Forget the laptop. Believe it or not you can survive two weeks without it.
Go see the 39 steps, see Dylan Moran, go to the mermaids tail in Leicester square and have a deep fried mars bar. Go to some pubs and try bitter, you won't like it but try it anyway.
Stay away from the soho clip joints. If a hot girl asks you to come in to see a show just smile politely and keep walking.
Go for the tourist bus ride and the London eye as well.
Skip the London eye and buy some dinner instead...it's pretty anti-climactic. If you're really curious, look it up on google image search.
Not sure if anybody has mentioned this, but London is insanely expensive. Imagine New York pricing on everything, except multiply that by the current exchange rate ( 1gpb = 1.65), plus add in some VAT. Basically, if you run in an off license (british for kwikie mart it would seem) for a bottle of water, it will be about $4 for something non trendy. Also, don't expect your credit/debit card to work anywhere, all the cards over there have chips and vendors either don't want to use the mag stripe or don't even know that it is possible. Fortunately though, most ATMs will work (and your bank will probably charge you $3 each time you use one).
I bet you can configure gentoo to do this on top of another distro. I used to have a gentoo tree built in my OS X home directory.
Yes, it would be similar to what is described in the chroot section of gentoo's quick install guide, but without needing to setup the kernel, grub, filesystems, etc. Basically: create a ~/gentoo directory, install a gentoo stage 3 tarball, chroot into ~/gentoo, emerge stuff. This would require root privileges though, and it doesn't sound like the grandparent has those.
You can make emerge to install stuff anywhere, don't forget to add yourself to the portage group.
Too bad this isn't Gentoo and I don't have root on it.
In that case, ask your systems administrator?
It sounds like you want to setup a chroot sandbox in your home directory since you'll be pulling in all kinds of dependencies to install $foo. I don't think you really want to do what you think you do.
Is he? From what (little) I saw of the mailing list thread, his first instinct was to turn it off. That didn't really sound like a cry of support. I hope this doesn't end up in RHEL.
sudo uses whichever password you set it up to use...or no password at all if that's how you roll. Some distros have it use the root password as default, and others use the user's password.
I didn't realize it was so easy to own a webservice company. Shouldn't she either know these things herself or have people on staff that know these things?
How many CPUs are in the latest botnet? Their Elcomsoft license was limited to 100 hosts. If they had 500,000, then it would take......about 20 seconds for their 8 character mixed up password?
Better analogy would be: Someone sells lockpicks online that will only work with their own car. Instead of using OnStar to unlock their car when they inevitably lock their keys in their car (for a fee, of course) they unstrap the lockpick kit from the bottom of their car and open the door. Of course this violates the DMCA because the lock required an RFID chip to operate normally, but since you circumvented it, you're now on the hook for DMCA violations.
That's a bad analogy.
It's more like you buy a bottle of beer at a bar, and the bartender wants to charge you extra to pop the cap off. Instead of paying his bottle opening fee, you smash the bottle over his head and drink straight from the keg tap as he's unconscious, then start serving other patrons free beer.
I stopped using open office when it started to try competing with every useless feature that is in MS Office. The exact point was when oowriter was suddenly trying to think for me and automatically correcting spelling, capitalization, grammar, and formatting. I went back to using AbiWord instead and wondered why I ever stopped. It does everything you will need to do and is still not even 10MB.
There's a similar relationship between UCF and Valencia in Orlando. UCF is either 4th or 5th as far as large schools go, and a lot of students take courses at Valencia (or Seminole) Community College. UCF was probably half the size it is now when I went there, but I still took my Physics pre-reqs at Valencia. It was only $10 or $20 cheaper per credit hour, but the class size (and professor) was much better. The material was exactly the same, the textbook was the same one that they used at UF. The main difference was the professor at the community college was there because he wanted to teach and not because he wanted university tenure and the government grant du jour.
Probably the first guy since you know what you're getting with him. It's much easier to "fix up an old wreck" than go the cc route, get certs, work at a shop and do a good job....emphasis on the latter. I could go to the junkyard and fix up an old wreck, but that doesn't mean I have any business working all day at a shop on customer cars. Just because somebody likes to fix up old wrecks in their spare time doesn't mean they do it properly the first time...that kind of thing is very important in a shop. The car analogy doesn't really work well here since software/computers are always changing. Cars don't change nearly as quick.
News Flash: 10,000 Slashdot accounts compromised in phishing scam. Most common passwords were 31415 and 0xdecafbad.
Affected users have been placed on an isolated network where they can't do anything but post whinges about Microsoft and Apple to a web server that runs SSL using a self-signed certificate and actually follows the RFCs.
