Originally it was "desalinization", but the news anchors couldn't wrap their mouths around yet another multisyllabic word, so it was shortened to something they could pronounce.
A special thanks to the same semi-illiterates who brought you "nuculear" and "jewlery".
I only maintain two post offices. I have one that I don't care about that I give out to people who run MS Outlook/Express, since I know that their address books are going to get heisted on a fairly routine basis. Then I have another one that I give out to fellow Linux users. The former is constantly full of get-rich-quick penis-pill mortgage contest car job ads, while the latter remains virtually empty except for the occasional message conveying worthwhile information from people I care about. I'm almost convinced that I need to get an additional spam address as the original is starting to overflow regularly between my weekly janitorial reads.
Must remember to check and see if I've won that 53-inch HDTV yet. I wonder if I can take it with me on my 1st-prize Mediterranean cruise....
[...] when it was time to ship the "Linux Version" they just boxed up the Windows binaries along with a single-purpose version of WINE (some people started calling these "Winelets"). Needless to say, the entire Linux community scoffed this in unison.
I can remember having had three or four of those damned "winelets" at once, back in my Caldera days. I had the fullblown WineHQ version to run Austin Meyer's X-Plane, I had Corel's wine to run WordPerfect, I had another copy that came with Railroad Tycoon (?) or some other OpenGL game package, and I had one more copy that came included in the beta trial of Adobe FrameMaker. Keeping all of these from stumbling all over each other was an impossible task.
I no longer run anything under wine. I use Microsoft to boot games, and I've dumped everything else.
The indigent healthcare plan in my state spends more money per client than mine and my employer's combined contribution to my company's HMO plan. It would not surprise me to find that it costs more to keep the homeless on the street than it would to put a roof over their head.
Somebody once told me that there's a good political reason to keep a certain small percentage of the population unemployed and homeless. But I didn't pay any attention to what he said after that; he was a Bush supporter so I knew I wouldn't understand it anyway.
"As U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson prepares to introduce a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission to censure the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) government for increasing 'repression of its people using the Internet, democratic dialogue, religious expression,' the regime continues to block discourse."
Three words immediately spring to mind - pot, kettle, black. Mr. Williamson needs to spend more time in the U.S. this year.
HIPPA = Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act, [....]
Wrong. It's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, aka HIPAA. While there is a privacy component to this regulation, it does not appear in the title.
I waited and waited for so long for TechTV to improve enough so that I would watch it again. So now it's gotten good enough again that it's finally back on my lineup, and some mega-conglomerate is going to start screwing around with it? Time to vote it down on the Tivo, and start waiting all over again I guess....
The Hubble telescope continues to make headlines after more than a dozen years. Only last week on the news I saw photos of the deepest (and consequently earliest) space pictures ever taken, and they came from Hubble. Dropping this incredible resource into the ocean because of a relatively small budgetary shortfall is a horrendous waste of taxpayer money.
Chances are, if we crash it, we'll never get another. I'm getting old, I want to see some of those ancient mysteries of space solved in my lifetime.
[...] one move like that and treaties with Pakistan or not, the US will be hell bent to exterminate Al Qeada.
So.... will we invade Iraq again? Or will we bomb the shit out of some other innocent nation that refuses to toe Bush's lines in the sand? Heaven forbid the U.S.ofA. should go after the perpetrators this next time.
Not sure but maybe my SuSE Version 9 distro is diffrent from everyone elses.
Nope, mine works the same way as yours. Heck, I even mix adding packages on my SuSE box with "kpackage" and "rpm" as well as with YaST. Somehow, it all just works together. Remember that cartoon showing a huge flowchart on a blackboard where the middle box was labeled "magic happens"?
I'm running YaST Online Update (YOU) in the background even as I type this, downloading a new Athlon kernel and associated security patches. YaST is not your run-of-the-mill useless sysadmin megascript; it's forty or fifty inter-related packages that address every important aspect of managing a Linux system. Microsoft doesn't have anything close to it. I don't know of any reason why you couldn't use it on any RPM-based distro, but I have to admit I've been using it solely on desktops, and not in a server environment. It's the newb's answer to keeping a healthy up-to-date patched Linux box on the Internet that won't be a detriment to it's neighbors or an embarassment to the Linux community.
