Hey dingo brain... The point is that regardless of performance, if you are going 300 miles and you only use one gallon of gas, then you're doing much better than a conventional gas powered automobile Even if you want to be a total bean counter and factor in the cost of the electricity used to charge the batteries enough to make that 300 mile trip (which is stupid in my opinion) the fact is you will pollute less and use far fewer resources. Quit being such an arse ya bugger.
Yeah... that's what we really want. The general public, airborne. Think about all the idiot drivers in SUVs that flip their vehicles regularly. Do you really want those mouth breathers FLYING? At high speed? If we ever do get flying cars (vertical take off and landing vehicles, or VTOLs), it won't be long before these VTOLs are slamming into the sides of office buildings (forget terrorists) and crashing through people's rooftops. Drunk flying anyone? Mid-air collisions? The only way I'd be OK with flying cars was if the average population not only had an IQ of 180 to start, but also had a really strong sense of REAL personal responsibility. That is to say, "Not only do I care about taking care of myself, but I care about the wellbeing of every human being that I am around". Until that happens (yeah right), I'll be casting my vote against the common neanderthal getting off the ground.
...that's where we were headed. What a stupid idea. It's like giving people PCs. They have more computing power than they actually need. They waste more power because it's inefficient. They cause more problems because they are clueless about maintaining their PCs and get rooted more times than I care to imagine. They are stupid enough to take their PCs in for repair at big box shops that employ neanderthal techs (not all of them, but most of them are stupid goons) and then pay an arm and a leg for a completely reformatted system at best and a poorly patched system at worst. But most of all, these people who seem to think they need all this computing power do VERY little with their systems and probably use about 3% of what the systems are capable of. Now apply that to local power generation paying attention to the fact that a reactor need fuel and careful maintenance:
They have more electrical power than they actually need. They waste more electrical power AND nuclear fuel because a reactor for a small group of homes is inefficient. They will cause more problems (explosions, radioactive contamination) because they are clueless about properly maintaining their nukes and will likely come very close to meltdowns more times than I care to imagine. They will be stupid enough to trust the repair and maintenance of their nukes to companies that will employ neanderthal techs who are poorly paid and have little care for making mistakes. (Hell, if a phone company can blow up a house by hitting a gas line [this happened in Strongsville Ohio in August 2007. Look it up.] and very likely shirk all responsibility, you can just imagine what the private sector will do with nuke maintenance) But most of all, these people who seem to think they need locally generated power for their cul de sac will like use VERY little of the power generated and the rest will be wasted in the name of convenience.
Yes, I believe that energy companies are vultures and most of the CEOs and administration in those companies should be lined up against a wall... But I also think that part of the equation to really being smart about electrical energy consumption comes down to conservation. Instead of Toshiba making nukes as a first line of energy crisis solutions, they should instead be working on ways to make their devices more power efficient. Even if it means INCONVENIENCE for the end user. ALL of the consumer electronic companies should be doing this. Make sure all devices actually turn completely off and drain NO power when a user is not using it. Make sure that all computing devices that need to have a saved state do so with solid state drives and better battery technology. Re-work home computing so that all you need is one central resource module that hosts CPU, RAM and storage and interacts with wireless devices that are the "terminals" or "thin clients" while still providing something that feels like a regular PC experience. Make sure that one central module does NOT run an OS at all, but simply hands out resources to the authorized devices. That way you can buy one decent unit that might last a decade instead of new PCs every two to three years. And GET USED TO INCONVENIENCE. It's better than destroying the planet. I'll happily ride the bus to work instead of drive if it means I'm one less polluter. (I do ride the bus to work for just that reason) If you can't bring yourself to inconvenience yourself, you've failed in your civic duty to others.
You're completely leaving out the whole Planet X factor and the Niburu race. I don't think the NEAs are as big of a threat as Planet X. And I'm pretty certain that this object that they're talking about is really Planet X but they're not telling us to prevent widespread panic. That object isn't headed for Mars, it's going to pass between Earth and Mars and then the Niburu invasion will begin. From what I've been reading online, the power elite on Earth have made deals with the Niburu to spare their lives and the lives of their families. But the average earth man is doomed to live a life of slavery in the Niburu slave service. If our time stream hadn't been screwed with back in the 50s, we'd be fine. Apparently we were a much more advanced civilization before the 1950s. Pretty much all the "history" that takes place before the earl 50s is artificial. We already had space colonies throughout the galaxy and were trading with other races. But then another alien race messed with our time stream and changed the direction of the human race on Earth from that point on. They cooked up this fake history which was then set as our backdrop. But some of us are still aware of what happened. We just no longer have the memory of our former civilization to be able to fix the problem. And now we're powerless to defend ourselves from the dreaded Niburu! We're doomed!
