> That's how I do my backups./dev/null is surprisingly fast to backup and use/dev/rand to restore. Plus I never have to change tapes or even compress the backups...
I was wondering what is this/dev/rand you were speaking about, so I took a look (cat/dev/rand) and was surprised to find the complete works of Shakespeare stored in a device on my system. Linux never ceases to amaze me. However, when I tried to view it again all I got was gibberish. Please tell me how to view the complete works of Shakespeare through/dev/rand again.
> How do you feel about the compulsory body searches, helicopter gunships (that "can lethally disrupt any action on the ground"), Hercules patrols with submachine guns and snipers?
I just heard they are sealing the manhole covers shut for New Year's Eve. *sigh* At least we'll all be safe from C.H.U.D.
Personally, I always thought this part didn't flow well in the book either. It didn't seem to "fit". The style was different, the main plot was over, it didn't seem to matter. I am glad Jackson chose this section to cut from the movie. It will make a better movie, and IMBO (In My Blasphemous Opinion) would have made a better book too.
Most books are too big to fit in a movie, and these books are bigger than most. By big I mean big with details, plots, characters, etc, not just big in pages. If Jackson had to cut something out without changing the main plotline, Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire were the best choices.
A DOS attack wouldn't hurt them. Their business is lawsuits. They could shut down their entire operation, as long as their lawyers can work, they are in business.
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>> Perhaps less music will be recorded if there isn't a profit to be made anymore, but maybe more people will be involved in the creative process.
> How could more people be involved if less people are recording?
Because recording and creating are not the same thing. It wasn't long ago that music was something everybody created and enjoyed as a part of their day instead of a commodity to be consumed. When my grandparents wanted to wind down at the end of the day, my grandmother would sit down at the piano and my grandfather would get out his violin and they would make music.
There is no contradiction in what the parent poster wrote. The music "industry" could shrink, change, or go away and people's involvement in music and the creative process could still increase.
> i feel compelled to point out that it's Japanese that doesn't have the L sound
I know. I was hoping no one would catch that. But the subject 'Dong Jing Shu Mu' or 'Hao Lai Wu' would not have been nearly as funny, would it? Instead of +4 funny it would have gotten -4 WTF?
From now on, when posting an article, could you please save me time and thought by prefixing all articles with GOOD THING: (article title), or BAD THING: (article title)
That way I will know how to feel about the news in the article without making up my own mind.
> If your kids look at horsefucking and scat play at the age of 15, and think that it is normal expressions of sexuality, you need to do a better job of parenting.
Morality advice from someone named "Hung Way Low" who knows the right slang terms for fucking a horse and playing with shit. Great.
> By age 15, I'd be concerned if they weren't yet looking at porn.
And how would you feel about your 15 year old looking at women fucking horses while men rub shit on them? Because that kind of garbage is out there and easily found (hell, it comes up in my mailbox thanks to spam).
I for one do not want my kids to think THAT is a normal expression of sexuality. Most people go through their lives never even imaginging things like that, and do just fine.
I wish I never saw things like that. I have one of you slashdotters to thank for goatse.cx and tubgirl!
I can't believe I'm responding to such an obvious troll.... but...
How is this like a car that randomly explodes? This is like a gang threatening to slash your tires. Would the auto company be liable because their tires are not slashproof? As we know from THIS site, nobody is slashproof!:-)
> 1) Boot from favorite UNIX-based OS-on-a-floppy. For those who don't know what he's talking about try Knoppix. > 2) Sector-by-sector copy the old HD to another new HD. For those who don't know what he's talking about use 'dd'. > 3) Grow/resize the new HD accordingly.. I don't think PartitionMagic has broken that. (And there are probably other utilities out there equally good) > 4) Change the NT unique ID (if the old OS will remain on the old system). For those who don't know alot of MS trivia, including me, what the fsck is that and how do you do it?
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> my PC has no case
Is that your cat lying dead next to the power supply?
> practically everthing on a Mac is proprietary Apple software
> why shouldn't someone be able to force me to write a program in such away
Because neither Apple nor YOU are monopolies.
"Are you staring at our neighbor's teenage daughter sunbathing again, you pervert?!"
"No, I swear I'm watching TV..."
> whats the point when i can build a PC for $200?
Aren't you stretching it a bit?
Show me where you can buy a PC for $200 including case, motherboard, cpu, ram, power supply, hard drive, cd-rom, floppy, keyboard, and mouse.
Troll?! Troll?!
It's called "subtle humor".
An infinite number of monkeys punching randomly on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually generate the complete works of Shakespeare. Get it?
> That's how I do my backups. /dev/null is surprisingly fast to backup and use /dev/rand to restore. Plus I never have to change tapes or even compress the backups...
