This is the single most understandable explanation of that whole door-switching-pseudo-paradoxon that i've ever read. Dear Mr. Coward, you are my hero.
and we could base such an installer on the standard./configure && make && sudo make install procedure. Such a program could find out what options./configure takes and present them in a nice gui.
but it gets very troublesome if the thing doesn't compile;)
your tact is amazing. Sorry, i was in a really bad mood. Don't really know why, i doubt it had anything to do with your post. I feel honestly sorry for that, i'm a very nice guy usually:)
1, Okay, english isn't my first language (and neither is french), so i didn't actually know what entourage meant. Obviously, even if the name is actually descriptive (and even after a quick look at dictionary.com, i don't find the term "outlook" to be descriptive of a groupware/e-mail program, much less "outlook express" for a simple e-mail reader, but that's not the point), users who don't know english really good are back at square one, or you have to limit yourself to very simple and well-known vocabulary when choosing names.
2. I myself would much prefer the graphical variant here. Hence I choose "Actions -> Search for files" from the gnome menu bar (or whatever that is called) and get a sweet little dialog box.
This is a very good example where the GUI is much more easily used than the command line, even moreso if its used infrequently. But it seems to me, that at least Gnome and KDE have dialog boxes there.
Anyways, i think my own argument was still faulty, even if its about complex tasks, those tasks are often easier to do when presented in a good GUI.
3. My point was, i use my desktop pc's internet connection regularly with my laptop, and while setting it up to do so involved reading howtos for a few minutes and -- since i had a rather stripped down custom kernel -- recompiling the kernel, it was honestly very simple to do so. I would guess that on SuSE or RedHat systems, it is even easier and probably doesn't even involve a command line.
5. That would probably be quick, but i guess it is possible already, although it probably requires some mighty voodoo magic.
6. Well, what version of Internet Explorer do you have on your XP (Internet Explorer is, as we all know, part of the Operating System)? Which hotfixes for various parts of the system? Do you have Solitaire and Minesweeper installed (or whatever $USEFUL_PROGRAM is optional with windows)? What Service Pack? You know that there's a big difference between Windows 98 and 98SE, right?
Complex software systems, comprised of various parts that are developed independently are better off having independently versionned components. Just smashing on a big "Version 2003" sticker doesn't really help, just increases confusion if there are updates in some of the components.
We need OpenOffice to fully support all the heavily-used Microsoft file formats.
From my experience, OpenOffice supports those formats way better than even the version of MS Office they were written with.
I've had MS Office files that couldn't be opened by the same Office installation that wrote them. Opened them with OpenOffice, saved them as MS Office there, they shrank in size and were readable again.
1. KDE means K Desktop Environment. I guess thats even more descriptive than windows. Excel, Outlook, Entourage,... all very descriptive. You can't just name everyone of the gazillion open source web browsers "Web Browser", can you?
2. No, doing things graphically doesn't work for everyone. If people understand what they are doing, they can do most of the stuff that requires a console (which isn't that much, anyways) on the console; if they don't understand that, they probably won't be helped all that much by a GUI.
3./etc/init.d/ifconfig start
4. Sure, just convince Microsoft to release the specs.
5. You want to simlify(?) installation by making ppl open up their computer and install a hard disk (jumpering, master/slave,...)?
6. You could always just make symlinks with "human-readable" names to those dirs, couldn't you?
7. Well, Joe Blow. You understand that 2005 > 2003, so far so good. Now imagine a few of those numbers, separated by dots. The most significant number is on the left, and the least significant on the right. Anyways, aren't RedHat et al. doing exactly this already?
The tests found from 26.6.? 16.7.2003 in Berlin instead of.
now thats a classic... i love this. (german speaking mods will agree and mod this post funny)
for all those who don't speak german: the sentence should say "the tests took place in berlin from 6/26 to 7/16 2003 in berlin". "to take place" is "stattfinden" in german, but the verb is split because of the "from... in..." so it's "findet von.... in berlin statt". but when written in isolation, and translated out of context, "findet" means "finds" and "statt" means "instead of".
(non-german-speaking moderators will have learned something and mot this as informative)
you can't imagine how much the resource usage can be optimized by constraining the password to 4 letters max, only caps, and only letters from A to D, no numbers or other symbols. By imposing those limits on the passwords you could implement range-checking and avoid any and all buffer overflows, hence making the system WAY MORE SECURE!
It provides all necessary information to let an execution engine automatically craft and launch appropriate HTTP, SOAP or WebDAV requests and analyse the response whether the attack had success.
so we've just replaced script kiddies with a (very small) shell script?
oh my... i never thought about reincarnation. nevertheless, the other ONEs could have looked just like neo. (i don't really understand why people look the same in the matrix as they do IRL anyways).
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This is the single most understandable explanation of that whole door-switching-pseudo-paradoxon that i've ever read. Dear Mr. Coward, you are my hero.
there IS an "e" at the end of "one". You know, they have an e-backend in their nu.Name.
*wave hand* This is not the pr0n you are looking for.
i'm running gentoo myself, so while i don't have much experience with rpm, anything that involves source code must be good :)
and we could base such an installer on the standard ./configure && make && sudo make install procedure. Such a program could find out what options ./configure takes and present them in a nice gui.
