Tell me about it. On my Windows XP Pro machine, explorer crashes like 3-4 times a day, and it's gradually getting worse. The problem is doing a re-install takes forever with all the updates and I end up having to re-install a bunc of brain dead apps that are stupid enough to rely on the registry.
God I hate the registry, why can't everything still use ini files so all information relavant to a program are contained it's own directory. (Some smart programs do), but a lot of games mostly, need a re-install.
Unfortunately with Windows I usually have to re-install once a year, I guess I'm about due.
My Debian box on the other hand hasn't had a fresh install since potato. I've upgraded the machine's cpu and mobo TWICE and upgraded the hard drive at least twice as well, just copy the files over make sure the permissions are correct, and that's it, I love it. Also makes backups a breaze, I can rsync all my files over to a mirror drive on another machine and feel safe knowing my program data, etc isn't going anywhere unless my entire house burns down.
Yeah, I've moved twice since 2002, so I have like 0% chance of getting my check. Mail forwarding only lasts for a year. I wonder what happens to all the returned checks?
I love how all of their examples uses are things like "it could be used by supermarkets to tempt people with the smell of fresh bread or by holiday companies seeking to stir up images of sun-kissed beaches."
Explain to me why I'd want to use up my $48 dollar stink cartidge (heh) on spam?
that's true, I wasn't thinking of that when I posted. I used to own such a machine (a shuttle SV24), I had to copy over a new X driver file every time x upgraded. Kind of a pain, but it made my crappy onboard video work with the older X version in unstable at the time.
I used to be annoyed that X always lagged behind so much in debian/sid. But then I realized, after upgrading to 4.3, do I as a user notice anything different? absolutely not. It might be slightly faster, not that I notice with a 1.33ghz AMD machine... Why does it really matter what version of X you're running, as long as it can handle dri, you can play you games, render true type fonts, etc. Not that I play games under linux anyway, that's what my "play" XP Pro box is for.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems defining the function inline makes the code less readable, and more cluttered. PHP isn't really about being able to mimick the perl one line "goodness". Written properly, php code is very readable and easily maintainable. If feel that's one of the major reasons for it's popularity.
That and the low learning curve and excellent online docs. I have a one stop shop for php documentation. I rarely need any other docs besides php.net/searchstring
My personal solution was white noise, plus learning to sleep with headphones on, I could sleep through a war with that setup, for all of 5 hours, until my alarm went off and it was time to go to class.:)
I probably annoyed my roommate some, but him coming back and trying to take a daily nap in the middle day annoyed me to no extent as well. I finally switched roommate's when I found someone that liked surfing until 3-4 am as well, we never had any trouble sleeping if someone was at his machine. I'm a night person, I always have been, heck in college I used to play games on weekend like 9am or so. Sorry if my habits annoyed people, but i really don't make all that much noise, (I can type quietly, use headphones, and turn down my monitor brightness if really need be)
Anyway, it's all good now, I have my own place and can make as much noise as I want at night, short of mowing my lawn.:)
Heh, I sucked it down in 40 seconds, the parent poster just needs to wait for a bit longer, or the torrent had just been posted and hadn't matured yet. Hadn't matured yet meaning everyone's downloading from one seed, who can't possibly keep up with demand, in that case, all you can do it wait a bit for the single seed to get the data out to more people, who hopefully won't hop off once they have the file.
2.6 actuallys supports my newer hardware better, it finally has real sound drivers for my sound card due to alsa, I actually haven't noticed any increase in hard drive performance, and I could always burn cds faster than 8x.
but that's just my experience on two different machines.
Yep, I've always designed web pages to look good in the current browsers, that W3C stuff is for the birds. Usually I design in gecko based browser, then try it out in IE once I'm done. Usually I try not to go too overboard on CSS, which usually isn't a problem since I code the web pages in vim.:)
Most jobs (so I've heard) go to "friends of friends" or "colleagues of colleagues". So go get yourself noticed.
I've been saying this for years, I've yet to get a job that I didn't know someone who got me in. I've either directly known someone on the inside, or knew someone who recommended me, be it a friend, relative, or a prior business relationship, since my first job in '93.
heh, the best thing I ever programmed was a multiplayer tic tac toe game, complete using graphics and all, you could either use 1 ti82 or 2 ti82s and the link cable:)
I also had other useful programs like a (fast!) prime factorization program, and converting abitrary units program, junk that's probably included in the new calculator's functionality set
too bad I lost all my stuff when my battery died, occassionally my data would dissappear when I remove all the triple a batteries in it, it was only a few years old, so the lithium battery shouldn't have been dead yet... oh well, I'm over it now, all that stuff is long gone.
That sound backwards is: "To win the game, you must kill me, john romero."
Where you have to shoot the boss, there's john romero's head on a stick behind an invisible texture, you can only see it if you go into noclip mode and walk up there.