The slashdot crowd is supposed to be very US centric though...we would never "whinge" about anything.
I know I'm preaching to the church but a good way to make a password is to make up a sentence and take each first letter, convert some to capitals and numbers and you will never ever forget it.
It is like a walk in the park.
iilawitp
iiLawitp
iiL4wi7p
voila!
...or you could just use "It is like a walk in the park." and have something that couldn't be bruteforced in a few hours.
I'll second the vote for tenshi.
Dead simple to use and very customizable and effective.
Logwatch is also pretty good from an "install it and forget it" angle.
"The most ridiculous interview I heard with my own ears:
Interviewer: "What did you have this morning as breakfast?"
Applicant: "Bread." I: "Nothing else?"
Applicant: "No."
Interviewer: "According to American law, we cannot grant you a visa."
Applicant: "....".
I was sitting beside the person when he was rejected. You know, it is funny to reject someone according American law just because he only had bread in the morning."
Switzerland isn't in the Schengen zone though. I went through the swiss "border control" coming from France and it was basically a couple of border officers grabbing every few people out of the crowd rushing by and checking their passport. On the train from Switzerland -> Germany, somebody came through and checked our passports, but no stamps or anything. Driving between Belgium and Germany, I couldn't even find where the border was since the area on the Border is germany speaking anyways. The other Schengen areas are the same...it's just like going from one state to another except the language on the signs change.
So you're proposing that somebody sit on airplane for 8 - 10 hours to meet up with you in order to not so much do something interesting, but drive along the interstate and look at grass plains and cows? I'm pretty sure they can do that in France and save a lot of money. The interstate corridors are probably the parts of the country I *wouldn't* want to show off. "Look at how desolate our country is...hey there's another Wal-Mart, lets stop in for some souvenirs and get lunch at the McDonald's inside!"
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Forget the laptop. Believe it or not you can survive two weeks without it.
Go see the 39 steps, see Dylan Moran, go to the mermaids tail in Leicester square and have a deep fried mars bar. Go to some pubs and try bitter, you won't like it but try it anyway.
Stay away from the soho clip joints. If a hot girl asks you to come in to see a show just smile politely and keep walking.
Go for the tourist bus ride and the London eye as well.
Skip the London eye and buy some dinner instead...it's pretty anti-climactic. If you're really curious, look it up on google image search.
Not sure if anybody has mentioned this, but London is insanely expensive. Imagine New York pricing on everything, except multiply that by the current exchange rate ( 1gpb = 1.65), plus add in some VAT. Basically, if you run in an off license (british for kwikie mart it would seem) for a bottle of water, it will be about $4 for something non trendy. Also, don't expect your credit/debit card to work anywhere, all the cards over there have chips and vendors either don't want to use the mag stripe or don't even know that it is possible. Fortunately though, most ATMs will work (and your bank will probably charge you $3 each time you use one).
That is the only thing they use them for... Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, Know what I mean?
The ps3s are really going to be used to have sex with a lady? How may I use them to this ends?
...do you have a newsletter?
I bet you can configure gentoo to do this on top of another distro. I used to have a gentoo tree built in my OS X home directory.
Yes, it would be similar to what is described in the chroot section of gentoo's quick install guide, but without needing to setup the kernel, grub, filesystems, etc. Basically: create a ~/gentoo directory, install a gentoo stage 3 tarball, chroot into ~/gentoo, emerge stuff. This would require root privileges though, and it doesn't sound like the grandparent has those.
Damn...I wonder how long I've been posting in Extrans mode like that.
You can make emerge to install stuff anywhere, don't forget to add yourself to the portage group.
Too bad this isn't Gentoo and I don't have root on it.
In that case, ask your systems administrator?
It sounds like you want to setup a chroot sandbox in your home directory since you'll be pulling in all kinds of dependencies to install $foo. I don't think you really want to do what you think you do.
Is he? From what (little) I saw of the mailing list thread, his first instinct was to turn it off. That didn't really sound like a cry of support. I hope this doesn't end up in RHEL.
sudo uses whichever password you set it up to use...or no password at all if that's how you roll. Some distros have it use the root password as default, and others use the user's password.
I didn't realize it was so easy to own a webservice company. Shouldn't she either know these things herself or have people on staff that know these things?
So when I use gnome and think or exclaim aloud "who's retarded idea was *that*?", it is usually Havoc's retarded idea?
How many CPUs are in the latest botnet? Their Elcomsoft license was limited to 100 hosts. If they had 500,000, then it would take......about 20 seconds for their 8 character mixed up password?
