About two years ago in a Knoppix related story here on slashdot, somebody who ran an internet cafe in Europe used Knoppix on his server with thin clients PXE booted from it. Everything in the place was diskless (my guess is that the amount of RAM in the shop was huge, though). When they pulled the plug every night, no trace remained of who had browsed or what they had seen. I thought that the idea had a certain elegance in the privacy realm.
This is why I love Thailand. Pretty much everything is available over the counter. I can self-prescribe as often as I like. This means that I don't have to schedule a doctor's appointment for a minor ear infection when I already know what the doctor will tell me to take and I just need his/her signature.
It's my second ID (after I lost the password to the old one), and I didn't even have an account for nearly the first two years. I got this one in 2000, if I remember correctly. I started coming to Slashdot shortly after I started using Linux, which was about December 1996. That puts me at about 8 1/2 years, right? I didn't mark it down in my calendar as "First day I visited Slashdot," though.
Well, I wish that stories like this were reported LESS on Slashdot. I have felt for some months that there is less and less interesting for me to read, and a look at the sidebar shows me why:
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Let's see. That's 17 Game stories and some other stuff thrown in. For 8 years, I've come to this site to find out about tech. 17/28 stories are gaming. Obviously, Slashdot is turning into a game site, and I guess I should wander off to find a real tech site, instead.
Well, while charity is an important part of society, Bill and Melinda's contributions have been helped by the three times that I've been required to purchase WinXP recently, even though I had no need or desire for the licenses. "The Robber Baron" syndrome...
Since you can't see more than 24 of his postings, you will not see how CZ loves to fan flames with baseless charges, followed by relentless straw-man arguing and name-calling when presented with facts disputing his original claim. Although he may believe that he is just a retired man spending his time as he wishes, I classify most of his posts as trolls. I believe this so much that I'm willing to put my name on it.
I agree. When I lived in Thailand, my journal was reasonably well-read. It's comments about FLOSS were a mix of first-hand experience and description of news unavailable in English. As far as I could tell, I had quite a few regular readers. I think that this shows that blogs don't have to be sensationalist or mindless drivel.
On second thought, it may have been the highly sexual content scattered in that was the main draw...
Well, NineNine, in your 5+ years of complaining about Linux, I would think that you would have learned the standard way to start and stop a service on it, or that/etc/init.d/ is where the init scropts are located....
I ended up being in management. I've had to hire some of these geniuses. They are not in management because they were not people orientated. I think their intellect -- The way intellect is measured is a little bit faulty. Geniuses, they don't have a feel for the work environment or they don't know how to say the right thing and you combine that with not working hard, so particularly in the engineering field I'm sure a lot of people, geniuses, just don't get it.
Although Narcissus and AC have answered you effectively already, I want to explain more directly due to your amazing ignorance on this matter. I haven't taken a math course in 17 years or used significant digits since that time, but I still remember this issue because it's so bleeding important to math.
5.1 has two significant digits. This means that the real value for 5.1 falls at or about 5.05 and below 5.15.
5.10 has three significant digits. This means that the real value for 5.10 falls at or above 5.095 and below 5.105.
That you don't know this shows either you intention to troll or your inability to pay attention in your secondary math courses.
As pointed out, though, this is all pointless because versioning does not follow a decimal system.
I can't speak for dating services, having never used one, but my gal and I have successfully met several singles and couples on a swinger site without a pay account. Mostly the men are jerks, but there are some beautiful women there, as well.
Well, then, come here and make the big bucks and get the ladies... The progamers here, though, are excellent and well versed in strategy, so Starcraft may be more difficult than a few years ago.
Yes, my favorite use for cat is cat *.VOB|mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy && mencoder test.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -o myfilm.avi
right before I take that rental back to the store. Yes, I know that there are a lot of options which can be added, but I don't use any of them. I also know that I could put those file names directly into the mencoder line, but it dies with an error about 30% of the time when I do that...
I think that MS made a cunning move here. By explicitly allowing this for one reseller, they have set themselves up as the approval authority for all sales of used MS software. Once people become used to that, MS can withdraw its approval without any serious complaint from consumers.
Well, then, they'll probably want this http://www.haansoftlinux.com/. I've tried the free 3.2 version, and it's pretty good, but didn't want to pay the money for the 4.0 version just to evaluate it, since I wasn't going to use it for my desktop, anyway. Haansoft controls most of the office market here, and they basically give the linux away and sell the office suite for it. I haven't actually ever seen anyone do that, but that's the marketing plan, anyway.
All my male, teen students do in their free time is play Starcraft. When I go to a restaurant near lunchtime, the TV is always on OnGameNet (AKA 24 hours CS / Starcraft). The female teens all play MAple Story (online MMORPG). The young adults that I know spend their evenings playing Kart Rider (online racing). Everybody wants to be a progamer when he or she grows up.
As much as I want Linux to succeed here in S. Korea, HanSoft's 3.2 version is already free, and it isn't doing their market share any good.
Not a chance of this happening in the private sector.
All my male, teen students do in their free time is play Starcraft. When I go to a restaurant near lunchtime, the TV is always on OnGameNet (AKA 24 hours CS / Starcraft). The female teens all play MAple Story (online MMORPG). The young adults that I know spend their evenings playing Kart Rider (online racing). Everybody wants to be a progamer when he or she grows up.
As much as I want Linux to succeed here in S. Korea, HanSoft's 3.2 version is already free, and it isn't doing their market share any good.
Not a chance of this happening in the private sector.
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I hope that statement was made jokingly...