"Good morning, boss (you clueless moron). What (boring and useless) work have we (pitiful understaffed few) got on the agenda for today (and the rest or our meaningless lives)?"
"I'm not feeling well (I need a beer to numb my brain after working for you all day). Can I go home (pub crawling) early?"
I just found this very interesting help-wanted ad on Monster.com. You can read all of it here.
Job Description: SCO Unix Contractor
Qualified candidate will need to recover root passwords and change them, plus store securely for future use if need be.
Candidate needs to be able to understand file structure & applications running on machine(s) & determine if it is possible for the contractor to support the systems until June of this year.
I wonder what the story is behind this one... it looks like SCO is about to be thrown off of a site.
I just found this help-wanted ad on Monster.com. My keyboard is now full of coffee! Find it here.
Job Description: SCO Unix Contractor
Qualified candidate will need to recover root passwords and change them, plus store securely for future use if need be.
Candidate needs to be able to understand file structure & applications running on machine(s) & determine if it is possible for the contractor to support the systems until June of this year.
Ohhh, my side hurts from laughing so hard! I wonder what the story is behind this one....
I'm talking about voters, not bureaucrats, and I think that was pretty obvious, no?
The original argument was someone was unaware of "anybody suffering any repercussions from their party affiliation". There may be something assumed in that statement that was obvious to most other people, but it wasn't obvious to me.
I've yet to hear of anyone suffering any repercussions from their party affiliation. Party registration is *not* meaningless: most people vote for the candidate that is in their party.
You've obviously never worked directly for an elected official. I have, three different times. And every election where there was a party upset, I lost my job. Registering Independant is not an option; you wouldn't get the appointment in the first place.
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Originally it was "desalinization", but the news anchors couldn't wrap their mouths around yet another multisyllabic word, so it was shortened to something they could pronounce.
A special thanks to the same semi-illiterates who brought you "nuculear" and "jewlery".
You, sir, are my new hero! No need to read between the lines in your posts, no sirree!
BTW... Are you as weary as I am of telling people "I told you so"?
I only maintain two post offices. I have one that I don't care about that I give out to people who run MS Outlook/Express, since I know that their address books are going to get heisted on a fairly routine basis. Then I have another one that I give out to fellow Linux users. The former is constantly full of get-rich-quick penis-pill mortgage contest car job ads, while the latter remains virtually empty except for the occasional message conveying worthwhile information from people I care about. I'm almost convinced that I need to get an additional spam address as the original is starting to overflow regularly between my weekly janitorial reads.
Must remember to check and see if I've won that 53-inch HDTV yet. I wonder if I can take it with me on my 1st-prize Mediterranean cruise....
And the cracks you do see will look a lot more alluring and seductive.
You left out the multiple choice detractor.
Slashnauts = CowboyNeal
[...] when it was time to ship the "Linux Version" they just boxed up the Windows binaries along with a single-purpose version of WINE (some people started calling these "Winelets"). Needless to say, the entire Linux community scoffed this in unison.
I can remember having had three or four of those damned "winelets" at once, back in my Caldera days. I had the fullblown WineHQ version to run Austin Meyer's X-Plane, I had Corel's wine to run WordPerfect, I had another copy that came with Railroad Tycoon (?) or some other OpenGL game package, and I had one more copy that came included in the beta trial of Adobe FrameMaker. Keeping all of these from stumbling all over each other was an impossible task.
I no longer run anything under wine. I use Microsoft to boot games, and I've dumped everything else.
And all this time I thought Microsoft was the Cathedral and Linux was the bazaar. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
The indigent healthcare plan in my state spends more money per client than mine and my employer's combined contribution to my company's HMO plan. It would not surprise me to find that it costs more to keep the homeless on the street than it would to put a roof over their head.
Somebody once told me that there's a good political reason to keep a certain small percentage of the population unemployed and homeless. But I didn't pay any attention to what he said after that; he was a Bush supporter so I knew I wouldn't understand it anyway.
Damned right. Real men call their machines "Vaxen".
"As U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson prepares to introduce a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission to censure the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) government for increasing 'repression of its people using the Internet, democratic dialogue, religious expression,' the regime continues to block discourse."