I just extracted all the doom2 sound effects to that dir. I'm sure you find a lot of common ones. Just don't him me/sue me too hard.:)
On that note, the original quake test1 pain/death sound effects sounded kinda like the Wilhelm style screams if I remember right, they're there as well, just back a directory.
I've heard a lot of doom and doom II sound effects in commercials, tv shows, and movies. The spawning sound effects, the doom II icon thrower sound effect, imp death, etc. I even have a wav file of a cat meow that gets played when someone says my nick on irc, my friends and I chuckled every time we hear it on tv or in a movie. It sticks out like a sore thumb since we've heard it so many times.
This isn't too uncommon tho. There's cd's full of sound effects you can buy and use freely in whatever you want. Usually the low budget stuff uses them. The high budget stuff usually records most of their own stuff in a sound studio. But obviously some old standby's gets used just for fun.
Sure $1 or $2 for a Hollywood movie doesn't sound bad, but why would they possibly want to do that when maybe a fourth or even an eight of those people are willing to buy the DVD in a store for $20.
Yeah, funny how some older shareware worked got crippled after 30 days, but magically on my A600 that was always at the same date, it never expired.:) Maybe they figured if you can only afford an A500, A600, or A1200 then you probably couldn't afford the software either.:)
Since when? As far as I know Justin still works that, that man's nearly incapable of writing bloated code. (He wasn't responsible for winamp3 from what I hear)
I've been running winamp5 beta's for awhile, they're rock solid.
I have two of these mice, they're great. Although I don't use them anymore, I use the scroll wheel too much with java programming in jdeveloper.
I used to use them for gaming (Quake 3 mostly), but now I switched to a logitech usb dual optical mouse w/scroll wheel, it glides more reliably, without needing cleaning every week or so, plus it's a bit more comfy, it's a handful at first, but it really first just right. I guess I was just used to the tiny mice before.
Kinda strange, logitech doens't list any of these mice on their web page, which I take to mean they don't make them anymore. I hate how all the mice are suddenly going cordless, just what I want, yet another device I need to buy batteries for.
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They all get "tired" after a while
Tell me about it. On my Windows XP Pro machine, explorer crashes like 3-4 times a day, and it's gradually getting worse. The problem is doing a re-install takes forever with all the updates and I end up having to re-install a bunc of brain dead apps that are stupid enough to rely on the registry.
God I hate the registry, why can't everything still use ini files so all information relavant to a program are contained it's own directory. (Some smart programs do), but a lot of games mostly, need a re-install.
Unfortunately with Windows I usually have to re-install once a year, I guess I'm about due.
My Debian box on the other hand hasn't had a fresh install since potato. I've upgraded the machine's cpu and mobo TWICE and upgraded the hard drive at least twice as well, just copy the files over make sure the permissions are correct, and that's it, I love it. Also makes backups a breaze, I can rsync all my files over to a mirror drive on another machine and feel safe knowing my program data, etc isn't going anywhere unless my entire house burns down.
I've had mine since July 2003, which isn't all that long, but I still show up as the previous owner as well, so it's not just you.
Yeah, I've moved twice since 2002, so I have like 0% chance of getting my check. Mail forwarding only lasts for a year. I wonder what happens to all the returned checks?
Ya, or just hope that no one wishes you a Merry Christmas with a Mr. Hankey.
I love how all of their examples uses are things like "it could be used by supermarkets to tempt people with the smell of fresh bread or by holiday companies seeking to stir up images of sun-kissed beaches."
Explain to me why I'd want to use up my $48 dollar stink cartidge (heh) on spam?
that's true, I wasn't thinking of that when I posted. I used to own such a machine (a shuttle SV24), I had to copy over a new X driver file every time x upgraded. Kind of a pain, but it made my crappy onboard video work with the older X version in unstable at the time.
I used to be annoyed that X always lagged behind so much in debian/sid. But then I realized, after upgrading to 4.3, do I as a user notice anything different? absolutely not. It might be slightly faster, not that I notice with a 1.33ghz AMD machine... Why does it really matter what version of X you're running, as long as it can handle dri, you can play you games, render true type fonts, etc. Not that I play games under linux anyway, that's what my "play" XP Pro box is for.
So what's the matter with doing it the old way?
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems defining the function inline makes the code less readable, and more cluttered. PHP isn't really about being able to mimick the perl one line "goodness". Written properly, php code is very readable and easily maintainable. If feel that's one of the major reasons for it's popularity.
