Heh, I've had a share of accidents on my bike:) Talking about wall electrical outlets, I remember me and a friend dropped a table on one, and the cover broke off. So real cautiously my friend goes and tries and puts the cover back on, shorting it and causing the brightest flash I've seen and causing our hearts to stop for several minutes i'm sure;)
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Heh. I won my ipaq, and it costs more than my gf's laptop. But I can't quite justify spending £90 on it yet - I'll have a hunt on ebay tho, although I distrust ebay.
Can you remember anything about some distro copyrighting the background images, or icons or something to make it so you can't just do a raw copy of the distro? Otherwise I'm going crazy:)
Heh, I loved cycling down hill too, but never at that speed. I got scared when you are going so fast the whole bike is shaking and rattling.. of course I had a bike without fancy suspension so that wasn't particulary fast:) (I'm not implying that you did have fancy suspension)
I wonder if americans dislike it more than europeans. One reason for suggesting this is that americans are very into big 'image' cars compared to european small and fuel-efficent cars. Perhaps because of this, image is a lot more important to americans.
I live in Manchester, UK, and wouldn't mind one of these for getting to uni. Buses cost me too much and are way too annoying. (The journey is only 20 mins, but the busses can wait another 20 mins just waiting for ppl). I cycled it for 2 years, but it is too damn cold and wet in the winter.. although that probably means too cold for segway too.
I'm saving up to get a keyboard for my palm (why are they so expensive??). Then at last I can code and document on it. (vi for coding, not sure yet for documenting - probably vi also since I don't need formatting, or if I do, I can live with docbook, latex, or something:)
Ah. I had a really quick look at redhat.com looking for more info on that redhat include copyrighted images, but I can't seem to find anything, so I revoke that statement.
Heh. My brother has come to live with me for a while, and with no knowledge of computers. He picked up linux really easily, and can use the command line pretty good. He went for a job interview, and they asked him if he could use windows. He said no, but he could use linux - the employer was like "what's that?"
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Sure, but the type of person who could become a really windows admin is mostly likely the kind of person who would prefer to use linux anyway. Just an opinion - can't back it up.
Redhat is bad example since iirc they have copyrighted images in their distro. That's why iirc that on say cheapbytes they don't sell copies of redhat, just "thread" which have been modified very slightly (I suspect).
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Well.. if you owned your own car and done 200mph on your own road, then that is fine.
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Heh. When I was a lot younger (and I'm only 21 now) I studied for the MCSE exam. One question will always stick in my memory is one where it asks for the various options to the setup program on the windows 98 cd. I knew them because I'd installed win98 soooo many times from the command line to get round and fix their stupid installer. I also remember the options because they were kinda stupid./il/im/iv and so on.
Hi,
This isn't very ontopic, but I have also been looking at doing tutoring for children. I'm not interested in money from this (A rich parent would be able to afford a tutor anyway, I wanted to try to help out the other kids.) but I'm unsure where to start. I've asked around and tried various things, but no-one trusts anyone anymore around children in the UK. It is possible to do talks in a classroom, but the rules are very strict (fair enough), and I wouldn't be ready to face that many.
I would really like to do something, but don't know what. I used to help out in primary schools on the IT side, but even that I can't seem to do anymore, even with my experiance and references.
Heh. Where I worked for a while we were just the researchers. This meant that we did the research, wrote the code, wrote up what the code did and how, then deleted the code and sent the description of the code to some secret underground lab with teams of genetically modified professional coders. (Actually I have no idea who did the 'real' coding - it just wasn't us - none of our code was allowed anywhere near what the code was deployed on:)
I remember someone telling a story (on/. maybe - i forgot) about they called their new program "enis", but the custom was to add a "D" for development, and a "P" for production. They didn't want to ship the customer a product called Penis, so the managers changed it to "Pnis" iirc, which still sounds the sound when pronounced.
er the point was that he does need the comments there. If he took out everything that somebody might find offensive/rude/arrogant/etc there probably wouldn't be enough comments left.
And he did say that this document doesn't show anything 'evil' etc, if you read it.
It isn't a particulary exciting memo and doesn't say much - ESR says so himself. So perhaps he just can't be bothered writing insightful comments all the way through (after all there is only so much you can say). He has to write something (see comments from the start, or read his faq) and so just writes light banter. He didn't say anything false, or anything with too strong a bias, just made some poor jokes - it's what I probably would have done.
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It's one of those ipaqs with bluetooth support - forget the number.
