You know, its strange how prevalent this piracy battle has become. I was watching "Pirates of the Carribean" the other night (got the DVD for Christmas) and there is a scene at the end where they let Sparrow go off with his ship. I don't recall the lines exactly but it was something to the extent of "sometimes piracy is the right course..."
I stop dead in my tracks and think "Wait a minute, this is a Disney movie!". You know, Disney, home of a trillion copyrights. Jack Vallenti must have cringed at the line. I just found that deeply ironic.
I'm a BSD user and a Linux user and you guys really, really have to get over that photo. She's cute, but if that is the reason you're using BSD, you have issues.
Mine are as well. I re-encoded all of my VBR mp3 files as oggs -q 6 when I heard the difference between the formats. I'm very happy with my vorbis and no longer have any mp3s.
Here's a rather scary notion: at the university I actually had to have a "chat" session with my professor for a web-based class I was taking. Now, I tend to be early for everything so I joined the room and it was just me and her for a few minutes before the rest of the group joined. I've been a computer geek for a long time and honestly, that was still awkward as hell. Especially when I type in my best English to question's like "how r u doing with the reading?"
Some advisors for students were also available via IM as well as grad students who were available in their office hours both physically in their office and on IM. Sometimes its a bit strange, other times it was actually helpful.
Actually, several protocals (AOL IM comes to mind) can actually work over http proxies. They used to do that at the university when the bandwidth outbound was saturated as the http proxy was in another department and not subject to the same throttling.
You proclaimed the Monarchy as a cultural insitution. They are a political institution.
If mean "the British government" as an institution then yes they are fairly stable. I was thinking of their actions over the last 200-300 years. That strikes me as less than stable.
Free society for hundreds of years? I have a silent e on the end of my name. My ancestors were given the choice of being exciled from their home or spend the rest of their lives in a debtors prison.
Britian has a great deal of glory. It is one of my favorite places on this planet but I don't think you and I will ever agree on where that comes from.
Well, since your flamebait is modded insightfull I think I'll flame back and see if the moderaters get it right this time.
Politically, the British monarchy doesn't do much of anything. It is mostly a cultural thing. The monarchy is a cherished institution of Great Britain.
The United Kingdom is a Constitutional Monarchy. It is very much a political thing. Despite the Crown's very limited role in politics they are by defination involved as the Head of State (not Head of Government).
It represents the history and culture of a great country. It has endured for hundreds of years as one of the most stable governments in the West.
The "most stable" is a matter of opinion but I'll let that stand.
The British monarchy has one of the oldest democratic traditions in the world, and Britain gave birth to the philosophers from which our founding fathers derived their inspiration.
Have you ever heard of the Roman Republic? England wasn't a member of that. They were occupied later during the Empire. And yes, Locke and Hobbes provided many ideas for the American Government. But so did Plato, Aristotle and numerous philosophers in France during the Enlightenment. England does not have a monopoly on those ideas and at the time, did not practice them.
Getting rid of the British monarchy would be like getting rid of the monuments of Greece, because they take up space that could be put to better use.
If I recall correctly you still have a good deal of the Parthenon in the British Museum and the Greek have been asking for those pieces back for years.
If you're going to be on a high horse, make sure the horse is on solid ground. And this is flamebait but I feel better saying it.
Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong, but following the beheading of the French monarchy and then the subsequent beheading of those that did the inital beheading, a rather short gentleman came to rule France and subsequently try to take over all of Europe...... so how tall are you exactly?;)
I was moving out of the dorm and didn't have the space to take it with me. It was either sell it for next to nothing or throw it away and I'd rather see it used for something.
I'd have to agree. I have 3 machines in front of me: a 1700+ Athlon XP, 300 mhz PII and 366 PII laptop. I can do everything on the 366 (slackware) that I do on the Athlon (gentoo) sans Quake 3. I'd like some more ram in all 3 machines but honestly they're fine.
Then again, a year ago my fast machine was a 366 Celeron, the server was a 80 Mhz sparcstation and my laptop at that time was a 133 Mhz P1. The 366 Celery is now being used by my dad, the laptop died and I had to sell the sparc.
Just because something (computer or otherwise) is old doesn't mean its useless.
A burp is generally too much air (or some sort of gas. Lets not think about that) in the stomach which burps out. A hiccup is what happens when your stomach is low on presure.
I'm pretty much a gnome-only fellow; gnome 2.4 on this gentoo box and dropline gnome on my slackware laptop. That said, I still need qt and the kde-libs. I rarely use them (well, I really only use them for lyx and k3b as there isn't anything like k3b for gtk) but I still need them.
Stop arguing some stupid holy war (I like gnome and I'm not moving and I have friends that swear by KDE and aren't moving). If United isn't going to take KDE, someone needs to build a dropline-ese KDE that will bold right on.