It's not an asteroid! It's Planet X! The Niburu are returning to enslave us all as has been predicted for centuries! There is a lot of good info out there on the internet about how the power elite on Earth have been in contact with the Niburu since some time in the 50s. Time has been manipulated and we've been fooled into thinking that where we are today is where we're supposed to be. But we were much more advanced technologically in the 1940s and 1950s until some of the other alien races started messing with our time stream. They've altered our reality and now we're powerless to defend ourselves against the Niburu. We're doomed! DOOMED!!!
What, pray tell, is that ASCII art supposed to be? It looks like Alice the Goon from the Moon (Popeye reference) riding a bike. Were you thinking of something more like this perhaps?
While natural language might seem like a good idea to people who are less technical, it's actually a really bad idea. It would slow a lot of things down in terms of search and would bring with it deep inefficiencies. Frankly, I think search engines would be improved if they offered advanced features with brief commands (kind of like how Unix abbreviates 'copy' as 'cp' or 'move' as 'mv'). For example, which do you think is better when you want to move quickly, a vehicle with wheels, or a bipedal vehicle with legs? The answer is obvious, wheels trump legs for speed. The same with language interfaces to computers. A middle language between machine and human language is the best approach. With a focus on efficiency and no ambiguity whatsoever. Loglan. There you go. move along...
But why stop at just OpenOffice? I've been running like this for years with Xvnc. If you're reasonably comfortable with Linux, know how to use OpenSSH to tunnel TCP traffic (poor man's VPN) and can get around in a gdm config file, then you can do this:
Prerequisites: OpenSSH server and client on app server, a Gnome desktop environment (can be kludged to work in KDE as well), VNC4 (to make sure you have the Xvnc server application)
1. Edit your Gnome gdm config file. Depending on your distro it could be in/etc/X11/gdm or/usr/share/gdm. The file is either custom.conf or defaults.conf respectively. Simply copy and paste the "Standard Server" section and change the command from X (with options) to Xvnc -localhost -SecurityTypes=None. Rename the section "VNCDesktop" Then replace the 0=StandardServer with 0=VNCDesktop. (Note this will prevent you from having a local X server running which means no GUI on the server. I run headless so that's fine, but if you want a GUI on your server, then start at 1= and leave the 0=StandardServer untouched) If you want more than one desktop for multiple users, set up, 1=VNCDesktop, 2=VNCDesktop and so on.
2. Set up your tunneling info in either PuTTY (if you're stuck on a Windows platform) or OpenSSH ~/.ssh/config as follows:
*nix ~/.ssh/config:
host MyVNCServer hostname your.internet.ip.or.hostname User myusername LocalForward 5910 localhost:5900
PuTTY: In PuTTY, look under tunnels near the bottom of the configuration pane and set up a Local forwarding. Source should be 5910 and destination should be localhost:5900 (to connect to the VNC server run by 0=VNCDesktop). If you are using the server run by 1=VNCDesktop, then your forwarding should be 5911 localhost:5901 and so on. Save your settings and connect to the OpenSSH server.
3. Connect to the tunneled desktop with VNCViewer. Just launch it and point to the local port by typing ":0" for servers configured to run as 0=VNCDesktop. If you are using 1=VNCDesktop then point VNCViewer at:1, and so on.
Enjoy... It's worked well for me for years with a minimum of fuss and no downtime. I can run any application I want. OpenOffice, Gimp a web browser, etc... The best thing of all is that it's encrypted and if you set it up inside your home network, you can access it from anywhere in the world with a network connection that doesn't block port 22 for SSH.
Ahhh... you seem to be new here. There is a new language that is growing like a cancer. It's called iEnglish. In general it has only a few additional syntactical rules over standard English and a blatant disregard for classic English grammar. Accompanying that are also rules of engagement for internet forums:
1. If you are below a certain level of intelligence and you think it looks cool, do it. Example: Can u read this? 2. The rules of standard English are kind of stodgy and don't really hold up well in polls. Just use whatever you think works and most people will know what you mean even if you don't write it correctly. Also make sure to embrace Appalachionics since it has a warm and homey feel that makes you seem like someone people would want to have a beer with: My warshing machine needs fixed. Or... The nukyelar family is important above else all! 3. Make sure to avoid using more than one or two sentences per paragraph and no more than four paragraphs when writing stuff unless you want someone to think you're boring. Example:
a. Good writing:
"That guy's a troll. He sucks donkey dicks
It's a good thing we're on Digg. None of those crappy Slashdotters.
Go back to Slashdot you asshat."
b. Bad writing: "Please don't feed the trolls. If you pay more attention to them, they'll keep coming back and lower the tone. The other fallout, is that we have more noise vs. signal if you insist on engaging the trolls. This has been a truism since the beginning of Usenet. I should know, I was there..." (Goes on for ten paragraphs with endless words that are boring, like "truism". WTF is a truism and why should we know?)
