Yeah, he can complain all he wants about the government/DARPA/whatever. That doesn't mean that DARPA has to continue funding him....think of it this way. Say you are contracted as a software engineer by Microsoft...you then go on the evening news badmouthing Microsoft, and saying they are corporate nazis or whatever (I am not sure exactly what this guy said, so that may be a bit harsh, but you get the idea). You could pretty much expect Microsoft to cancel their contract with you at the earliest opportunity, and they'd be right.
Where I live (Madison, WI, USA) we have the national air guard here, and they fly numerous test flights each day. They fly out of Dane Country - Truax Field (The main airport in Madison, serves private pilots, charters, commercial passenger/freight flights, and the guard base)
It is interesting to fly out of that airport, as approach and tower give you some scary sounding instructions:
"Cessna 61 Alpha hold short runway 18, traffic is flight of F-16's on final"
"Cessna 61 Alpha, number 3 to land, follow the flight of F-16's on final" followed immediately by something informing you that traffic to your immediate rear is a 747 that was overtaking you that they had to give a go around to.
Not to mention being behind an F-16 on a taxiway is an interesting experience...the tower has you keep your distance.
Every now and then they have to get somewhere in a hurry (Madison Air Guard is tasked to defend Chicago, and they can get there in 12 minutes if they have to I'm told), and basically all traffic on the taxiways stops to get the -16s to some runway that they can lift off of.
I know a few people have already replied to say this, but I have done this several times myself, when I accidentally scratched a CD to the point where it was unusable (cats batted it around the room or something.)
If you call the company, or email, and promise to provide proof (as in sending the original CD back to them) they will often send you a new CD for free. I have done this with EA Games, and Microsoft. Probably a few others as well. I had one company that refused to replace it, stating that there was no way for them to verify that i was sending back the original disc (umm, yeah, right), but for the most part, companies will let you do that either for free, charging for shipping, or a small fee for the media (a $10 media fee, as one of the other repliers put it). You usually don't even have to come up with a receipt, if you have the original media around to send back to them. However, if it's a copy protected game, and you lost it, then I wouldn't count on them sending you a new CD. If you scratched it badly and can send it back, yeah, but otherwise they'll often assume you want a free legitimate CD.
yes, very nice. You can also use knoppix to install gentoo to an encrypted root filesystem...very cool, if not all that useful if you don't have a laptop...
I used the knoppix CD to encrypt my filesystem without doing a clean install, and it worked well...also came in useful when I b0rked my grub.conf and forgot to put the correct entry in for the encrypted root...was able to change it easily.
>> One is confusion among a less educated (some might
>> also say intelligent)
>I wont jump for your "Mac users are stupid" trollbait,
>but let me me use my words to describe your theory:
I don't think that's what he was saying, it came across to me more of as a "some apple users are less educated or intellegent" kind of thing, and they are the ones who would get confused, just as I've had to help some real morons on the gentoo forums and such (O.T. word of advice to the world: if you've never used linux before, don't start with gentoo. it's not incredibly user friendly. Spend a month with red hat or mandrake and THEN go to gentoo). It didn't read to me as a broad generalization of apple users or anything. Maybe he did mean it that way, but I doubt it. Just trying to heal your bruised ego, heh.
well, i started a build of:
mozilla, fluxbox, kde 3.1 (all of it), xfree 4.3.0, and a few support packages (freetype, etc) that were dependencies and it finished overnight on a Athlon XP 1900+ w/512M ram, and that was without using ccache or distcc. As far as disk space, I don't worry about it cause I have a few dozen gigs free usually. I would think that the temporary build directories take up a few hundred megs...
Specifically, that will work in X Windows, by all means send me an email. Figure out my email by the username of my URL (which is dead) and the FQDN....send me an email if you ever get one...i'd be really interested in this.
my gentoo gives me xft support automatically because of my USE flags....more people should look into gentoo. It's great.
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gah, i was too busy comparing font sizes that i didn't even notice the numbers not being there, heh....you're right
incidentally, opera is all that renders This page that i go to constantly correctly....mozilla/konq can either do the correct stylesheet (depending on how they identify themselves) or the correct layout...not both... Here's a link to comments i posted about this on another discussion...
