"People, I am the only one who realise that binary packages are almost useless? Except a few basic packages (as in USE independent, e.g. gcc), the result depends greatly by the USE variable. Let's take for example the mod_php package. How useful a binary mod_php will be?"
Oh my god, I've been wasting my time all these years! What was I thinking? All those websites running off binary mod_php packages were useless!
Let me ask you one thing - when you voted did you think of the starving?
Actually, yes I did, the party I voted for had a manifesto commitment to fight world poverty. Of course, I don't think here is necessarily the best place to argue over how much they have achieved on this.
When you bought your computer did you looked a the performance price ration or to the power used/performance/your needs/price?
I have a Celeron 850, so I'll let you decide.
Do you care about the water you waste? Or is the price that makes you think about it?
Actually, yes I do care about the water I waste. The money isn't really an issue, here in the UK technology jobs still pay well enough that I don't need to worry about the few extra pence wasted water might cost. Nevertheless, I take showers rather than baths, try to never fill the kettle more than I need, etc etc.
Do your job as best as you can and you'll save the earth.
I'm really not sure if I'm being trolled here or if you actually believe this. Of course, taken literally you're right - no matter how much we screw it up, we're very unlikely to destroy the earth. But we could make it uninhabitable for life as we know it.
Am I the only one who thinks that this $250 000 could have been put to better use?
Don't get me wrong, I'm typing this post in Firefox right now, it's undoubtedly a great browser, but wouldn't $250 000 be better spent fighting third world poverty or providing clean drinking water?
Of course, when one compares it to the vast sums of money spent on unnecessary gas-guzzling 'SUVs' it doesn't seem so bad after all..
Imagine my happy surprise when I walked in the room and saw 4 Xboxes connected via System Link and projected onto big screens. We played for 2 or 3 hours every night, and people who weren't even videogame fans got into the action.
I really don't think people would have/could have done this with the other consoles.
Actually, this could have been done with a Gamecube and network adapters. Mario Kart DD multiplayer is a hell of a lot of fun.
I have all three consoles. For me what makes the XBox different is the type of titles you get on it - it naturally attracts a lot of PC developers. I doubt we'd see anything too much like Fable on the other two consoles.
On the N64 some (most) games used battery backed ram, however there was a port on the bottom of the N64 controller into which a memory card could be inserted. There weren't a huge amount of games that used it, Castlevania 64 is the only one that comes to mind now although I'm sure there was more than just that.
Try bitlbee - an IRC to IM gateway. I've been using it for sometime and it's superb, I can use my favourite IRC client (irssi) to chat to everyone via an ssh session to my box at home, whatever server room I happen to be holed up in at the time.
Many large companies like to have commerical support for the tools they use. Large companies benefit greatly from using sudo. Large companies buy commerical sudo support. sudo author gets money. Everybody's happy.
Coming from the UK I had no preconcieved ideas about Alabama (other than NASCAR is popular there), but now I know that everyone from Alabama is humourless!
Having worked up until a couple of weeks ago for a company that provides mail services for 8000+ domains I can say with some certainty that whilst there is less wildcard spam than targetted spam, there is still a hell of a lot of wildcard spam. info@ seems to be a favourite for wildcard spammers, so for the moment at least that's definitely an address to avoid.
Just one more reason you should be using authentication using keys rather than passwords (although obviously it's a good idea to set a password on your key..:)).
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Admittedly, all the games I play are on PS2/XBOX/Gamecube/Dreamcast.
That's hardly fair.. there aren't many people in Britain who know who Michael Howard is.
Oh my god, I've been wasting my time all these years! What was I thinking? All those websites running off binary mod_php packages were useless!
Actually, yes I did, the party I voted for had a manifesto commitment to fight world poverty. Of course, I don't think here is necessarily the best place to argue over how much they have achieved on this.
I have a Celeron 850, so I'll let you decide.
Actually, yes I do care about the water I waste. The money isn't really an issue, here in the UK technology jobs still pay well enough that I don't need to worry about the few extra pence wasted water might cost. Nevertheless, I take showers rather than baths, try to never fill the kettle more than I need, etc etc.
I'm really not sure if I'm being trolled here or if you actually believe this. Of course, taken literally you're right - no matter how much we screw it up, we're very unlikely to destroy the earth. But we could make it uninhabitable for life as we know it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm typing this post in Firefox right now, it's undoubtedly a great browser, but wouldn't $250 000 be better spent fighting third world poverty or providing clean drinking water?
Of course, when one compares it to the vast sums of money spent on unnecessary gas-guzzling 'SUVs' it doesn't seem so bad after all..
Becuase the kiddies got bored of waiting for their 31337 Gentoo machines to compile.
This is not something you do in your country?
Now the people in Singapore can get Prozac in their water just like us Brits!
Actually, this could have been done with a Gamecube and network adapters. Mario Kart DD multiplayer is a hell of a lot of fun.
I have all three consoles. For me what makes the XBox different is the type of titles you get on it - it naturally attracts a lot of PC developers. I doubt we'd see anything too much like Fable on the other two consoles.
On the N64 some (most) games used battery backed ram, however there was a port on the bottom of the N64 controller into which a memory card could be inserted. There weren't a huge amount of games that used it, Castlevania 64 is the only one that comes to mind now although I'm sure there was more than just that.
That's great: a miror that's slower than the original!
Only problem is, it's all written in BBC Basic.
Try bitlbee - an IRC to IM gateway. I've been using it for sometime and it's superb, I can use my favourite IRC client (irssi) to chat to everyone via an ssh session to my box at home, whatever server room I happen to be holed up in at the time.
Many large companies like to have commerical support for the tools they use. Large companies benefit greatly from using sudo. Large companies buy commerical sudo support. sudo author gets money.
Everybody's happy.
Well, personally I'm more of a skunk fan, but Abraxas in Amsterdam does a superb hash milkshake.
/. really brings them out the woodwork..
Thanks for the education!
(Currently writing this on a Celeron 850, so there's not a hope in hell of my PC running it anyway).
Having worked up until a couple of weeks ago for a company that provides mail services for 8000+ domains I can say with some certainty that whilst there is less wildcard spam than targetted spam, there is still a hell of a lot of wildcard spam. info@ seems to be a favourite for wildcard spammers, so for the moment at least that's definitely an address to avoid.
Just one more reason you should be using authentication using keys rather than passwords (although obviously it's a good idea to set a password on your key.. :)).
This is probably due to usage of the heater in the car rather than anything else.
I reckon you could probably learn a vim command a day for the rest of your life and still not know them all..
Everything I do, I do it to try and avoid that annoying song from that crappy Robin Hood film.
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