All I have to say is Columbia advertises Kermit as their diety-status achievement all the friggin time. It's rather annoying. Um, it's a nice protocol guys, get over yourselves and stop pretending it's the cure to AIDS and purveyor of world peace. I'm like "ok, guys, you're great and all, but upgrade my dorm connection to something a lil' better than 10BaseT, and then we'll talk."
I mean, there I was troubleshooting a crypto map and *bam* 20 year old boobs delivered to my doorstep. It almost makes me wish my routers would freak out more often.
Wednesday 12-2PM: Schoell (DO) quantum mechanics for pedestrians.
I'm sure this lecture will deal with the newly found danger of falling through covered manholes due to quantum tunneling, but how at the same time you have a chance of surviving a head-on encounter with a car! This lecture will change pedestrians' lives forever!
I use a billion monkeys, each looking at one particular bit of a scenery, then I tell them to line up and take turn at the keyboard, to type what they saw in emacs (the favorite monkey editor, it requires a lot of dexterity), and compile a very large XPM file.
...and then you sold it to Microsoft, and they boxed it as: (drumroll...) Longhorn!
I think posting this on/. is the dumbest move ever for someone hoping to buy the die. Putting this auction in front of possibly the largest assembly of D&D players in the universe is not going to help keep that price down! I predict it will sell to some sorry/savvy geek for 10g's at least.
"What the deuce? Of course! [Into recorder] It seems with Darl incapacitated my McBradicidal efforts are futile. I must do all I can to accelerate his convalescence..."
I'm at a university (Columbia) which is connected to Internet2. It automatically routes (as far as I know) across Internet2 when appropriate, which means to students at the other schools on Internet2. And we all know who P2P's biggest users are... so I've been using BT nonstop to great effect here.
Also, Columbia's idiotic bandwidth policies (can't upload >100MB/hr or they administratively sever your ethernet port) don't apply to data across Internet2. So I usually don't get in trouble letting the upstream bandwidth run free on bittorrent. I frequently observe 500kb/s on a single torrent. Not bad for a 10mbit dorm connection (room-to-room speeds max out at around 1000kb/s for comparison).
I was going to say that you sir, are a genious. But then I saw that your username is EmCeeHawking, and it's quite evident that you indeed are. I love all of your work, by the way. Especially "All My Shootin's Be Drivebys" and "F*ck the Creationists"
Windows:
1) Download it again, 2) Run it,...shit! 3) Download it again, 4) Run it,...fuck! 5) Ask roommate if he's ever had x problem...nope. 6) Give up. Go out, have fun, get drunk, get lucky. Forget about your computer.
That sounds like a much better deal than the Linux way to me...
I'm sorry. But isn't there a problem with a 900 page guide to an operating system? This isn't even advanced server. This is RH9 desktop. This is why I stopped using Linux on my desktop. It took me way more time to learn how to set something up, try to set it up, troubleshoot, and find the dirty hacks than to actually do what I was trying to do. Yes, it ran faster than windows and philosophically better, but I just didn't have time in my life!
So in regards to linux being ready for the prime-time desktop, well I think that it's still a hobbyist's OS. The day when you can plug stuff in and it all just *works* properly will be great. I know Lycoris and Lindows are working toward this, but doesn't it seem like they're just layering wrappers upon wrappers on top of the fundamentally unelegant backend? Take USB keys for example. You need to have SCSI compiled to use them. Why???
Sorry for the rant. But I see many posts making fun of 900 pages, and many posts making fun of RH not being ready for the desktop, but if you look at things from a realistic perspective, it's just *not ready* for mainstream. RH is not an idealistic company. They are reealistic, want to make money, and are succeeding at it, so I'd tend to think they know what they're talking about. Maybe linux is ready for tightly controlled office settings where you have homogenous hardware, set it up so it all works dandy, don't touch it and pray it doesn't break down, but it's not good where you have people with many diverse needs from their computers.
Mod me down, burn me at the stake, but this really is a personal reaction to all the "+5 Funny" posts on this page.
What about my sharpie? Is it actually acidic and going to eat a "Nasty Pr0n 3 of 17" imprint through my disc? That would suck. We're probably going to end up preserving CD-Rs naked (labelless) in little labeled air-tight jars like lab specimen.
It was kinda predictable, no big surprises (vs. the other two), and the end was a let-down, I thought. It overall felt a little rushed in terms of acting and production. The dialog was much more humorous than in the past. I was entertained and glad to see the series concluded, but not impressed.
I do like the 4 posters I got along with the soundtrack for free at Loews Times Square. It pays to line up at 8AM (even though I had pre-bought the tickets).
I agree with you that no program out there right now works as well as iTunes. iTunes is great because it gives people what they want in terms of features, nothing more, nothing less. I love the categorization, search box (it's SO EASY!) and music sharing, ripping, and burning. The clones out there arne't anywhere near the level of features and stability yet. It's so good in fact that i'm switching back to windows from linux mainly to use it. say what you will, but it's really a killer app. i use mozilla firebird and thunderbird in windows anyway so really not much M$ stuff overall.
oh yeah and I like photoshop better than the gimp. sometimes you just need the best tool for the job. but i still use unix for my servers, where it is the best-suited tool for the job.
I would not be surprised if The Simpsons' importance as a piece of identity and cash cow for Fox will make this lawsuit trivial. They might settle or something, but I highly doubt they would do anything to harm the show. Especially compared to if it was some no-name show that nobody watches.
