... while trolling along cyberspace for a fellow victim, you deliberately violated the semantical integrity not only of the word "rational" but also the very sense of your own underdeveloped reasoning. Don't worry, in America there's a place for everyone. I'm sure if you keep trying, you'll find the courage to educate yourself. You should APOLOGIZE you know.
First of all, let me apologize for being a Canadian (a neighbo(u)r of the USA). Secondly, for butting in as a predjudiced "neutral" (Canadians, as you know, are neutral in everything, including sex, opinions, random thought processes, and neutrality itself.
I humbly apologize for my American brothers who dared to use free air space and freedom itself to keep an eye on one of the most hypocritically fascist and opressively dangerous group of brainwashed and fearful people in the world.
You are evidently confusing "rationality" with "rationalization." In any case, Truth is one notch ABOVE logic. Some of the greatest tragedies of history were deliberately perpetrated in the name of what is or seems to be "rational" or logical. Many a "final solution" has been based on logic. Turning the other cheek is a applicable philosophy as is not spitting in the Buddha's face. That works as long as one doesn't turn that cheek to gunfire.
like the "Taliban religio fanatical assholeo culture..., like the communist culture of repression, emprisonment of dissidents, execution of political "enemies," etc. Not so long ago those who tried to enliven the ancient traditions were put in prison to be "reeducated" into forgetting the past.
Let me get this straight; Katz, you seem to be saying that the the US should apologize to the bastards who rammed an American plane in international air space just for being in their way; that the US should apologize to them for having to feed and keep the American prisoners. Maybe the Tibetans should also apologize for placing their heads in the way of Chineese rifle butts and bleeing upon their agressors. Maybe several hundred students should apologize for being killed by and thus wasting precious bullets, only they can't because they're dead.
As I wrote earlier; some cultures suck, only no-one dares to say that because it's not politically correct. In other words, "sometimes it is better to smash face than to save face." -Con(phew)scious
Thanks 2 U 2. I thought I was pretty smart because I've been using BSD for years (no double boot)., but with your post and the scandisk info, I feel I've learned more of the essential than I have by reading every labyrinthically confounding installation file on the web in "How To Land"...
I don't know how to thank you, even though I'm feeling kinda dumb right now. I have been so trained by M$ (like a little doggy) to click YES to something that seems as drastically important as fixing errors (such as not wanting to use Windows), I just did it automacially, like an idiot trying to solve a problem that didn't exist. Thank you again! This has brought to mind hundreds of similar errors on my part. Never again....
Yours truly (stupid),
Glanz
The reason for there being fewer BSD posts in user groups is simple: there are fewer problems with BSD. No problem=no post. Therefore, following your line of "flying-by-your-balls" logic, Mandrake posts are higher au prorata to the number of its confused users. You don't hear any screaming fron the BSD side of Geekdon not because it's dead, but because it isn't in pain like any Linux distro not based on Debian. And as far as Red Hat goes. I'll leave that for the money makers and center-of-the-universe servers of porno sites and used car salesmen with web sites.
Good luck on the Peanut Installation. I couldn't stop it from deferring to Windows; I mean the double boot worked once or twice, then it bowed to windows as if the mbr were totally ignored; as if it were designed by Gates to discourage potential Linux users. Look, just do a "minimal" Debian installation. Go get it piece by piece from the Debian site. You'll be better off.
You've got the same tastes, I see. I too like watching people throw their boxes down the stairs. I once saw a ThinkPad hit the concrete after being tossed out of the fifth floor window of a lab at McGill University. It was a tragic site, and very amusing. Pathos was high.
As far as educating people is concerned, I believe it's possible, especially now with Debian/GNU. Have you ever read the "Q" files on the M$ Tech Web site? That'a a labyrinth worthy of any game developer. The windows OS is quite simple really. It takes up only 50 MB of a hard disk, with all the patches and security updates, about 3 Gigs. But still, I've seen "minimalist" installations of Linux that run more quickly and efficiently than W2k. The only problem is Star Office that can't seem to get their Java trip right. So, who's gonna write the new newbie book? you or me? Frankly I don't know enough and I'm too BSD formed. Guess it'll have to be you. I'll buy a copy, so you're assured of one sale.