/dev/rand you were speaking about, so I took a look (cat /dev/rand) and was surprised to find the complete works of Shakespeare stored in a device on my system. Linux never ceases to amaze me. /dev/rand again.
I was wondering what is this
However, when I tried to view it again all I got was gibberish. Please tell me how to view the complete works of Shakespeare through
> I'd rather watch this video than endure another Linux bore-a-thon.
My favorite linux-switch-ad.
> Have sex then when your not talking...
You're not married, are you?
> How do you feel about the compulsory body searches, helicopter gunships (that "can lethally disrupt any action on the ground"), Hercules patrols with submachine guns and snipers?
I just heard they are sealing the manhole covers shut for New Year's Eve.
*sigh* At least we'll all be safe from C.H.U.D.
Personally, I always thought this part didn't flow well in the book either. It didn't seem to "fit". The style was different, the main plot was over, it didn't seem to matter. I am glad Jackson chose this section to cut from the movie. It will make a better movie, and IMBO (In My Blasphemous Opinion) would have made a better book too.
Most books are too big to fit in a movie, and these books are bigger than most. By big I mean big with details, plots, characters, etc, not just big in pages. If Jackson had to cut something out without changing the main plotline, Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire were the best choices.
A DOS attack wouldn't hurt them.
Their business is lawsuits.
They could shut down their entire operation, as long as their lawyers can work, they are in business.
> Why don't we funnel all trucking traffic into and out of all major port cities through residential streets!
Ah, I see you live in New York too.
> At work we use plastic Gould bins, which hook onto a frame in the rear.
I, for one, welcome our new Goa'uld overlords. Although I'd rather not be stuck in one of their bins.
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>> Perhaps less music will be recorded if there isn't a profit to be made anymore, but maybe more people will be involved in the creative process.
> How could more people be involved if less people are recording?
Because recording and creating are not the same thing. It wasn't long ago that music was something everybody created and enjoyed as a part of their day instead of a commodity to be consumed. When my grandparents wanted to wind down at the end of the day, my grandmother would sit down at the piano and my grandfather would get out his violin and they would make music.
There is no contradiction in what the parent poster wrote. The music "industry" could shrink, change, or go away and people's involvement in music and the creative process could still increase.
> phssssssthpok
Was this whale talking to a Pak Protector?
> i feel compelled to point out that it's Japanese that doesn't have the L sound
I know. I was hoping no one would catch that.
But the subject 'Dong Jing Shu Mu' or 'Hao Lai Wu' would not have been nearly as funny, would it?
Instead of +4 funny it would have gotten -4 WTF?
Oh well, I'll just have to do without all those great movies made in China.
Yes, the real danger is not the flying-nano-bots of the future, it is the flying-centi-bots that are here now! There's one at my window!
From now on, when posting an article, could you please save me time and thought by prefixing all articles with
GOOD THING: (article title), or
BAD THING: (article title)
That way I will know how to feel about the news in the article without making up my own mind.
> why don't I get interesting spam like that?
> How mant time did you go got goatse.cx? Now I have to google for tubgirl and it's YOUR FAULT, I hope you burn in hell for my degradation!
Old Chinese saying: Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it...
> If your kids look at horsefucking and scat play at the age of 15, and think that it is normal expressions of sexuality, you need to do a better job of parenting.
Morality advice from someone named "Hung Way Low" who knows the right slang terms for fucking a horse and playing with shit. Great.
> By age 15, I'd be concerned if they weren't yet looking at porn.
And how would you feel about your 15 year old looking at women fucking horses while men rub shit on them? Because that kind of garbage is out there and easily found (hell, it comes up in my mailbox thanks to spam).
I for one do not want my kids to think THAT is a normal expression of sexuality. Most people go through their lives never even imaginging things like that, and do just fine.
I wish I never saw things like that. I have one of you slashdotters to thank for goatse.cx and tubgirl!
I can't believe I'm responding to such an obvious troll.... but...
:-)
How is this like a car that randomly explodes?
This is like a gang threatening to slash your tires. Would the auto company be liable because their tires are not slashproof?
As we know from THIS site, nobody is slashproof!
It's not naive [SIC] it just has no details.
> 1) Boot from favorite UNIX-based OS-on-a-floppy.
For those who don't know what he's talking about try Knoppix.
> 2) Sector-by-sector copy the old HD to another new HD.
For those who don't know what he's talking about use 'dd'.
> 3) Grow/resize the new HD accordingly.. I don't think PartitionMagic has broken that. (And there are probably other utilities out there equally good)
> 4) Change the NT unique ID (if the old OS will remain on the old system).
For those who don't know alot of MS trivia, including me, what the fsck is that and how do you do it?