these places also do print versions, which I never really see. Do the typos make it in there, too?
This is offtopic, to be sure, but I just had to vent my spleen. Are my perceptions skewed, or is this journalistic atrocity becoming more common?
In the article, they mention that MacMillan had a distribution deal with RedHat for version 5.x. Come to think of it, my first Linux install was MacMillan Linux (RedHat 5.2). What you saw on beyond.com is just unmoved merchandise, left over from when MacMillan still did distro for RH.
Blame beyond.com for trying to unload "obsolete" merchandise, not MacMillan.
to get the country to go metric. Sure, it will probably never happen, but what if:
We get some pro-metric headlines, like "English System of Measurement Cause for $125 Million Wasted Taxpayer Dollars!!" That'll get the attention of Joe Sixpack, who don't want no damn Measurement System wasting HIS hard-earned money.
Then we start explaining how kilometers are better than miles, because 100 of the one is MUCH easier to travel than 100 of the other. Same for the pounds/kilograms argument. You weigh HOW much??
As for inches/centimeters . . . well, there's some obvious psychological tricks to be used there. On guys, anyway.
I'm tellin' ya, this is a primo opportunity to get the metric foot (oooh! How's that for a phrase?) in the door. Use the ignorance of the general populace against it! It could happen . . .
Too bad the "Greatest Nation on Earth" is full of stubborn, backwards-thinking, penny pinchers. *sigh*
Now the obligatory humor, courtesy of Grampa Simpson: "The metric system is the tool of the devil!! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!!!!"
One of my friends in college had the original Illuminati game. Having played both, I'd say they both kicked butt. Though I guess the original was less annoying to keep track of than the collectibe/tradeable/customizable/profitable card version.
Ahhhh, the Illuminati card game. I remember it well. I remember once in a friend's basement I almost pulled off the Great Double Cross. Rolled a 2 on 2D6, the whole nine yards. Then my damn brother pulled some "screw you, buddy" card out of his butt, to which I had no counter. So close, yet so far away . . .
Wow. I think I'm going to buy this. I still have my old cards. Huzzah for SJG! =D
And it's about time! What. . . only four years since Assassins came out?:P Is that some sort of weird gaming record?
Bah! Humans are a sum total of their genetic makeup and their environment. To REALLY re-make someone, you'd have to replicate all the outside factors that acted on them after they were born.
Wasn't there something on here recently about ext3? Saying that the author (forget his name, sorry) had gotten to where it didn't destroy HIS hard drive, but made no promises about any one else's...
What % alcohol is Euro-Guinness, anyway?? For that matter, what's Amer-Guinness? I made a Guinness-style stout (minus the soured stuff they add to every batch, natch), but added molasses to it, and it's alcohol content was...well okay, I forget what it was. But it was GOOOO-oood stuff! =)
I agree, by the by, that American beer has major problems. It is getting better though! We're finally recovering from prohibition.:P It's about time!!
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Actually, KDE 2 does that. There are only buttons on the taskbar for your current virtual desktop. =)
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Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet Web Site
Jason Schwarz Ethernet Tutorial
Lantronix Networking Tutorials
You might also try typing "ethernet tutorial" or somesuch in your favorite web search engine. Hope this helps!
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THAT would explain the fishy smell coming from my hard drive, eh? ;-)
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Unfortunately, I don't think it would matter WHO this posting was about --Jason Haas, Linus, Bill Gates-- you are always going to get jerks on here spouting off "who cares" and telling dead body jokes. They may not really even agree with what they're posting; they're just doing it to piss off the rest of us.
Which means they're still jerks, of course.
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. . . one of the main tenets of "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" was that part of the problem with society (American, that is) today is that we don't seem to have a problem with graphic violence being portrayed in the media, but we get our collective panties in a wad over WORDS. Mere WORDS!!
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I agree. The cat herding commercial kicked all kinds of ass. My roommate and I were rolling in the floor, laughing at that one. Much better than the E-trade chimp commercial (which also kicked ass, by the way).
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I know the post above me already said it, but let's not forget Sluggy Freelance! It is, in my opinion, the best damn comic to come along in _any_ medium, in a loooong time. Three cheers to Mr. Abrams!
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Sorry. 's where I work, though not with anything as groovy as biochips. : (
Anyway, there's a blurb about this on the Argonne home page, here. Probably not a lot more informative than the above link, but it's got a hokey graphic (oooh! pictures!).
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Today AMD cut the price of the 700 MHz Athlon, which still seems to be doing better than the 733 MHz Cu-mine on some of the hardware site tests, down to $666.
Zoiks!
Let's talk bang for buck, shall we?
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I tried using Mutt with GnuPG but it does not work!
A common problem is that you use an older version of Mutt with a new version of gnupg. Recent version of gnupg (0.9.8 and up) don't have the gpgm helper program any more which Mutt uses to access the keyring. Not only that, the gnupg installation routine will also remove gpgm from previous versions. The quick fix is to symlink gpg to gpgm.
