Now imagine a framebuffer driver for that thing:)! tetris, mplayer,.. could all work. (there is a framebuffer testing device that writes to memomy, maybe it's not as difficult as it sounds to adapt that code..).
Back in the amiga era, a lot of freeware/shareware said explicitely that the software could not be used by the military. Can you add a similar clause to your own software and still distribute it under the GPL? I mean, then the software is only free for some to use, not everyone..
I had one too, near the end! I even had two floppy drives then, very luxurious; I started with an audio tape drive ("PRESS PLAY ON TAPE" still haunts me at night:) ).
Just as something is humor when it makes you laugh, something is art when it makes you stop and wonder. So art is, just like humor, quite personal, and it's not because you don't get it that it's a bad joke per se.
It's quite easy to grasp, really. "Microsoft is to give the U.S. government priority in fixing security holes in Windows and other software" is how the pointy-haired boss explains it, while your view of the situation is more Dilbert-like.
These multiple mars failures are all clearly the "new female Regime" results. Or perhaps we forgot to put any heaters on the explosive bolts preventing cruise stage separation causing the DS2 and lander to burn up in the atmosphere on the previous joke-of-a-mission.
Of course, all missions went perfect, and no Mars-lander was ever lost until that darn women-law. Seriously, more missions have been lost than there were successful missions. Now go find something else to blame women of!
Please have an honest debate and not knee jerk censoring. We are all adults here.
A bicycle light would consume about 2Watts (rude guess). A typical light bulb is 60 Watts. An electric heater is 2000 Watts typical. And I just went downstairs to check, a hairdryer is 1500 Watts (my mother is a hairdresser, so it's a "professional" version).
fta: I installed Linux on one of my systems the other day, so I could use it as a teaching vehicle for my class on system log analysis. But first I had to Email a bunch of my friends and ask them, "what version of Linux should I use? Red Hat? Debian? Gentoo? Mandrake? Slackware? Do you think I could get away with OpenBSD or FreeBSD?" The responses I got indicated that none of my friends use the same thing but that I could be sure that if I used Flavor X some adherent of Flavor Y was going to bust my chops about it, and that someone was sure to show up with flavor Z and have trouble making things work.
Here's an algorithm for trying out linux:
1) Pick a distribution ad random. 2) Try to install it 3) You like it? Yes -> done. 4) Pick another distribution. 5) Goto 2
As for holy wars between flavors, I've never been involved in them, you can find it everywhere (is BMW better than Mercedes? Is AMD better than Intel?) and I can say I've switched distro's many times without major trouble (slack -> redhat -> suse -> debian). No wonder, since the software is essentially the same.
But how about patches from other people? In the assumption that a company wants to license some GPL'ed software, they would have to contact all contributors, no?
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red - green - red: I mean it! Now turn back before I start using even more colors!
Nicely done!
:)! tetris, mplayer, .. could all work. (there is a framebuffer testing device that writes to memomy, maybe it's not as difficult as it sounds to adapt that code..).
Now imagine a framebuffer driver for that thing
linux/drivers/video/vfb.c -- Virtual frame buffer device
Back in the amiga era, a lot of freeware/shareware said explicitely that the software could not be used by the military. Can you add a similar clause to your own software and still distribute it under the GPL? I mean, then the software is only free for some to use, not everyone..
I had one too, near the end! I even had two floppy drives then, very luxurious; I started with an audio tape drive ("PRESS PLAY ON TAPE" still haunts me at night :) ).
> shockuser();
When I was young, we'd implement that by posting a goatse link.
My C=64 boots in 2 seconds. ;-)
It won't work until people start watching porn in PDF format.
Just as something is humor when it makes you laugh, something is art when it makes you stop and wonder. So art is, just like humor, quite personal, and it's not because you don't get it that it's a bad joke per se.
Wonder if there's anywhere it is legal to sell your politicans. Not that most of them would raise much money.
Plus, it's heavily taxed.. Darn politicians!
How comes that everyone trying to make a point has to include terrorist threat? Am I the only one who thinks it's a bit cheap?
That reminds me of a prank we pulled with some guy; we installed a swedish cook filter on his outgoing mail.. Bork Bork Bork!
If FOSS is the Right Thing
Actually, it's the Left Thing.
It's quite easy to grasp, really. "Microsoft is to give the U.S. government priority in fixing security holes in Windows and other software" is how the pointy-haired boss explains it, while your view of the situation is more Dilbert-like.
These multiple mars failures are all clearly the "new female Regime" results. Or perhaps we forgot to put any heaters on the explosive bolts preventing cruise stage separation causing the DS2 and lander to burn up in the atmosphere on the previous joke-of-a-mission.
Of course, all missions went perfect, and no Mars-lander was ever lost until that darn women-law.
Seriously, more missions have been lost than there were successful missions. Now go find something else to blame women of!
Please have an honest debate and not knee jerk censoring. We are all adults here.
I'm not very sure of that..
Don't panic, there will allways be vi, my friend..
A bicycle light would consume about 2Watts (rude guess).
A typical light bulb is 60 Watts.
An electric heater is 2000 Watts typical.
And I just went downstairs to check, a hairdryer is 1500 Watts (my mother is a hairdresser, so it's a "professional" version).
I think that after 20 years of neighbours, suicide rates should be sky high in Australia.. No wonder they want suicide to be illegal!
Hey, those holy people have to eat too, you know!
> One word: Polish! Thats what Linux needs.
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Here you go: http://www.linuxdig.com/howto/ldp/Polish-HOWTO.ph
fta: I installed Linux on one of my systems the other day, so I could use it as a teaching vehicle for my class on system log analysis. But first I had to Email a bunch of my friends and ask them, "what version of Linux should I use? Red Hat? Debian? Gentoo? Mandrake? Slackware? Do you think I could get away with OpenBSD or FreeBSD?" The responses I got indicated that none of my friends use the same thing but that I could be sure that if I used Flavor X some adherent of Flavor Y was going to bust my chops about it, and that someone was sure to show up with flavor Z and have trouble making things work.
Here's an algorithm for trying out linux:
1) Pick a distribution ad random.
2) Try to install it
3) You like it? Yes -> done.
4) Pick another distribution.
5) Goto 2
As for holy wars between flavors, I've never been involved in them, you can find it everywhere (is BMW better than Mercedes? Is AMD better than Intel?) and I can say I've switched distro's many times without major trouble (slack -> redhat -> suse -> debian). No wonder, since the software is essentially the same.
And if all those gadgets had some sort of standard power adaptor, I wouldn't be drowning in transfo's..
Cellphone: "You look like shit today, Dave".
Indeed, or 1 terranibble per 100 DVD's.
But how about patches from other people? In the assumption that a company wants to license some GPL'ed software, they would have to contact all contributors, no?
* Stickers improving your battery life!
* Random number generators predict "important" events!
* IPods prefer certain songs!
Just to name a few recent embarrassing stories. Slashdot has gone New Age, methinks.