Besides the font, which is probably just because i have it set that way...?
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please post a screenshot of how it should look, as i don't see any problems off the bat in mozilla 1.3b
opera crashes on my gentoo system, so i can't check that out.
bah, it was slashdotted before i post the link due to like 80 files on kaaza anyways...And it's on their second internet connection which they only use for kazaa anyways. They'd be happy that people were impressed with it.
anyways, to summarize the page, the kegerator had a broken thermostat, so they built one, and have it controlled by a computer. the web page has graphs of temperature, etc...you can list over different lengths of time, etc. It's actually quite neat. It has some other stuff too, but I can't think of it right now. That's what you get when you have a house with chemical engineering students and electrical engineering students.
As for overseas sites, maybe thats where we need treaties and insentives for foriegn governments to crack down on said open relays (I know it will never happen)
Actually, I'm sure the Nigerian government will be glad to help out, seeing as they are losing all these taxes when the money gets smuggled out of the country.
Jellomizer's post is an "ovious lie";-)
In that case, would you have to give it a hystorectomy??
(sorry, i cant spell and am too lazy to dictionary.com)
gah, my friends have you beat.... The Internet-enabled Kegerator!
warning, it's hosted on a DSL line, and for sure they're hitting up kazaa pretty bad, so it'll be really really slow....
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[takes out wallet] crazyaxemaniac, I'd like to buy your rock...
Yeah, he can complain all he wants about the government/DARPA/whatever. That doesn't mean that DARPA has to continue funding him....think of it this way. Say you are contracted as a software engineer by Microsoft...you then go on the evening news badmouthing Microsoft, and saying they are corporate nazis or whatever (I am not sure exactly what this guy said, so that may be a bit harsh, but you get the idea). You could pretty much expect Microsoft to cancel their contract with you at the earliest opportunity, and they'd be right.
shit, i lived with a 14.4 modem until about 1998, and a 28.8 til 99 when I came to college. I would have killed for 128k back in high school.
and how on earth is that worse than reading news from a guy that looks like:
THIS
Where I live (Madison, WI, USA) we have the national air guard here, and they fly numerous test flights each day. They fly out of Dane Country - Truax Field (The main airport in Madison, serves private pilots, charters, commercial passenger/freight flights, and the guard base)
It is interesting to fly out of that airport, as approach and tower give you some scary sounding instructions:
"Cessna 61 Alpha hold short runway 18, traffic is flight of F-16's on final"
"Cessna 61 Alpha, number 3 to land, follow the flight of F-16's on final" followed immediately by something informing you that traffic to your immediate rear is a 747 that was overtaking you that they had to give a go around to.
Not to mention being behind an F-16 on a taxiway is an interesting experience...the tower has you keep your distance.
Every now and then they have to get somewhere in a hurry (Madison Air Guard is tasked to defend Chicago, and they can get there in 12 minutes if they have to I'm told), and basically all traffic on the taxiways stops to get the -16s to some runway that they can lift off of.
Occasionally a B-2 will be around, as well.
[homer voice]
HAHAHAHA
It's funny cause it's true!!!
[/homer]
with the size of that back, he could carry many of us on his back...
Hmmm....
Step 1: Open up Cowboy Neal back-taxi service
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!!
I know a few people have already replied to say this, but I have done this several times myself, when I accidentally scratched a CD to the point where it was unusable (cats batted it around the room or something.)
If you call the company, or email, and promise to provide proof (as in sending the original CD back to them) they will often send you a new CD for free. I have done this with EA Games, and Microsoft. Probably a few others as well.