Three words immediately spring to mind - pot, kettle, black. Mr. Williamson needs to spend more time in the U.S. this year.
HIPPA = Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act, [....]
Wrong. It's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, aka HIPAA. While there is a privacy component to this regulation, it does not appear in the title.
I wish this comment hadn't already capped out because I would've loved to give it some positive points myself.
I may register to vote this year. People everywhere are needed to fight for this country again, just not in Bush's oilfields.
Maybe we sould take up a PayPal collection and buy him a subscription to Slashdot?
I waited and waited for so long for TechTV to improve enough so that I would watch it again. So now it's gotten good enough again that it's finally back on my lineup, and some mega-conglomerate is going to start screwing around with it? Time to vote it down on the Tivo, and start waiting all over again I guess....
HD: Do you see a K or a foot in the lower left?
User: Dude, it's neither! it's like a green fish face or something!
The Hubble telescope continues to make headlines after more than a dozen years. Only last week on the news I saw photos of the deepest (and consequently earliest) space pictures ever taken, and they came from Hubble. Dropping this incredible resource into the ocean because of a relatively small budgetary shortfall is a horrendous waste of taxpayer money.
Chances are, if we crash it, we'll never get another. I'm getting old, I want to see some of those ancient mysteries of space solved in my lifetime.
[...] one move like that and treaties with Pakistan or not, the US will be hell bent to exterminate Al Qeada.
So.... will we invade Iraq again? Or will we bomb the shit out of some other innocent nation that refuses to toe Bush's lines in the sand? Heaven forbid the U.S.ofA. should go after the perpetrators this next time.
Not sure but maybe my SuSE Version 9 distro is diffrent from everyone elses.
Nope, mine works the same way as yours. Heck, I even mix adding packages on my SuSE box with "kpackage" and "rpm" as well as with YaST. Somehow, it all just works together. Remember that cartoon showing a huge flowchart on a blackboard where the middle box was labeled "magic happens"?
I'm running YaST Online Update (YOU) in the background even as I type this, downloading a new Athlon kernel and associated security patches. YaST is not your run-of-the-mill useless sysadmin megascript; it's forty or fifty inter-related packages that address every important aspect of managing a Linux system. Microsoft doesn't have anything close to it. I don't know of any reason why you couldn't use it on any RPM-based distro, but I have to admit I've been using it solely on desktops, and not in a server environment. It's the newb's answer to keeping a healthy up-to-date patched Linux box on the Internet that won't be a detriment to it's neighbors or an embarassment to the Linux community.
"Good morning, boss (you clueless moron). What (boring and useless) work have we (pitiful understaffed few) got on the agenda for today (and the rest or our meaningless lives)?"
"I'm not feeling well (I need a beer to numb my brain after working for you all day). Can I go home (pub crawling) early?"
I just found this very interesting help-wanted ad on Monster.com. You can read all of it here.
Job Description: SCO Unix Contractor
Qualified candidate will need to recover root passwords and change them, plus store securely for future use if need be.
Candidate needs to be able to understand file structure & applications running on machine(s) & determine if it is possible for the contractor to support the systems until June of this year.
I wonder what the story is behind this one... it looks like SCO is about to be thrown off of a site.
I just found this help-wanted ad on Monster.com. My keyboard is now full of coffee! Find it here.
Job Description: SCO Unix Contractor
Qualified candidate will need to recover root passwords and change them, plus store securely for future use if need be.
Candidate needs to be able to understand file structure & applications running on machine(s) & determine if it is possible for the contractor to support the systems until June of this year.
Ohhh, my side hurts from laughing so hard! I wonder what the story is behind this one....
I'm talking about voters, not bureaucrats, and I think that was pretty obvious, no?
The original argument was someone was unaware of "anybody suffering any repercussions from their party affiliation". There may be something assumed in that statement that was obvious to most other people, but it wasn't obvious to me.
Oh, except that it's obviously false. [grin]
I've yet to hear of anyone suffering any repercussions from their party affiliation. Party registration is *not* meaningless: most people vote for the candidate that is in their party.
You've obviously never worked directly for an elected official. I have, three different times. And every election where there was a party upset, I lost my job. Registering Independant is not an option; you wouldn't get the appointment in the first place.
Mad spelling skills? or just a typo?