Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally someone who understands that our over bloated feeling of self importance as a race, is not only unjustfied, but dangerous as well.
I haven't cleaned my fridge in months. under the old pizza boxes and half empty coke bottles, I am sure there is a new strain of plague, green slime is a given.
Actually, this could be GOOD for Linux. If the strongest variants of the OS buy the weakest, then there's hope we might finally see
a unified distobution.
Perhaps I am being ignorant. I fail to see the issue in a numerous amount of distro's. Choice is good, yes having three or four main distro's would be nice and getting all the packaging down to one format in the RedHat, Slackware and Debian Package Managing ideas.
However as long as people are free to create thier own distro's there will always be a good variety. Some will fail, some will succeed. This is the nature of evolution and despite the confusion that evolution may cause, its still good. At least IMO.
I am confused, sounds to well spoken to be a troll and the moderators think so as well. Hmmmm.
Well granted, just because we "just" manipulate the pre-existing code to fit our needs and maybe kick out a few perl scripts to get some things done and perl is about as much of a language as HTML. We are not winidiots either. Hackers IMHO are not always code hackers, they can sometimes be the people that implement the software. Perhaps if we did have that big of head about us, we would call ourselves "System Intergration Engineers", however we do not, well not all of us.
We make things work, we "hack" the hardware, software, whatever we have to do to make it work. That in is IMO is hacking. Granted sometimes Sys Admins waste a lot of time on getting uncompleted code to work and it fails, however the wiser of us, do that in our off time and then if it works bring it up for the management after we know we can make it work. Perhaps you should just give your sys admin a big hug and you will feel better.:) Just my little rant.
I run a 333 celeron with 64 mgs and I find KDE2 to be nicy, shiny and well designed, but really slow. Its to candy, its slows the whole process. Granted I have not upgraded in a while, so perhaps its been tightned up, just an FYI.
Your logic is there, but I disagree with the reasoning. Well one point in particular. The fact that people would not have to remember all the "useless facts" There is nothing useless about useless facts. Retaining information is just another way of exercising a muscle. The brain needs as much exercising as possible, skills and understanding can not be enhanced without personally skewed understanding of the facts, which IMHO can not be done through cold hard text book ideas.
one more thing that I really want to add to this, is that in the movie, not one of the unix geeks had facial hair. now c'mon every knows that the amount of facial hair you have is indicitave to your unix knowledge. I know Linus has none, but he is an exception.:)
The only thing that I can think of to say about a new Slackware dsitro is the fact this its a three day weekend. I just logged into/. and man I could not be happier. When the 2.4 Kernel released between home and work I was in front of the machine for 20 hours straight. Better make some coffee and settle in for a long weekend.
just to note, first Applixware really does not count, its out of linux. There are no more upgrades coming, and the last version did have a word count.:)
I am sure that M$ has some great privacy policies in thier employee hand book. Just copy them verbatim. I am sure that no one will mind and then you have a great open minded gestapo hand book.
Keep them in line with fear!
We reserve the right to check your possesions, mail, and court records, for any damn reason we choose. Including but not limited to, our own damn amusment for christmas parties.
seems a lot of the posts I am reading are thus, granted other countrys you can say what ever you like and the goverment treats you like a person and not cattle, but the taxes are higher
Really? Is that what it boils down to? Freedom of captilism? That is alright and if your quest for life is in the almight dollar, I am not claiming to be high and mighty and willing to spend the rest of my life in poverty to prove my point, however what is freedom of person and politics as opposed to a fatter pay check. Even as matieralistic as any other Amerikan I would have to say that freedom is a small price to pay for a little less cash. I live alright here, no real issues, but if I can live a little more free, less worries on a tighter budget that seems like a pretty small sacrifice.... Have we really gotten this commited to money?
My partner and I were thinking of leaving the country. I am happy with Systems Admin and she is a programmer.
We are looking for somewhere that is temperate to live with a decent technological advancements. Any ideas? I am primarly scottish, she is Irish, however I don't think that either of these countrys could support our careers.
when the shit smells the same on the both piles, what does it matter who you vote for? The president is nothing more (IMHO) than a shining billboard smile that we can "trust" to govern our pathetic lives. The president does not run the free world, money does, not so free....
at risk of being riduculed and being marked as flamebait,
If voting changed anything they would make it illegal.
Sorry but that is really the way I feel. I am honestly scared.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally someone who understands that our over bloated feeling of self importance as a race, is not only unjustfied, but dangerous as well.