Windoze works for most, although as you have said, it is indeed frustrating. Personally I use FreeBSD at work and Debian on a double boot system, WinMe on the other side for the family. To be honest with you I've done more tweaking because of and with Linux than I had ever done on any Windows system. I haven't had one single problem with BSD in fifteen years. My personal solution, because I am lazy and don't particularly like Linux will be to buy a Mac Titanium Power Book with OS X pre-installed. I don't particularly care if I can watch the latest version of Star Wars on a DVD drive, or use MS Messenger , or keep up with the very expensive "final offers" of M$ Corp. concerning "NET." I don't wanna big ol' pickle, I just wanna ride. If I was strapped for gelt, I'd stick with Debian as the only OS because of apt-get. I may be weird, but I like the OS X flavor of Un*X.. I like BSD because it smokes when dealing with BIG stuff, and I like Mac because it isn't in any way Microsoft-dependent, including hardware designed for Windows and the M$ way of occupying a hard drive as if it was territory won in a dirty war. I just that I really can't see ordinary people making the transition. It isn't easy for the average user of computers to install Linux on a laptop, or to get it to completly take over a hard disk, or to keep it up to date. As frustrating as Windows is, it still beats reading a demand for a Unix command on a blue screen when you never heard of it before. The only solution as far as I can see is education of the user population in general. Geeks should be placing ads in the papers offering their services (for renumeration, of course) to install Linux on computers that people wish to change. Until Linux becomes "possible" for all, without having to jump through technical hoops, Microsoft will remail tops, whether we like it or not.
I would humbly recommend the second for those who would sue Microsoft for being so unjustly inflicted with an functional OS with which they were quite satisfied until some geek with a code jones convinced them that they should try the Holy Grail of benevolent freebies better known as Linux. While we're at it, we should sue our ancestors for having passed down flawed genetic code which causes cancer, and the grandmothers of the world for having written cholesterol-ridden recipes which cause heart attacks.
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I didn't say it was good. I said I like it. I agree with you about all the rediculous litigation caused by ambulance chashing barristers. All these "legalities" so stupidly expressed in legalise doubletalk, such as in the M$ Privacy Policy, carry within them their own annulation of meaningfulness, if not the seed of their own destruction. I find that amusing. I enjoy watching the injust destroy themselves a little at a time. It is my opinion that if you are looking for Justice, the "law" is the last place you'll find it.
A lawyer friend of mine believes their privacy policy, in a stretch (and lawyers are very good at stretching things), Microsoft who "owns" the commications of its users (hotmail etc), is therefore responsible for them and their content. Therefore they are leaving themselves open to lawsuits for content composed and transmitted by users.
Do you seriously believe that Universities who are involved in research projects, often under-funded would even consider using Windows 2k to handle humongous amounts of data? Do you believe they have the $$$ to pay a resident Linux Geek to to keep everything working and up to date? (Debian excluded because of apt-get)?
I agree. That would require being KNOWN, an anonymous Braveheart, if you will. Another solution would be to totally eliminate all identification thus making this a truly anonymous, non trackable, site where registration could or could not be required. True freedom does not necessarily have to be true anarchy, although it is quite tempting to make it so because of the anus-oriented, fascist govern(mental) pigs who believe everything must be controlled, including thought and the right to anonymity.
I've been using freeBSD as a desktop OS for years in spite of the fact that everyone thinks (realizes) I'm crazy. All the apps that I do not use make a very short list compared to all the kiddy-media-kindergarden apps that I've never used in the Windows booTpoop part of my HD, somewhere so far away that even my boot manager forgot where it is.
You'd have to go underground to stay on line. During such crises the military (all of them) will try to control all communication. This is one reason why governments are trying so hard to set "content standards"... not that they particularly care about morality or even legality, but rather to install an effective means of control of internet monitoring and imput.
No problem.... just buy a large quantity, open a start-up called khadai.com, and start taking orders for them. You'll become rich. You'll become the Khadai monopolist of the western World. And we'll finally get rid of all those Chineeeeese Wok-related programs on TV that explain how to cook slices serpent, monkey brains, and cats' feet, not to mention grubs, dog liver and anything else that the road-kill collection crew finds on the side of the highway. We'll begin to eat like we should: no creepy crawling meat with worms and mad cow virus..., no chicken penetentiary raised chicken. McDo wi9ll fall asunder. You will save the world!
I've never found clear instructions from Web Presence Providers concerning commands. They just assume that your born with a telnet application imbedded in your C-Cortex and a full set of Unix commands engraved on your eyelids.
I'd like to ask Doug (and/or Mr. Miller) why oh why is W2K much, much slower than Open or free BSD when juggling extremely large amounts of data. The experiment may be done with like if not the same equipment with the same data going through the same processing. Windows always comes up last.., and I mean way last.
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Try revolting with a pen instead of an AK47. And when the big THEY come to censor you, stick the pen in one of their all-seeing eyes. Yes dear macho gun tottin revolurevolutionary, you too can become one of the select few who simply drop out. When there's no-one left to participate in the madness, there will be no-one there to revolt against.... (I love prepositions at the end of sentences, a viable alternative to bullets at the end of lives)...
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... while trolling along cyberspace for a fellow victim, you deliberately violated the semantical integrity not only of the word "rational" but also the very sense of your own underdeveloped reasoning. Don't worry, in America there's a place for everyone. I'm sure if you keep trying, you'll find the courage to educate yourself. You should APOLOGIZE you know.