That and the low learning curve and excellent online docs. I have a one stop shop for php documentation. I rarely need any other docs besides php.net/searchstring
My personal solution was white noise, plus learning to sleep with headphones on, I could sleep through a war with that setup, for all of 5 hours, until my alarm went off and it was time to go to class. :)
:)
I probably annoyed my roommate some, but him coming back and trying to take a daily nap in the middle day annoyed me to no extent as well. I finally switched roommate's when I found someone that liked surfing until 3-4 am as well, we never had any trouble sleeping if someone was at his machine. I'm a night person, I always have been, heck in college I used to play games on weekend like 9am or so. Sorry if my habits annoyed people, but i really don't make all that much noise, (I can type quietly, use headphones, and turn down my monitor brightness if really need be)
Anyway, it's all good now, I have my own place and can make as much noise as I want at night, short of mowing my lawn.
Heh, I sucked it down in 40 seconds, the parent poster just needs to wait for a bit longer, or the torrent had just been posted and hadn't matured yet. Hadn't matured yet meaning everyone's downloading from one seed, who can't possibly keep up with demand, in that case, all you can do it wait a bit for the single seed to get the data out to more people, who hopefully won't hop off once they have the file.
2.6 actuallys supports my newer hardware better, it finally has real sound drivers for my sound card due to alsa, I actually haven't noticed any increase in hard drive performance, and I could always burn cds faster than 8x.
but that's just my experience on two different machines.
it says it's cumulative patch, so it probably does more than just these few fixes, it probably does all ie related security patches post xp sp1.
Yep, I've always designed web pages to look good in the current browsers, that W3C stuff is for the birds. Usually I design in gecko based browser, then try it out in IE once I'm done. Usually I try not to go too overboard on CSS, which usually isn't a problem since I code the web pages in vim. :)
Most jobs (so I've heard) go to "friends of friends" or "colleagues of colleagues". So go get yourself noticed.
I've been saying this for years, I've yet to get a job that I didn't know someone who got me in. I've either directly known someone on the inside, or knew someone who recommended me, be it a friend, relative, or a prior business relationship, since my first job in '93.
the 6 is an even number, hence it implies stable.
the 2.5 series was/is unstable until it matured into the current 2.6.x stable series, the next unstable kernel will be 2.7.x, etc etc.
adding an unstable anywhere in the name would be redundant
heh, the best thing I ever programmed was a multiplayer tic tac toe game, complete using graphics and all, you could either use 1 ti82 or 2 ti82s and the link cable :)
I also had other useful programs like a (fast!) prime factorization program, and converting abitrary units program, junk that's probably included in the new calculator's functionality set
too bad I lost all my stuff when my battery died, occassionally my data would dissappear when I remove all the triple a batteries in it, it was only a few years old, so the lithium battery shouldn't have been dead yet... oh well, I'm over it now, all that stuff is long gone.
That sound backwards is: "To win the game, you must kill me, john romero."
Where you have to shoot the boss, there's john romero's head on a stick behind an invisible texture, you can only see it if you go into noclip mode and walk up there.
doom2 icon thrower
:)
I just extracted all the doom2 sound effects to that dir. I'm sure you find a lot of common ones. Just don't him me/sue me too hard.
On that note, the original quake test1 pain/death sound effects sounded kinda like the Wilhelm style screams if I remember right, they're there as well, just back a directory.
I've heard a lot of doom and doom II sound effects in commercials, tv shows, and movies. The spawning sound effects, the doom II icon thrower sound effect, imp death, etc. I even have a wav file of a cat meow that gets played when someone says my nick on irc, my friends and I chuckled every time we hear it on tv or in a movie. It sticks out like a sore thumb since we've heard it so many times.
This isn't too uncommon tho. There's cd's full of sound effects you can buy and use freely in whatever you want. Usually the low budget stuff uses them. The high budget stuff usually records most of their own stuff in a sound studio. But obviously some old standby's gets used just for fun.
it does inifinite popups on mozilla as well, all praise ctrl-q
Sure $1 or $2 for a Hollywood movie doesn't sound bad, but why would they possibly want to do that when maybe a fourth or even an eight of those people are willing to buy the DVD in a store for $20.
Yeah, funny how some older shareware worked got crippled after 30 days, but magically on my A600 that was always at the same date, it never expired. :) Maybe they figured if you can only afford an A500, A600, or A1200 then you probably couldn't afford the software either. :)
From glancing over the patent, it only mentions CDROMs, So I'd have to guess no.
Since when? As far as I know Justin still works that, that man's nearly incapable of writing bloated code. (He wasn't responsible for winamp3 from what I hear)
I've been running winamp5 beta's for awhile, they're rock solid.
I have two of these mice, they're great. Although I don't use them anymore, I use the scroll wheel too much with java programming in jdeveloper.
I used to use them for gaming (Quake 3 mostly), but now I switched to a logitech usb dual optical mouse w/scroll wheel, it glides more reliably, without needing cleaning every week or so, plus it's a bit more comfy, it's a handful at first, but it really first just right. I guess I was just used to the tiny mice before.
Kinda strange, logitech doens't list any of these mice on their web page, which I take to mean they don't make them anymore. I hate how all the mice are suddenly going cordless, just what I want, yet another device I need to buy batteries for.