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All I have to say is Columbia advertises Kermit as their diety-status achievement all the friggin time. It's rather annoying. Um, it's a nice protocol guys, get over yourselves and stop pretending it's the cure to AIDS and purveyor of world peace. I'm like "ok, guys, you're great and all, but upgrade my dorm connection to something a lil' better than 10BaseT, and then we'll talk."
Well, I believe in Santa Claus. I'm smart enough to know RMS is nothing but a mystical character, though.
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week
Why, so you can be sure you have to reboot more than once per year? Do you find comfort in predictable unreliability?
I think posting this on /. is the dumbest move ever for someone hoping to buy the die. Putting this auction in front of possibly the largest assembly of D&D players in the universe is not going to help keep that price down! I predict it will sell to some sorry/savvy geek for 10g's at least.
Port80 Software Co.? Should be called Port81 Software, seeing as thanks to various IIS worms many ISPs have blocked port 80 for their clients!
Funny you should say that, because even with the broken link things were going rather slow. I don't think it's my OC-12, either...
My money's on the Beagle 2. That think can nip at the other bots' ankles like it's nobody's business!
I wanna see the day that a judge just gets fed up with SCO and bitchslaps them. Let's gooooooo supreme court!
sshhhh! you weren't supposed to tell him!
"What the deuce? Of course! [Into recorder] It seems with Darl incapacitated my McBradicidal efforts are futile. I must do all I can to accelerate his convalescence..."
"...Nick-knack paddy-whack give the dog a bone."
699.00m/s, obviously
I'm at a university (Columbia) which is connected to Internet2. It automatically routes (as far as I know) across Internet2 when appropriate, which means to students at the other schools on Internet2. And we all know who P2P's biggest users are... so I've been using BT nonstop to great effect here. Also, Columbia's idiotic bandwidth policies (can't upload >100MB/hr or they administratively sever your ethernet port) don't apply to data across Internet2. So I usually don't get in trouble letting the upstream bandwidth run free on bittorrent. I frequently observe 500kb/s on a single torrent. Not bad for a 10mbit dorm connection (room-to-room speeds max out at around 1000kb/s for comparison).
Sorry, couldn't resist
SCO feels like the virtual class of the business world. Bloated and ineffectual, and overall useless.
I was going to say that you sir, are a genious. But then I saw that your username is EmCeeHawking, and it's quite evident that you indeed are. I love all of your work, by the way. Especially "All My Shootin's Be Drivebys" and "F*ck the Creationists"
Well, BSD's been dead for a long time, and look at how great it's doing :-)
heh.
I'm sorry. But isn't there a problem with a 900 page guide to an operating system? This isn't even advanced server. This is RH9 desktop. This is why I stopped using Linux on my desktop. It took me way more time to learn how to set something up, try to set it up, troubleshoot, and find the dirty hacks than to actually do what I was trying to do. Yes, it ran faster than windows and philosophically better, but I just didn't have time in my life!
So in regards to linux being ready for the prime-time desktop, well I think that it's still a hobbyist's OS. The day when you can plug stuff in and it all just *works* properly will be great. I know Lycoris and Lindows are working toward this, but doesn't it seem like they're just layering wrappers upon wrappers on top of the fundamentally unelegant backend? Take USB keys for example. You need to have SCSI compiled to use them. Why???
Sorry for the rant. But I see many posts making fun of 900 pages, and many posts making fun of RH not being ready for the desktop, but if you look at things from a realistic perspective, it's just *not ready* for mainstream. RH is not an idealistic company. They are reealistic, want to make money, and are succeeding at it, so I'd tend to think they know what they're talking about. Maybe linux is ready for tightly controlled office settings where you have homogenous hardware, set it up so it all works dandy, don't touch it and pray it doesn't break down, but it's not good where you have people with many diverse needs from their computers.
Mod me down, burn me at the stake, but this really is a personal reaction to all the "+5 Funny" posts on this page.
What about my sharpie? Is it actually acidic and going to eat a "Nasty Pr0n 3 of 17" imprint through my disc? That would suck. We're probably going to end up preserving CD-Rs naked (labelless) in little labeled air-tight jars like lab specimen.
It was kinda predictable, no big surprises (vs. the other two), and the end was a let-down, I thought. It overall felt a little rushed in terms of acting and production. The dialog was much more humorous than in the past. I was entertained and glad to see the series concluded, but not impressed.
I do like the 4 posters I got along with the soundtrack for free at Loews Times Square. It pays to line up at 8AM (even though I had pre-bought the tickets).
I agree with you that no program out there right now works as well as iTunes. iTunes is great because it gives people what they want in terms of features, nothing more, nothing less. I love the categorization, search box (it's SO EASY!) and music sharing, ripping, and burning. The clones out there arne't anywhere near the level of features and stability yet. It's so good in fact that i'm switching back to windows from linux mainly to use it. say what you will, but it's really a killer app. i use mozilla firebird and thunderbird in windows anyway so really not much M$ stuff overall.
oh yeah and I like photoshop better than the gimp. sometimes you just need the best tool for the job. but i still use unix for my servers, where it is the best-suited tool for the job.
I would not be surprised if The Simpsons' importance as a piece of identity and cash cow for Fox will make this lawsuit trivial. They might settle or something, but I highly doubt they would do anything to harm the show. Especially compared to if it was some no-name show that nobody watches.
:-)
And that's politics