Bad analogy.
Better analogy would be: Someone sells lockpicks online that will only work with their own car. Instead of using OnStar to unlock their car when they inevitably lock their keys in their car (for a fee, of course) they unstrap the lockpick kit from the bottom of their car and open the door. Of course this violates the DMCA because the lock required an RFID chip to operate normally, but since you circumvented it, you're now on the hook for DMCA violations.
That's a bad analogy.
It's more like you buy a bottle of beer at a bar, and the bartender wants to charge you extra to pop the cap off. Instead of paying his bottle opening fee, you smash the bottle over his head and drink straight from the keg tap as he's unconscious, then start serving other patrons free beer.
I stopped using open office when it started to try competing with every useless feature that is in MS Office. The exact point was when oowriter was suddenly trying to think for me and automatically correcting spelling, capitalization, grammar, and formatting. I went back to using AbiWord instead and wondered why I ever stopped. It does everything you will need to do and is still not even 10MB.
There's a similar relationship between UCF and Valencia in Orlando. UCF is either 4th or 5th as far as large schools go, and a lot of students take courses at Valencia (or Seminole) Community College. UCF was probably half the size it is now when I went there, but I still took my Physics pre-reqs at Valencia. It was only $10 or $20 cheaper per credit hour, but the class size (and professor) was much better. The material was exactly the same, the textbook was the same one that they used at UF. The main difference was the professor at the community college was there because he wanted to teach and not because he wanted university tenure and the government grant du jour.
Probably the first guy since you know what you're getting with him. It's much easier to "fix up an old wreck" than go the cc route, get certs, work at a shop and do a good job....emphasis on the latter. I could go to the junkyard and fix up an old wreck, but that doesn't mean I have any business working all day at a shop on customer cars. Just because somebody likes to fix up old wrecks in their spare time doesn't mean they do it properly the first time...that kind of thing is very important in a shop. The car analogy doesn't really work well here since software/computers are always changing. Cars don't change nearly as quick.
Where are "sex", "secret", and "god"? Even love only makes a cameo at #17 in "iloveyou"
News Flash: 10,000 Slashdot accounts compromised in phishing scam. Most common passwords were 31415 and 0xdecafbad.
Affected users have been placed on an isolated network where they can't do anything but post whinges about Microsoft and Apple to a web server that runs SSL using a self-signed certificate and actually follows the RFCs.
The slashdot crowd is supposed to be very US centric though...we would never "whinge" about anything.
I know I'm preaching to the church but a good way to make a password is to make up a sentence and take each first letter, convert some to capitals and numbers and you will never ever forget it.
It is like a walk in the park. iilawitp iiLawitp iiL4wi7p voila!
...or you could just use "It is like a walk in the park." and have something that couldn't be bruteforced in a few hours.
And now... #1 The Larch.
Laaarrrrrrch Nice woody sound to it.
chmod 0 `find /`
This is why you don't let people use root. At least with sudo you'll know who the asshat is.
I'll second the vote for tenshi. Dead simple to use and very customizable and effective. Logwatch is also pretty good from an "install it and forget it" angle.
He can also take all your stuff just because he wants to.
"The most ridiculous interview I heard with my own ears: Interviewer: "What did you have this morning as breakfast?" Applicant: "Bread." I: "Nothing else?" Applicant: "No." Interviewer: "According to American law, we cannot grant you a visa." Applicant: "....". I was sitting beside the person when he was rejected. You know, it is funny to reject someone according American law just because he only had bread in the morning."
From http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20060519_getting_us_visa_in_china.htm
The correct answer is of course "ham, sausage, a side of bacon, and a bloody mary to wash it all down"
Switzerland isn't in the Schengen zone though. I went through the swiss "border control" coming from France and it was basically a couple of border officers grabbing every few people out of the crowd rushing by and checking their passport. On the train from Switzerland -> Germany, somebody came through and checked our passports, but no stamps or anything. Driving between Belgium and Germany, I couldn't even find where the border was since the area on the Border is germany speaking anyways. The other Schengen areas are the same...it's just like going from one state to another except the language on the signs change.
So you're proposing that somebody sit on airplane for 8 - 10 hours to meet up with you in order to not so much do something interesting, but drive along the interstate and look at grass plains and cows? I'm pretty sure they can do that in France and save a lot of money. The interstate corridors are probably the parts of the country I *wouldn't* want to show off. "Look at how desolate our country is...hey there's another Wal-Mart, lets stop in for some souvenirs and get lunch at the McDonald's inside!"