Me too, but I'm really going to miss those noodles and monkey brains, not to mention all that deep-fried dog with sweet sauce.
First of all, let me apologize for being a Canadian (a neighbo(u)r of the USA). Secondly, for butting in as a predjudiced "neutral" (Canadians, as you know, are neutral in everything, including sex, opinions, random thought processes, and neutrality itself. I humbly apologize for my American brothers who dared to use free air space and freedom itself to keep an eye on one of the most hypocritically fascist and opressively dangerous group of brainwashed and fearful people in the world.
You are evidently confusing "rationality" with "rationalization." In any case, Truth is one notch ABOVE logic. Some of the greatest tragedies of history were deliberately perpetrated in the name of what is or seems to be "rational" or logical. Many a "final solution" has been based on logic. Turning the other cheek is a applicable philosophy as is not spitting in the Buddha's face. That works as long as one doesn't turn that cheek to gunfire.
like the "Taliban religio fanatical assholeo culture..., like the communist culture of repression, emprisonment of dissidents, execution of political "enemies," etc. Not so long ago those who tried to enliven the ancient traditions were put in prison to be "reeducated" into forgetting the past. Let me get this straight; Katz, you seem to be saying that the the US should apologize to the bastards who rammed an American plane in international air space just for being in their way; that the US should apologize to them for having to feed and keep the American prisoners. Maybe the Tibetans should also apologize for placing their heads in the way of Chineese rifle butts and bleeing upon their agressors. Maybe several hundred students should apologize for being killed by and thus wasting precious bullets, only they can't because they're dead. As I wrote earlier; some cultures suck, only no-one dares to say that because it's not politically correct. In other words, "sometimes it is better to smash face than to save face." -Con(phew)scious
Thanks 2 U 2. I thought I was pretty smart because I've been using BSD for years (no double boot)., but with your post and the scandisk info, I feel I've learned more of the essential than I have by reading every labyrinthically confounding installation file on the web in "How To Land"...
I don't know how to thank you, even though I'm feeling kinda dumb right now. I have been so trained by M$ (like a little doggy) to click YES to something that seems as drastically important as fixing errors (such as not wanting to use Windows), I just did it automacially, like an idiot trying to solve a problem that didn't exist. Thank you again! This has brought to mind hundreds of similar errors on my part. Never again.... Yours truly (stupid), Glanz
The reason for there being fewer BSD posts in user groups is simple: there are fewer problems with BSD. No problem=no post. Therefore, following your line of "flying-by-your-balls" logic, Mandrake posts are higher au prorata to the number of its confused users. You don't hear any screaming fron the BSD side of Geekdon not because it's dead, but because it isn't in pain like any Linux distro not based on Debian. And as far as Red Hat goes. I'll leave that for the money makers and center-of-the-universe servers of porno sites and used car salesmen with web sites.
Good luck on the Peanut Installation. I couldn't stop it from deferring to Windows; I mean the double boot worked once or twice, then it bowed to windows as if the mbr were totally ignored; as if it were designed by Gates to discourage potential Linux users. Look, just do a "minimal" Debian installation. Go get it piece by piece from the Debian site. You'll be better off.
You've got the same tastes, I see. I too like watching people throw their boxes down the stairs. I once saw a ThinkPad hit the concrete after being tossed out of the fifth floor window of a lab at McGill University. It was a tragic site, and very amusing. Pathos was high. As far as educating people is concerned, I believe it's possible, especially now with Debian/GNU. Have you ever read the "Q" files on the M$ Tech Web site? That'a a labyrinth worthy of any game developer. The windows OS is quite simple really. It takes up only 50 MB of a hard disk, with all the patches and security updates, about 3 Gigs. But still, I've seen "minimalist" installations of Linux that run more quickly and efficiently than W2k. The only problem is Star Office that can't seem to get their Java trip right. So, who's gonna write the new newbie book? you or me? Frankly I don't know enough and I'm too BSD formed. Guess it'll have to be you. I'll buy a copy, so you're assured of one sale.