;)
but it gets very troublesome if the thing doesn't compile
'termensch
wtf ist ein 'termensch? *amkopfkratz*
your tact is amazing. :)
Sorry, i was in a really bad mood. Don't really know why, i doubt it had anything to do with your post. I feel honestly sorry for that, i'm a very nice guy usually
1, Okay, english isn't my first language (and neither is french), so i didn't actually know what entourage meant. Obviously, even if the name is actually descriptive (and even after a quick look at dictionary.com, i don't find the term "outlook" to be descriptive of a groupware/e-mail program, much less "outlook express" for a simple e-mail reader, but that's not the point), users who don't know english really good are back at square one, or you have to limit yourself to very simple and well-known vocabulary when choosing names.
2. I myself would much prefer the graphical variant here. Hence I choose "Actions -> Search for files" from the gnome menu bar (or whatever that is called) and get a sweet little dialog box.
This is a very good example where the GUI is much more easily used than the command line, even moreso if its used infrequently. But it seems to me, that at least Gnome and KDE have dialog boxes there.
Anyways, i think my own argument was still faulty, even if its about complex tasks, those tasks are often easier to do when presented in a good GUI.
3. My point was, i use my desktop pc's internet connection regularly with my laptop, and while setting it up to do so involved reading howtos for a few minutes and -- since i had a rather stripped down custom kernel -- recompiling the kernel, it was honestly very simple to do so. I would guess that on SuSE or RedHat systems, it is even easier and probably doesn't even involve a command line.
5. That would probably be quick, but i guess it is possible already, although it probably requires some mighty voodoo magic.
6. Well, what version of Internet Explorer do you have on your XP (Internet Explorer is, as we all know, part of the Operating System)? Which hotfixes for various parts of the system? Do you have Solitaire and Minesweeper installed (or whatever $USEFUL_PROGRAM is optional with windows)? What Service Pack? You know that there's a big difference between Windows 98 and 98SE, right?
Complex software systems, comprised of various parts that are developed independently are better off having independently versionned components. Just smashing on a big "Version 2003" sticker doesn't really help, just increases confusion if there are updates in some of the components.
yes, and even if the jedi misspells "mod" :)
We need OpenOffice to fully support all the heavily-used Microsoft file formats.
From my experience, OpenOffice supports those formats way better than even the version of MS Office they were written with.
I've had MS Office files that couldn't be opened by the same Office installation that wrote them. Opened them with OpenOffice, saved them as MS Office there, they shrank in size and were readable again.
1. KDE means K Desktop Environment. I guess thats even more descriptive than windows. Excel, Outlook, Entourage, ... all very descriptive. You can't just name everyone of the gazillion open source web browsers "Web Browser", can you?
/etc/init.d/ifconfig start
...)?
2. No, doing things graphically doesn't work for everyone. If people understand what they are doing, they can do most of the stuff that requires a console (which isn't that much, anyways) on the console; if they don't understand that, they probably won't be helped all that much by a GUI.
3.
4. Sure, just convince Microsoft to release the specs.
5. You want to simlify(?) installation by making ppl open up their computer and install a hard disk (jumpering, master/slave,
6. You could always just make symlinks with "human-readable" names to those dirs, couldn't you?
7. Well, Joe Blow. You understand that 2005 > 2003, so far so good. Now imagine a few of those numbers, separated by dots. The most significant number is on the left, and the least significant on the right. Anyways, aren't RedHat et al. doing exactly this already?
The tests found from 26.6.? 16.7.2003 in Berlin instead of.
... in ..." so it's "findet von .... in berlin statt". but when written in isolation, and translated out of context, "findet" means "finds" and "statt" means "instead of".
now thats a classic... i love this. (german speaking mods will agree and mod this post funny)
for all those who don't speak german:
the sentence should say "the tests took place in berlin from 6/26 to 7/16 2003 in berlin". "to take place" is "stattfinden" in german, but the verb is split because of the "from
(non-german-speaking moderators will have learned something and mot this as informative)
The Lion King is still popular evenafter all of these years. It's even a musical now.
Yes, and very original, too.
The problem people have with disney is that they have their own senator and are proponents of copyright extension.
Oh yeah, and did i mention plagiats?
not to mention respecting the most important factor in seat allocation for geeks
they should have never sold a movie license to eidos ;)
i think you mean
one crowd simulator to rule them all
it calls for a crusade.
yeah, but you wouldn't call SunOS a UNIX. I mean, its name doesn't even end in an "x"!!
you can't imagine how much the resource usage can be optimized by constraining the password to 4 letters max, only caps, and only letters from A to D, no numbers or other symbols. By imposing those limits on the passwords you could implement range-checking and avoid any and all buffer overflows, hence making the system WAY MORE SECURE!
the only thing i can add to that is:
Blessed are they who submit stories, for their submission will be rehashed three days later.
so we've just replaced script kiddies with a (very small) shell script?
Well, at least journalistic "innovation" is not dead.
Sounds fair.
I'll patent those then.
No trees were harmed in your post, but twenty-seven clueless echelon operators were terribly inconvenienced.
but aren't apples pretty much natural targets for worms?
oh my... i never thought about reincarnation. nevertheless, the other ONEs could have looked just like neo. (i don't really understand why people look the same in the matrix as they do IRL anyways).