4. Make sure to nip any kind of conversation in the bud that isn't beer drinker friendly. The best way to do that is to instantly refer to the poster as a troll if they say something you don't like. The second best way is to invoke Godwin's law even if it doesn't really fit. The main is to keep people from talking about stuff that sucks. Remember, if it won't play on Spike TV, The SciFi Channel, or G4, then it shouldn't be on line either.
5. Always ALWAYS A-L-W-A-Y-S use pictures of videos instead of writing. It's so much cleaner and easier to understand than all that messy and archaic mucking about with text. All you need is a photo or video the presents what you want it to say, then a subject like "Amazing thing!!!!" and you're all set. You'll be communicating in the 21st century in ways that would have had Gutenberg himself breaking out into a cold sweat over.
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...this will stay legal for what? Five minutes? As soon as they're successful, this is going to be locked up tighter than a drum (as an old employer used to say). There won't be any namby pamby warm and fuzzy open community feelings for long. I see the end result being collusion by big pharma and their de-balled government lackies to outlaw this. Especially if it would mean "illegitimate" alternatives to big pharma. The companies that make medicine today aren't here to cure you. They're here to make a profit. And it that means making you and keeping you just sick enough to keep coming back for more, you can bet they won't want competition from people who actually might have your best interests at heart.
Disney's still alive? Last I heard, his brain was preserved in a vat of liquid at EPCOT center so that when science reached a point where they could revive it, it would be protected and ready to do their bidding. (Who "they" are is a mystery) Now, I've always been intrigued by this idea of preserving brains and bodies, etc... And I've always entertained the notion that with our limited knowledge of what is actually important in doing that, we may be merely pickling these individuals. When the day comes where we may be able to revive someone, it's entirely likely that the bodies and brains packaged in the past will be nothing better than a gherkin.
I've been working with a variety of tools for years and I have yet to see anything that can read data from a hard drive that's been zeroed out. Now... I'm not saying that it's impossible to get the data. I'm just saying that all the stories about the ability to see data on a platter that's been overwritten many times by reading faint magnetic signatures sounds like... well, a good story. I know that you mean they would be working with a copy, but your comment made me think of the stories I've heard of the FBI being able to recover data from drives that have been erased by the OS or had all bits filled with zeros repeatedly.
...Microsoft's work has nothing on the original memex as envisioned by Vanevar Bush in the 40s. Chances are they don't even credit him. Everything old is new again. Blah blah blah. Not to mention, I have a ton of innovative ideas in a set of text files at home that would probably put most of Microsoft's ideas to shame.
There's more to it than that. The real truth is that party allegiances by voters are as split as the general population. The end result: it is not possible to reach a consensus unless people are willing to let go of their core beliefs. This is an impossibility. Even if the liberals were to say, "OK. We'll let you conservatives make it illegal for gays to marry, but in exchange you need to assure us that we will never have prayer in schools". well... that just won't work for anyone, will it? Now I know that the next line of defense in these arguments are that these are "divisive" issues that are calculated to thwart the election process. But, in the end, this is also not true. If you're gay, and you want to get married, but the law is saying that you can't, you are an oppressed minority. If you're not a Christian and you want to start a Jainist prayer group in a small town high school under the suggestion that prayer is now allowed in schools, you're likely to be an oppressed minority once again. They might result in split opinions, but they're not really unimportant in the grander scheme of things. They are both slaps in the face to human rights. Human rights abuses if you will (and we thought that only happens in communist china).
I shouldn't have been surprised by that response. But I suspect you're not really a true conservative. Probably just a troll because of your overuse of typical right wing insults. A real right-winger would talk like that at all. And most conservatives I know don't think that our country is on the right track either. But hell, why should I care. People like you make the rest of society more likely to take my side. So keep it up. Your taking the sycophant's route is sure to do more good for liberals than harm. I should note that I'm not really a liberal at all. They don't have balls which is why they annoy the piss out of me.
Wow. You really need to lay off the Demoncrat koolaide. Your stupid is showing in large amounts. Let me illustrate for you. The first mistake you made in your post was to bring up the word "values". Mainly because moonbat liberals don't have ANY values. You guys want to desecrate holy matrimony by letting gays get married. As soon as the man boy love association wants to legalize their practices you'll probably back them too. That's why I don't like the godless direction America took under the liberal haze that set in during the 70s and the Clinton era. Fortunately, America is back on track. We have a christian president who supports good clean morals. Do you know how long it's been since we've had that? 1988. It took twelve years to get the country back to its moral roots as the founding fathers intended. In 2008, we're going to have to keep the momentum going because all change for the positive is painful and too many people are losing faith right now. But all will be revealed in 2008 and God will surely come out the winner when a Republican wins the presidency.