Windoze works for most, although as you have said, it is indeed frustrating. Personally I use FreeBSD at work and Debian on a double boot system, WinMe on the other side for the family. To be honest with you I've done more tweaking because of and with Linux than I had ever done on any Windows system. I haven't had one single problem with BSD in fifteen years. My personal solution, because I am lazy and don't particularly like Linux will be to buy a Mac Titanium Power Book with OS X pre-installed. I don't particularly care if I can watch the latest version of Star Wars on a DVD drive, or use MS Messenger , or keep up with the very expensive "final offers" of M$ Corp. concerning "NET." I don't wanna big ol' pickle, I just wanna ride. If I was strapped for gelt, I'd stick with Debian as the only OS because of apt-get. I may be weird, but I like the OS X flavor of Un*X.. I like BSD because it smokes when dealing with BIG stuff, and I like Mac because it isn't in any way Microsoft-dependent, including hardware designed for Windows and the M$ way of occupying a hard drive as if it was territory won in a dirty war. I just that I really can't see ordinary people making the transition. It isn't easy for the average user of computers to install Linux on a laptop, or to get it to completly take over a hard disk, or to keep it up to date. As frustrating as Windows is, it still beats reading a demand for a Unix command on a blue screen when you never heard of it before. The only solution as far as I can see is education of the user population in general. Geeks should be placing ads in the papers offering their services (for renumeration, of course) to install Linux on computers that people wish to change. Until Linux becomes "possible" for all, without having to jump through technical hoops, Microsoft will remail tops, whether we like it or not.
I would humbly recommend the second for those who would sue Microsoft for being so unjustly inflicted with an functional OS with which they were quite satisfied until some geek with a code jones convinced them that they should try the Holy Grail of benevolent freebies better known as Linux. While we're at it, we should sue our ancestors for having passed down flawed genetic code which causes cancer, and the grandmothers of the world for having written cholesterol-ridden recipes which cause heart attacks.
> I didn't say it was good. I said I like it. I agree with you about all the rediculous litigation caused by ambulance chashing barristers. All these "legalities" so stupidly expressed in legalise doubletalk, such as in the M$ Privacy Policy, carry within them their own annulation of meaningfulness, if not the seed of their own destruction. I find that amusing. I enjoy watching the injust destroy themselves a little at a time. It is my opinion that if you are looking for Justice, the "law" is the last place you'll find it.
I know what you mean; even the "user" has touble sometimes geting into his own Linux box. "Let me see, what was that "root" anyway?"
A lawyer friend of mine believes their privacy policy, in a stretch (and lawyers are very good at stretching things), Microsoft who "owns" the commications of its users (hotmail etc), is therefore responsible for them and their content. Therefore they are leaving themselves open to lawsuits for content composed and transmitted by users.
Do you seriously believe that Universities who are involved in research projects, often under-funded would even consider using Windows 2k to handle humongous amounts of data? Do you believe they have the $$$ to pay a resident Linux Geek to to keep everything working and up to date? (Debian excluded because of apt-get)?
I agree. That would require being KNOWN, an anonymous Braveheart, if you will. Another solution would be to totally eliminate all identification thus making this a truly anonymous, non trackable, site where registration could or could not be required. True freedom does not necessarily have to be true anarchy, although it is quite tempting to make it so because of the anus-oriented, fascist govern(mental) pigs who believe everything must be controlled, including thought and the right to anonymity.
I've been using freeBSD as a desktop OS for years in spite of the fact that everyone thinks (realizes) I'm crazy. All the apps that I do not use make a very short list compared to all the kiddy-media-kindergarden apps that I've never used in the Windows booTpoop part of my HD, somewhere so far away that even my boot manager forgot where it is.
My kinda folks..... no joke; they even train their kids and dogs using UniiiXXX commands.
You'd have to go underground to stay on line. During such crises the military (all of them) will try to control all communication. This is one reason why governments are trying so hard to set "content standards"... not that they particularly care about morality or even legality, but rather to install an effective means of control of internet monitoring and imput.
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No problem.... just buy a large quantity, open a start-up called khadai.com, and start taking orders for them. You'll become rich. You'll become the Khadai monopolist of the western World. And we'll finally get rid of all those Chineeeeese Wok-related programs on TV that explain how to cook slices serpent, monkey brains, and cats' feet, not to mention grubs, dog liver and anything else that the road-kill collection crew finds on the side of the highway. We'll begin to eat like we should: no creepy crawling meat with worms and mad cow virus..., no chicken penetentiary raised chicken. McDo wi9ll fall asunder. You will save the world!
I've never found clear instructions from Web Presence Providers concerning commands. They just assume that your born with a telnet application imbedded in your C-Cortex and a full set of Unix commands engraved on your eyelids.
I'd like to ask Doug (and/or Mr. Miller) why oh why is W2K much, much slower than Open or free BSD when juggling extremely large amounts of data. The experiment may be done with like if not the same equipment with the same data going through the same processing. Windows always comes up last.., and I mean way last.
Try revolting with a pen instead of an AK47. And when the big THEY come to censor you, stick the pen in one of their all-seeing eyes. Yes dear macho gun tottin revolurevolutionary, you too can become one of the select few who simply drop out. When there's no-one left to participate in the madness, there will be no-one there to revolt against.... (I love prepositions at the end of sentences, a viable alternative to bullets at the end of lives)...