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Honestly, I don't buy that. Was I a bad driver at 16? Probably. If the age had been 18 would I have been a bad driver when I started then? Probably. Driving in this country is something that comes with experience and I didn't get much experience with a car until after I had my license. What is needed is a better way of training people before they get out on the road. Even then, practice through driving is probably one of the best ways to improve skills.
And before anyone ask's I'm 21. I went into the liquor store the other day for the first time just to buy something (because I could) and wasn't carded. And I'm tempted to go back and asked to be carded on the principle...
Yes, most of the Linux distros are far behind Debian in using the RPM package format. DEBs are far better.
Why? What makes a.deb so superior to.rpm or.tgz? Usually people argue dependencies but dependences aren't tracked by dpkg or rpm. apt-get can track them for both formats. And alien was able to convert rpms to debs or tar.gz's fine when I was running slink.
There is nothing wrong with most package formats. It is how they are used that makes a difference.
Thats a bit of a long list. New scheduler, pre-emption for the kernel, some new drivers, ALSA is the default for sound in this version. You can burn cd's without ide-scsi. devfs is now deprecated in favor of udev (which is roughtly the same thing but userspace as opposed to devfs's kernelspace). sysfs is also new in 2.6 which adds some information mounted in/sys. I hear firewire support is much improved as well and many other things I'm probably forgetting.
To the end user (me) 2.6 is much faster than 2.4 both in boot time and while operation. Kudos to all of the developers:). Now you'll have to excuse me while I reboot.
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What good are civil liberties when you're dead?
Or as I prefer to see it, what good is life without civil liberties?
You know, its strange how prevalent this piracy battle has become. I was watching "Pirates of the Carribean" the other night (got the DVD for Christmas) and there is a scene at the end where they let Sparrow go off with his ship. I don't recall the lines exactly but it was something to the extent of "sometimes piracy is the right course ..."
I stop dead in my tracks and think "Wait a minute, this is a Disney movie!". You know, Disney, home of a trillion copyrights. Jack Vallenti must have cringed at the line. I just found that deeply ironic.
Ok, seriously now ...
I'm a BSD user and a Linux user and you guys really, really have to get over that photo. She's cute, but if that is the reason you're using BSD, you have issues.
Hmmm, I wonder if Carly would care that they can replace him for less than 1/10th his salary and probably do as good of a job.
Um, Carly isn't a him: Bio
Rest of the comment I agree with though.
She has a bachelor's in medieval history and philosophy. So that's the secret to the tech field!
Mine are as well. I re-encoded all of my VBR mp3 files as oggs -q 6 when I heard the difference between the formats. I'm very happy with my vorbis and no longer have any mp3s.
Here's a rather scary notion: at the university I actually had to have a "chat" session with my professor for a web-based class I was taking. Now, I tend to be early for everything so I joined the room and it was just me and her for a few minutes before the rest of the group joined. I've been a computer geek for a long time and honestly, that was still awkward as hell. Especially when I type in my best English to question's like "how r u doing with the reading?"
Some advisors for students were also available via IM as well as grad students who were available in their office hours both physically in their office and on IM. Sometimes its a bit strange, other times it was actually helpful.
Actually, several protocals (AOL IM comes to mind) can actually work over http proxies. They used to do that at the university when the bandwidth outbound was saturated as the http proxy was in another department and not subject to the same throttling.
Thats first amendment (freedom of speach/religion).
The second amendment has to do with the right to bear arms and has its own political firestorm around it. That needs no help from video games.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go bear my BFG10k and vaporize my brother.
Now that, I would agree with. :)
And now I'm going to bed.
You proclaimed the Monarchy as a cultural insitution. They are a political institution.
If mean "the British government" as an institution then yes they are fairly stable. I was thinking of their actions over the last 200-300 years. That strikes me as less than stable.
Free society for hundreds of years? I have a silent e on the end of my name. My ancestors were given the choice of being exciled from their home or spend the rest of their lives in a debtors prison.
Britian has a great deal of glory. It is one of my favorite places on this planet but I don't think you and I will ever agree on where that comes from.
True, but I said try to take over :).
He just didn't have much luck with Russia, England, Austria and Prussia.
Unprovisioned army in a Russian winter. Ugh.
Well, since your flamebait is modded insightfull I think I'll flame back and see if the moderaters get it right this time.
Politically, the British monarchy doesn't do much of anything. It is mostly a cultural thing. The monarchy is a cherished institution of Great Britain.
The United Kingdom is a Constitutional Monarchy. It is very much a political thing. Despite the Crown's very limited role in politics they are by defination involved as the Head of State (not Head of Government).
