Imagine a visionary like Steve Jobs (by the way, enjoy your leave of absence and please come back). He goes to his team and says "I don't care what it takes, build me a computer which boots in one second".
Yet, most BIOSes available for x86 chipsets were built for the desktop market, and thus have not been optimized in this area, according to Steve Jones, General Software CTO.
When Steve Jobs is not around, leave it to Steve Jones!
With acrobat reader it is not possible to select/copy a paragraph in 2 column format document, but with kpdf one can easily do that.
You can do that with Acrobat Reader. You just need to change the Text Select Tool to the Column Select Tool on the toolbar. It's that button that looks like a "T"; click the little arrow to get the Column Select Tool.
It's a little hard to find it though.. despite having used Acrobat Reader for years, I've only found that button about a year ago. I guess it's a UI design problem.
This might surprise you, but I agree with you. Not on the part about what happens after death, but on enjoying life.
I'm sorry that you don't like me quoting the Bible, but I would just like to point out what it says about enjoying life: "Go, eat your bread in joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart" (Ecclesiastes 9:7) and "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he [God] has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 9:9).
Yes, I agree with you. Go and enjoy those few years that we have here on earth. Do things that have an impact on others and spend time with your loved ones. Enjoy this wonderful world that we live in.
But what is fundamentally important (in my point of view) is whether we're prepared to face God after this life on earth. Time on earth is just a flash of a second. Time after earth is eternity.
If you're right, that the neurons just stop firing, then there's nothing to lose for both of us.
However, if the Bible is right, then it would be wise for the both of us to carefully consider how and where to spend eternity.
What I've learned: We will only learn about what really matters in life at the end of our lives.
When we are on our deathbed, and about to breathe our last, will we say, "Could I have a look at my degree certificates one last time?" or "Could I look at my billion-dollar bank account statement one last time?" All that does not matter anymore in the end. We took nothing into this world, and we can take nothing out.
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return." - Job 1:21
It is only then that we will realize how we should have spent more time with the ones we love, and more time on things that really matter.
More than that, it is only then that we realize that we should have made peace with God and accepted His gracious Gift - His only Son Jesus Christ.
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time." - 1 Timothy 2:5-6
That is what I've learned, and I'm thankful to God everyday for it.
Thanks! I'll give it a spin sometime. I'm very used to the BSD ports... the idea of being able to use it for Linux really intrigues me.:-) Thanks for the note on mixing interpreters.
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Imagine a visionary like Steve Jobs (by the way, enjoy your leave of absence and please come back). He goes to his team and says "I don't care what it takes, build me a computer which boots in one second".
From http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5429881813.html:
Yet, most BIOSes available for x86 chipsets were built for the desktop market, and thus have not been optimized in this area, according to Steve Jones, General Software CTO.
When Steve Jobs is not around, leave it to Steve Jones!
While we're on the topic of keyboards, does anyone have experience with the Lenovo/IBM ThinkPlus USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav?
Does it work with Linux and BSD systems?
Is there an equivalent for doing this on Linux? It's really slow too.
I used to run KDE on Slackware. But now it's Xfce all the way, since my laptop is showing signs of aging.
Rojak is a type of salad eaten in Malaysia and Singapore. The term "rojak" is also casually used in those countries to mean "a mixture of everything."
The term Rojak Pot, I assume, is meant to portray that this website talks about a wide range of topics.
With acrobat reader it is not possible to select/copy a paragraph in 2 column format document, but with kpdf one can easily do that.
You can do that with Acrobat Reader. You just need to change the Text Select Tool to the Column Select Tool on the toolbar. It's that button that looks like a "T"; click the little arrow to get the Column Select Tool.
It's a little hard to find it though.. despite having used Acrobat Reader for years, I've only found that button about a year ago. I guess it's a UI design problem.
I noticed one of the screenshots featuring Crossover Office on NetBSD. Is that supported in NetBSD 2.x now?
Last I checked, http://www.duh.org/cxoffice/ showed that it's still a big hack to get it working but that page has not been updated since 2003.
This might surprise you, but I agree with you. Not on the part about what happens after death, but on enjoying life.
I'm sorry that you don't like me quoting the Bible, but I would just like to point out what it says about enjoying life: "Go, eat your bread in joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart" (Ecclesiastes 9:7) and "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he [God] has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 9:9).
Yes, I agree with you. Go and enjoy those few years that we have here on earth. Do things that have an impact on others and spend time with your loved ones. Enjoy this wonderful world that we live in.
But what is fundamentally important (in my point of view) is whether we're prepared to face God after this life on earth. Time on earth is just a flash of a second. Time after earth is eternity.
If you're right, that the neurons just stop firing, then there's nothing to lose for both of us.
However, if the Bible is right, then it would be wise for the both of us to carefully consider how and where to spend eternity.
What I've learned: We will only learn about what really matters in life at the end of our lives.
When we are on our deathbed, and about to breathe our last, will we say, "Could I have a look at my degree certificates one last time?" or "Could I look at my billion-dollar bank account statement one last time?" All that does not matter anymore in the end. We took nothing into this world, and we can take nothing out.
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return." - Job 1:21
It is only then that we will realize how we should have spent more time with the ones we love, and more time on things that really matter.
More than that, it is only then that we realize that we should have made peace with God and accepted His gracious Gift - His only Son Jesus Christ.
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time." - 1 Timothy 2:5-6
That is what I've learned, and I'm thankful to God everyday for it.
Actually, they did, so I guess he's real. :-)
Thanks! I'll give it a spin sometime. I'm very used to the BSD ports... the idea of being able to use it for Linux really intrigues me. :-) Thanks for the note on mixing interpreters.
Was it easy to bootstrap pkgsrc with Slack? Also, can Slack packages and pkgsrc packages co-exist? Just curious.. ;-)
Any word on Slackware 10's support for LVM2 under kernel 2.6.x? It wasn't working properly in prior versions.
I'm surprised his Windows PC stayed online long enough for him to make a safe CD in the first place. :-)
to bash.org!
That's a very irresponsible reply. You should've mentioned "SPOILER ALERT!"
Hey buddy, dumb it down a little for the guys that just read manuals and code all day long.
:)
To understand the post, RTFM.
I'll happily pay $30 rather than be bored for 9 hours.
Hey, the $699 is for the SCO license. There's no more dough to pay the game developers.
Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors
;-)
I guess that's seven years of bad luck for Knoppix...
Glade wok. Next they'd better leelease DlagonflyBSD.
...till Lindows trys to release LetBSD?
...till Lindows tlies to leelease LetBSD?
Do you mean:
I did post this at the top, but I guess no one saw it.
Patrick Volkerding's notes on building the Linux kernel for Slackware says:See the URL for Patrick's procedures on how he builds the kernel.
Well, yes and no.
Patrick Volkerding's notes on building the Linux kernel for Slackware says:See the URL for Patrick's procedures on how he builds the kernel.
Win2K source code will never get into Linux, since it won't pass Marcelo/Andy/Linus's quality assurance standards!