About two years ago in a Knoppix related story here on slashdot, somebody who ran an internet cafe in Europe used Knoppix on his server with thin clients PXE booted from it. Everything in the place was diskless (my guess is that the amount of RAM in the shop was huge, though). When they pulled the plug every night, no trace remained of who had browsed or what they had seen. I thought that the idea had a certain elegance in the privacy realm.
This is why I love Thailand. Pretty much everything is available over the counter. I can self-prescribe as often as I like. This means that I don't have to schedule a doctor's appointment for a minor ear infection when I already know what the doctor will tell me to take and I just need his/her signature.
It's my second ID (after I lost the password to the old one), and I didn't even have an account for nearly the first two years. I got this one in 2000, if I remember correctly. I started coming to Slashdot shortly after I started using Linux, which was about December 1996. That puts me at about 8 1/2 years, right? I didn't mark it down in my calendar as "First day I visited Slashdot," though.
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Let's see. That's 17 Game stories and some other stuff thrown in. For 8 years, I've come to this site to find out about tech. 17/28 stories are gaming. Obviously, Slashdot is turning into a game site, and I guess I should wander off to find a real tech site, instead.Well, while charity is an important part of society, Bill and Melinda's contributions have been helped by the three times that I've been required to purchase WinXP recently, even though I had no need or desire for the licenses. "The Robber Baron" syndrome...
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The return of Social Darwinism -- http://www.joebobbriggs.com/specialreports/200305
Since you can't see more than 24 of his postings, you will not see how CZ loves to fan flames with baseless charges, followed by relentless straw-man arguing and name-calling when presented with facts disputing his original claim. Although he may believe that he is just a retired man spending his time as he wishes, I classify most of his posts as trolls. I believe this so much that I'm willing to put my name on it.
Personally, I prefer AFF to myspace, but that's just me...
I agree. When I lived in Thailand, my journal was reasonably well-read. It's comments about FLOSS were a mix of first-hand experience and description of news unavailable in English. As far as I could tell, I had quite a few regular readers. I think that this shows that blogs don't have to be sensationalist or mindless drivel.
On second thought, it may have been the highly sexual content scattered in that was the main draw...
Well, NineNine, in your 5+ years of complaining about Linux, I would think that you would have learned the standard way to start and stop a service on it, or that /etc/init.d/ is where the init scropts are located....
Goddammit! I have people skills! ... Errrr, something like that, anyway.
To score points, make sure that you hit the target.
This picture shows that flush / no-flush is not the only debate over urinals, at least in Korea.
Although Narcissus and AC have answered you effectively already, I want to explain more directly due to your amazing ignorance on this matter. I haven't taken a math course in 17 years or used significant digits since that time, but I still remember this issue because it's so bleeding important to math.
5.1 has two significant digits. This means that the real value for 5.1 falls at or about 5.05 and below 5.15.
5.10 has three significant digits. This means that the real value for 5.10 falls at or above 5.095 and below 5.105.
That you don't know this shows either you intention to troll or your inability to pay attention in your secondary math courses.
As pointed out, though, this is all pointless because versioning does not follow a decimal system.
Five prostitutes for my soul? Sold. I wasn't using it anyway...
I can't speak for dating services, having never used one, but my gal and I have successfully met several singles and couples on a swinger site without a pay account. Mostly the men are jerks, but there are some beautiful women there, as well.
Well, then, come here and make the big bucks and get the ladies... The progamers here, though, are excellent and well versed in strategy, so Starcraft may be more difficult than a few years ago.
Besides, the drunks need to know where to aim
That reminds me of this sign admonishing the users of a urinal in Techno Mart to be careful. (Work safe link!)
You just want to change the view to "Web Layout." You can do that either by checking it, or by unchecking "Print View."
Yes, my favorite use for cat is
cat *.VOB|mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy && mencoder test.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -o myfilm.avi
right before I take that rental back to the store. Yes, I know that there are a lot of options which can be added, but I don't use any of them. I also know that I could put those file names directly into the mencoder line, but it dies with an error about 30% of the time when I do that...
I think that MS made a cunning move here. By explicitly allowing this for one reseller, they have set themselves up as the approval authority for all sales of used MS software. Once people become used to that, MS can withdraw its approval without any serious complaint from consumers.
Well, then, they'll probably want this http://www.haansoftlinux.com/. I've tried the free 3.2 version, and it's pretty good, but didn't want to pay the money for the 4.0 version just to evaluate it, since I wasn't going to use it for my desktop, anyway. Haansoft controls most of the office market here, and they basically give the linux away and sell the office suite for it. I haven't actually ever seen anyone do that, but that's the marketing plan, anyway.
All my male, teen students do in their free time is play Starcraft. When I go to a restaurant near lunchtime, the TV is always on OnGameNet (AKA 24 hours CS / Starcraft). The female teens all play MAple Story (online MMORPG). The young adults that I know spend their evenings playing Kart Rider (online racing). Everybody wants to be a progamer when he or she grows up.
As much as I want Linux to succeed here in S. Korea, HanSoft's 3.2 version is already free, and it isn't doing their market share any good.
Not a chance of this happening in the private sector.
All my male, teen students do in their free time is play Starcraft. When I go to a restaurant near lunchtime, the TV is always on OnGameNet (AKA 24 hours CS / Starcraft). The female teens all play MAple Story (online MMORPG). The young adults that I know spend their evenings playing Kart Rider (online racing). Everybody wants to be a progamer when he or she grows up.
As much as I want Linux to succeed here in S. Korea, HanSoft's 3.2 version is already free, and it isn't doing their market share any good.
Not a chance of this happening in the private sector.