It represents the history and culture of a great country. It has endured for hundreds of years as one of the most stable governments in the West.
The "most stable" is a matter of opinion but I'll let that stand.
The British monarchy has one of the oldest democratic traditions in the world, and Britain gave birth to the philosophers from which our founding fathers derived their inspiration.
Have you ever heard of the Roman Republic? England wasn't a member of that. They were occupied later during the Empire. And yes, Locke and Hobbes provided many ideas for the American Government. But so did Plato, Aristotle and numerous philosophers in France during the Enlightenment. England does not have a monopoly on those ideas and at the time, did not practice them.
Getting rid of the British monarchy would be like getting rid of the monuments of Greece, because they take up space that could be put to better use.
If I recall correctly you still have a good deal of the Parthenon in the British Museum and the Greek have been asking for those pieces back for years.
If you're going to be on a high horse, make sure the horse is on solid ground. And this is flamebait but I feel better saying it.
Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong, but following the beheading of the French monarchy and then the subsequent beheading of those that did the inital beheading, a rather short gentleman came to rule France and subsequently try to take over all of Europe ... ... so how tall are you exactly? ;)
... because posting a hyperlink to it on slashdot's front page will do wonders for that server.
... um, no.
The attention for the money here is surely good but well, a slashdoting to a server having issues
I was moving out of the dorm and didn't have the space to take it with me. It was either sell it for next to nothing or throw it away and I'd rather see it used for something.
Harold Ramis played Igon in 2 movies I believe. I don't know who did the cartoons. I was actually the staypuff marshmallow man. :)
I'd have to agree. I have 3 machines in front of me: a 1700+ Athlon XP, 300 mhz PII and 366 PII laptop. I can do everything on the 366 (slackware) that I do on the Athlon (gentoo) sans Quake 3. I'd like some more ram in all 3 machines but honestly they're fine.
Then again, a year ago my fast machine was a 366 Celeron, the server was a 80 Mhz sparcstation and my laptop at that time was a 133 Mhz P1. The 366 Celery is now being used by my dad, the laptop died and I had to sell the sparc.
Just because something (computer or otherwise) is old doesn't mean its useless.
... that just had a vision of Igon walking around with a PKE meter searching for "hotspots".
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Maybe I watched too many cartoons as a kid
A burp is generally too much air (or some sort of gas. Lets not think about that) in the stomach which burps out. A hiccup is what happens when your stomach is low on presure.
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Or so I've been told
Aww, you can never have too much Christmas crud.
Besides, too much of this is like watching too many TV talk-shows (Springer et all). It starts to rot your mind.
Cheers.
get working on building the KDE add-on.
I'm pretty much a gnome-only fellow; gnome 2.4 on this gentoo box and dropline gnome on my slackware laptop. That said, I still need qt and the kde-libs. I rarely use them (well, I really only use them for lyx and k3b as there isn't anything like k3b for gtk) but I still need them.
Stop arguing some stupid holy war (I like gnome and I'm not moving and I have friends that swear by KDE and aren't moving). If United isn't going to take KDE, someone needs to build a dropline-ese KDE that will bold right on.
Honestly, I don't buy that. Was I a bad driver at 16? Probably. If the age had been 18 would I have been a bad driver when I started then? Probably. Driving in this country is something that comes with experience and I didn't get much experience with a car until after I had my license. What is needed is a better way of training people before they get out on the road. Even then, practice through driving is probably one of the best ways to improve skills.
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And before anyone ask's I'm 21. I went into the liquor store the other day for the first time just to buy something (because I could) and wasn't carded. And I'm tempted to go back and asked to be carded on the principle
Yes, most of the Linux distros are far behind Debian in using the RPM package format. DEBs are far better.
.deb so superior to .rpm or .tgz? Usually people argue dependencies but dependences aren't tracked by dpkg or rpm. apt-get can track them for both formats. And alien was able to convert rpms to debs or tar.gz's fine when I was running slink.
Why? What makes a
There is nothing wrong with most package formats. It is how they are used that makes a difference.
http://minion.de/nvidia.html has patches to make the nvidia driver at the moment work on 2.6. I'm using it currently without issues.
Thats a bit of a long list. New scheduler, pre-emption for the kernel, some new drivers, ALSA is the default for sound in this version. You can burn cd's without ide-scsi. devfs is now deprecated in favor of udev (which is roughtly the same thing but userspace as opposed to devfs's kernelspace). sysfs is also new in 2.6 which adds some information mounted in /sys. I hear firewire support is much improved as well and many other things I'm probably forgetting.
:). Now you'll have to excuse me while I reboot.
To the end user (me) 2.6 is much faster than 2.4 both in boot time and while operation. Kudos to all of the developers