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Yup. You sure have! One too many n's.
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Point(s) well taken.* Though I reserve the right to hypocritically hold writing professionals (granted, it's debatable whether that applies to ZDNet) to higher standards than I hold myself or acquaintances.
If I were to submit written words that would potentially be read by millions, I'd definitely want everything to be proper.
Hell, I usually hit the "Preview" button here at least three times before submitting.
*Yes, yes. This is another example of me being lazy with the language, and I should have written, "Your points are well taken," or somesuch piffle.
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No, I'm not talking about the 2.4 or Alan Cox news. That's all great. Great for Linux, great for Alan. Hopefully great for the UK Linux scene.
Ahem . . .
[rant]
Did anyone else play "Count the Typos" in that article? WTF is up with that? Did ZDNet UK give the editors a holiday or something? Here's one particularly offensive bit of text:
Cox was swamped by adoring follows of the Linux hoping perhaps that a little of his coding expertise might rub of on them.
That barely makes sense! It reads like a Babelfish translation! And there were plenty more where that came from.
It's not just this article, either. More and more, the quality of grammar/spelling/editing on web-based news sites are going to crap. A lot of these places also do print versions, which I never really see. Do the typos make it in there, too?
This is offtopic, to be sure, but I just had to vent my spleen. Are my perceptions skewed, or is this journalistic atrocity becoming more common?
*muttermuttermutter....*
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In the article, they mention that MacMillan had a distribution deal with RedHat for version 5.x. Come to think of it, my first Linux install was MacMillan Linux (RedHat 5.2). What you saw on beyond.com is just unmoved merchandise, left over from when MacMillan still did distro for RH.
Blame beyond.com for trying to unload "obsolete" merchandise, not MacMillan.
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Only to capture the zeitgeist of this chaotic, but nonetheless important, gathering did I press on.
:P
I'm morally opposed to unnecessary uses of the word "zeitgeist." I stopped reading after that sentence.
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to get the country to go metric. Sure, it will probably never happen, but what if:
We get some pro-metric headlines, like "English System of Measurement Cause for $125 Million Wasted Taxpayer Dollars!!" That'll get the attention of Joe Sixpack, who don't want no damn Measurement System wasting HIS hard-earned money.
Then we start explaining how kilometers are better than miles, because 100 of the one is MUCH easier to travel than 100 of the other. Same for the pounds/kilograms argument. You weigh HOW much??
As for inches/centimeters . . . well, there's some obvious psychological tricks to be used there. On guys, anyway.
I'm tellin' ya, this is a primo opportunity to get the metric foot (oooh! How's that for a phrase?) in the door. Use the ignorance of the general populace against it! It could happen . . .
Too bad the "Greatest Nation on Earth" is full of stubborn, backwards-thinking, penny pinchers. *sigh*
Now the obligatory humor, courtesy of Grampa Simpson: "The metric system is the tool of the devil!! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!!!!"
--
One of my friends in college had the original Illuminati game. Having played both, I'd say they both kicked butt. Though I guess the original was less annoying to keep track of than the collectibe/tradeable/customizable/profitable card version.
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Ahhhh, the Illuminati card game. I remember it well. I remember once in a friend's basement I almost pulled off the Great Double Cross. Rolled a 2 on 2D6, the whole nine yards. Then my damn brother pulled some "screw you, buddy" card out of his butt, to which I had no counter. So close, yet so far away . . .
:P Is that some sort of weird gaming record?
Wow. I think I'm going to buy this. I still have my old cards. Huzzah for SJG! =D
And it's about time! What. . . only four years since Assassins came out?
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Bah! Humans are a sum total of their genetic makeup and their environment. To REALLY re-make someone, you'd have to replicate all the outside factors that acted on them after they were born.
:P
Good luck.
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Is there a cure for that? Can't we force-feed them some cod liver oil or something and get that worked through their system?
Perhaps a nice ipecac or saltwater enema . . .
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Wasn't there something on here recently about ext3? Saying that the author (forget his name, sorry) had gotten to where it didn't destroy HIS hard drive, but made no promises about any one else's...
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Congrats, Brian!
Does this mean Mesa is going to get more better faster? =)
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I am not a student, and I don't even spend $60 a week on groceries. You must not be TOO broke. Criminy!
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What % alcohol is Euro-Guinness, anyway?? For that matter, what's Amer-Guinness? I made a Guinness-style stout (minus the soured stuff they add to every batch, natch), but added molasses to it, and it's alcohol content was...well okay, I forget what it was. But it was GOOOO-oood stuff! =)
:P It's about time!!
I agree, by the by, that American beer has major problems. It is getting better though! We're finally recovering from prohibition.
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??? Pricewatch has the P-III 550 at $702 (limit one per customer) and the 500 at $442. As someone already mentioned, there isn't a P-III 600 yet.
Mmmmmmm....AMD.
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