Heh, I've had a share of accidents on my bike :) ;)
Talking about wall electrical outlets, I remember me and a friend dropped a table on one, and the cover broke off. So real cautiously my friend goes and tries and puts the cover back on, shorting it and causing the brightest flash I've seen and causing our hearts to stop for several minutes i'm sure
er
Heh. I won my ipaq, and it costs more than my gf's laptop. But I can't quite justify spending £90 on it yet - I'll have a hunt on ebay tho, although I distrust ebay.
Can you remember anything about some distro copyrighting the background images, or icons or something to make it so you can't just do a raw copy of the distro? Otherwise I'm going crazy :)
How about one of the high-frequency noise emitors for shattering windows that you are about to crash into, like in Snow Crash.
Heh, I loved cycling down hill too, but never at that speed. I got scared when you are going so fast the whole bike is shaking and rattling.. of course I had a bike without fancy suspension so that wasn't particulary fast :) (I'm not implying that you did have fancy suspension)
Personally I don't think they look to bad.
:)
I wonder if americans dislike it more than europeans. One reason for suggesting this is that americans are very into big 'image' cars compared to european small and fuel-efficent cars.
Perhaps because of this, image is a lot more important to americans.
Be interesting to see statistics on it
I live in Manchester, UK, and wouldn't mind one of these for getting to uni. Buses cost me too much and are way too annoying. (The journey is only 20 mins, but the busses can wait another 20 mins just waiting for ppl). I cycled it for 2 years, but it is too damn cold and wet in the winter.. although that probably means too cold for segway too.
I'm saving up to get a keyboard for my palm (why are they so expensive??). Then at last I can code and document on it. (vi for coding, not sure yet for documenting - probably vi also since I don't need formatting, or if I do, I can live with docbook, latex, or something :)
Ah. I had a really quick look at redhat.com looking for more info on that redhat include copyrighted images, but I can't seem to find anything, so I revoke that statement.
Heh. My brother has come to live with me for a while, and with no knowledge of computers. He picked up linux really easily, and can use the command line pretty good. He went for a job interview, and they asked him if he could use windows. He said no, but he could use linux - the employer was like "what's that?"
Sure, but the type of person who could become a really windows admin is mostly likely the kind of person who would prefer to use linux anyway.
Just an opinion - can't back it up.
Redhat is bad example since iirc they have copyrighted images in their distro. That's why iirc that on say cheapbytes they don't sell copies of redhat, just "thread" which have been modified very slightly (I suspect).
Well.. if you owned your own car and done 200mph on your own road, then that is fine.
Heh. When I was a lot younger (and I'm only 21 now) I studied for the MCSE exam. One question will always stick in my memory is one where it asks for the various options to the setup program on the windows 98 cd. I knew them because I'd installed win98 soooo many times from the command line to get round and fix their stupid installer. I also remember the options because they were kinda stupid. /il /im /iv and so on.
Agreed about the charging money - I've often thought that. It's a shame that the only motive people trust these days is a drive for money ;)
I have a high security clearance anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem.
Hi,
This isn't very ontopic, but I have also been looking at doing tutoring for children. I'm not interested in money from this (A rich parent would be able to afford a tutor anyway, I wanted to try to help out the other kids.) but I'm unsure where to start. I've asked around and tried various things, but no-one trusts anyone anymore around children in the UK. It is possible to do talks in a classroom, but the rules are very strict (fair enough), and I wouldn't be ready to face that many.
I would really like to do something, but don't know what. I used to help out in primary schools on the IT side, but even that I can't seem to do anymore, even with my experiance and references.
Heh. Where I worked for a while we were just the researchers. This meant that we did the research, wrote the code, wrote up what the code did and how, then deleted the code and sent the description of the code to some secret underground lab with teams of genetically modified professional coders. (Actually I have no idea who did the 'real' coding - it just wasn't us - none of our code was allowed anywhere near what the code was deployed on :)
I remember someone telling a story (on /. maybe - i forgot) about they called their new program "enis", but the custom was to add a "D" for development, and a "P" for production. They didn't want to ship the customer a product called Penis, so the managers changed it to "Pnis" iirc, which still sounds the sound when pronounced.
Hmm this is more of a fault of someone who made the library. This is why you have sub versions etc, and aim minor versions to be compatible.
er the point was that he does need the comments there. If he took out everything that somebody might find offensive/rude/arrogant/etc there probably wouldn't be enough comments left.
And he did say that this document doesn't show anything 'evil' etc, if you read it.
It isn't a particulary exciting memo and doesn't say much - ESR says so himself. So perhaps he just can't be bothered writing insightful comments all the way through (after all there is only so much you can say). He has to write something (see comments from the start, or read his faq) and so just writes light banter. He didn't say anything false, or anything with too strong a bias, just made some poor jokes - it's what I probably would have done.