I had one company that refused to replace it, stating that there was no way for them to verify that i was sending back the original disc (umm, yeah, right), but for the most part, companies will let you do that either for free, charging for shipping, or a small fee for the media (a $10 media fee, as one of the other repliers put it). You usually don't even have to come up with a receipt, if you have the original media around to send back to them. However, if it's a copy protected game, and you lost it, then I wouldn't count on them sending you a new CD. If you scratched it badly and can send it back, yeah, but otherwise they'll often assume you want a free legitimate CD.
hate to say it, but i'm on his side... bitching about 1 trivial spelling error in a post is a waste of a post.
it didn't add to the discussion, nor was it humorous...Did it make you special to make fun of somebody for 1 simple mistake?
sheesh...
holy shit, thats the funniest thing i've read all day.
I will live my life by those rules from hereon.
yes, very nice. You can also use knoppix to install gentoo to an encrypted root filesystem...very cool, if not all that useful if you don't have a laptop...
I used the knoppix CD to encrypt my filesystem without doing a clean install, and it worked well...also came in useful when I b0rked my grub.conf and forgot to put the correct entry in for the encrypted root...was able to change it easily.
It manages your man pages, duh
heh
it requires the kde libs, not kde...i run konqueror in fluxbox all the time.
Although, maybe your beef is with some sort of licensing???
>> One is confusion among a less educated (some might
>> also say intelligent)
>I wont jump for your "Mac users are stupid" trollbait,
>but let me me use my words to describe your theory:
I don't think that's what he was saying, it came across to me more of as a "some apple users are less educated or intellegent" kind of thing, and they are the ones who would get confused, just as I've had to help some real morons on the gentoo forums and such (O.T. word of advice to the world: if you've never used linux before, don't start with gentoo. it's not incredibly user friendly. Spend a month with red hat or mandrake and THEN go to gentoo). It didn't read to me as a broad generalization of apple users or anything. Maybe he did mean it that way, but I doubt it. Just trying to heal your bruised ego, heh.
well, i started a build of: mozilla, fluxbox, kde 3.1 (all of it), xfree 4.3.0, and a few support packages (freetype, etc) that were dependencies and it finished overnight on a Athlon XP 1900+ w/512M ram, and that was without using ccache or distcc. As far as disk space, I don't worry about it cause I have a few dozen gigs free usually. I would think that the temporary build directories take up a few hundred megs...
Specifically, that will work in X Windows, by all means send me an email. Figure out my email by the username of my URL (which is dead) and the FQDN....send me an email if you ever get one...i'd be really interested in this.
If there is one, I'm too lazy to look, heh.
my gentoo gives me xft support automatically because of my USE flags....more people should look into gentoo. It's great.
gah, i was too busy comparing font sizes that i didn't even notice the numbers not being there, heh....you're right
incidentally, opera is all that renders This page that i go to constantly correctly....mozilla/konq can either do the correct stylesheet (depending on how they identify themselves) or the correct layout...not both...
Here's a link to comments i posted about this on another discussion...
I would think it wouldn't be all that hard to track down the rotor blades.....
hmm, looks pretty similar to mine
Besides the font, which is probably just because i have it set that way...?
please post a screenshot of how it should look, as i don't see any problems off the bat in mozilla 1.3b opera crashes on my gentoo system, so i can't check that out.
bah, it was slashdotted before i post the link due to like 80 files on kaaza anyways...And it's on their second internet connection which they only use for kazaa anyways. They'd be happy that people were impressed with it. anyways, to summarize the page, the kegerator had a broken thermostat, so they built one, and have it controlled by a computer. the web page has graphs of temperature, etc...you can list over different lengths of time, etc. It's actually quite neat. It has some other stuff too, but I can't think of it right now. That's what you get when you have a house with chemical engineering students and electrical engineering students.
As for overseas sites, maybe thats where we need treaties and insentives for foriegn governments to crack down on said open relays (I know it will never happen)
Actually, I'm sure the Nigerian government will be glad to help out, seeing as they are losing all these taxes when the money gets smuggled out of the country.
Jellomizer's post is an "ovious lie" ;-)
In that case, would you have to give it a hystorectomy?? (sorry, i cant spell and am too lazy to dictionary.com)
gah, my friends have you beat....
The Internet-enabled Kegerator! warning, it's hosted on a DSL line, and for sure they're hitting up kazaa pretty bad, so it'll be really really slow....