I haven't cleaned my fridge in months. under the old pizza boxes and half empty coke bottles, I am sure there is a new strain of plague, green slime is a given.
"would you like to hear the horrifing truth; or see me hit a few sluggers?"
me! I hug my slackware box every day! The other things that we do in private are our own private bussiness. The ever versatile floppy drive.
Wow sex with a PERL bot! the mind reels...I would say I am almost excited about that.
I thought I was in love, and it turned out to be just a bad case of heart burn.
For god sakes when they insult all of the people on here that call themselves geeks, don't mod them up. :)
Perhaps I am being ignorant. I fail to see the issue in a numerous amount of distro's. Choice is good, yes having three or four main distro's would be nice and getting all the packaging down to one format in the RedHat, Slackware and Debian Package Managing ideas.
However as long as people are free to create thier own distro's there will always be a good variety. Some will fail, some will succeed. This is the nature of evolution and despite the confusion that evolution may cause, its still good. At least IMO.
Well granted, just because we "just" manipulate the pre-existing code to fit our needs and maybe kick out a few perl scripts to get some things done and perl is about as much of a language as HTML. We are not winidiots either. Hackers IMHO are not always code hackers, they can sometimes be the people that implement the software. Perhaps if we did have that big of head about us, we would call ourselves "System Intergration Engineers", however we do not, well not all of us.
We make things work, we "hack" the hardware, software, whatever we have to do to make it work. That in is IMO is hacking. Granted sometimes Sys Admins waste a lot of time on getting uncompleted code to work and it fails, however the wiser of us, do that in our off time and then if it works bring it up for the management after we know we can make it work. Perhaps you should just give your sys admin a big hug and you will feel better. :) Just my little rant.
sell the patent on thier one click process. That would generate a little cash and maybe get back some lost customsers as well.
Thats really not a nice way to talk about MicroSoft. They are just trying to get by...
I run a 333 celeron with 64 mgs and I find KDE2 to be nicy, shiny and well designed, but really slow. Its to candy, its slows the whole process. Granted I have not upgraded in a while, so perhaps its been tightned up, just an FYI.
JUN0 ownz joo! (sorry I had too)
Your logic is there, but I disagree with the reasoning. Well one point in particular. The fact that people would not have to remember all the "useless facts" There is nothing useless about useless facts. Retaining information is just another way of exercising a muscle. The brain needs as much exercising as possible, skills and understanding can not be enhanced without personally skewed understanding of the facts, which IMHO can not be done through cold hard text book ideas.
one more thing that I really want to add to this, is that in the movie, not one of the unix geeks had facial hair. now c'mon every knows that the amount of facial hair you have is indicitave to your unix knowledge. I know Linus has none, but he is an exception. :)
I still wake up screaming at night, thinking that I am in the theater watching Anti-Trust. That was just a down right dreadful movie.
The only thing that I can think of to say about a new Slackware dsitro is the fact this its a three day weekend. I just logged into /. and man I could not be happier. When the 2.4 Kernel released between home and work I was in front of the machine for 20 hours straight. Better make some coffee and settle in for a long weekend.
But the first thing that popped into my head after reading this was myst :)
did anyone report the birds throwing bones at the monolith?
just to note, first Applixware really does not count, its out of linux. There are no more upgrades coming, and the last version did have a word count. :)
Keep them in line with fear!
We reserve the right to check your possesions, mail, and court records, for any damn reason we choose. Including but not limited to, our own damn amusment for christmas parties.
Really? Is that what it boils down to? Freedom of captilism? That is alright and if your quest for life is in the almight dollar, I am not claiming to be high and mighty and willing to spend the rest of my life in poverty to prove my point, however what is freedom of person and politics as opposed to a fatter pay check. Even as matieralistic as any other Amerikan I would have to say that freedom is a small price to pay for a little less cash. I live alright here, no real issues, but if I can live a little more free, less worries on a tighter budget that seems like a pretty small sacrifice.... Have we really gotten this commited to money?
We are looking for somewhere that is temperate to live with a decent technological advancements. Any ideas? I am primarly scottish, she is Irish, however I don't think that either of these countrys could support our careers.
at risk of being riduculed and being marked as flamebait,
If voting changed anything they would make it illegal.
Sorry but that is really the way I feel. I am honestly scared.
I think that an honorable mention should go to the RTS Gangsters. If nothing else just for concept.