Look jackass. You can't argue with yourself since it's not possible to be able to objectively maintain two or more views on a topic. Every human being has their written in stone personal values and belief systems and they can't be messed with. For example, I'm told that I'm a liberal so how in the hell would I be able to argue with myself since it's not possible for me to be able to even understand the "other side"? You're just not thinking when you post tripe like this.
...when you can do it for free? I patented the "multiple personality" troll when I used to be Trolling4Dollars (old of mine ID here). Let me give you a sample to show you how it's done.
Ummm... wait... Doesn't anyone think there are any serious risks sending 5 megawatts of power concentrated to one location? What if the beam becomes unstable and winds up burning a hole through the Earth much like a magnifying glass burns a hole through paper? With great power comes great responsibility and all that jazz...
Why are people so keyed up about features? In reality, how many new features in an OS are used when a new version is released? How many people actually make use of Microsoft's ability to publish apps (on a large scale) via Active Directory for example. We tried it where I work and the Windows admin decided it was too much of a pain in the ass both technically and licensing-wise. So instead we manage application deployment with the third-party app: Altiris. No matter how entrenched in Windows an organization is, it's unlikely that they make use of most of the features that MS touts in their OS. Some more than others, to be sure, but I doubt that outside of the MS campus there are more than a handful of organizations that use every feature that MS has to offer.
The sad truth is that the *nix/free/open software world usually has a lot more to offer and has had many features that MS touts as "new" and "innovative" for at least half a decade. Those who know, will relate to what I'm saying. And THAT is why Linux adoption is growing on the server end. On the desktop side... well Linux does have a LOT more to offer than MS currently does. But, getting a lot of it going requires more effort and aptitude than is required on Windows. Sadly, people seem far to content to go the "easy" route to get something these days. This is why Linux on the desktop has been running into roadblocks. I don't think that will change unless the Linux desktop folks find ways to:
-Organize functionality (both UI and underlying software and subsystems) -Provide GUI layers to manage all of the functionality above
This is something that I don't think is really possible because it's not an "itch" that any developer has. It's a user "itch". Just as an example, I make pretty extensive use of the Linux kernel's Network Block Device (NBD) features, it would be nice to see that at the desktop layer. To try and explain what it does just imagine being able to do this:
Add a new blank hard drive to you system. You can partition it if you want, or leave it unpartitioned. Once you've prepped it like that, you can then use NBD to export one or more unformatted partitions or drives to your network. Then on other systems, you can import any one of those NDBs and use it like a local disk. You could use it for as part of a RAID mirror set on a machine for example (with one half of the mirror pair residing on the NBD server and the other being the local HD or partition). Or you could do as I did and export your DVD drive so that any systems that don't have DVD drives can play DVDs.
Now imagine if you could do that all from GUI management tools as well as the command line. Gear heads like me would be happy doing it from the CLI so we could have total ultimate power. But more importantly, some Ubuntu (or other distro user) user could show his Windows using friend how his laptop's DVD drive is playable from any other Ubuntu box in the house without needing a media extender, and XBox or Windows Media Center. And that this is available in ANY version of Linux.
That's what's needed to put a hole in the whole argument that Linux isn't ready for the desktop. But, I don't expect to see it happen any time soon.
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Hey dingo brain... The point is that regardless of performance, if you are going 300 miles and you only use one gallon of gas, then you're doing much better than a conventional gas powered automobile Even if you want to be a total bean counter and factor in the cost of the electricity used to charge the batteries enough to make that 300 mile trip (which is stupid in my opinion) the fact is you will pollute less and use far fewer resources. Quit being such an arse ya bugger.
It's not electric. It's hybrid. So it still uses gasoline. Just not as much. RTFA.
Yeah... that's what we really want. The general public, airborne. Think about all the idiot drivers in SUVs that flip their vehicles regularly. Do you really want those mouth breathers FLYING? At high speed? If we ever do get flying cars (vertical take off and landing vehicles, or VTOLs), it won't be long before these VTOLs are slamming into the sides of office buildings (forget terrorists) and crashing through people's rooftops. Drunk flying anyone? Mid-air collisions? The only way I'd be OK with flying cars was if the average population not only had an IQ of 180 to start, but also had a really strong sense of REAL personal responsibility. That is to say, "Not only do I care about taking care of myself, but I care about the wellbeing of every human being that I am around". Until that happens (yeah right), I'll be casting my vote against the common neanderthal getting off the ground.
...that's where we were headed. What a stupid idea. It's like giving people PCs. They have more computing power than they actually need. They waste more power because it's inefficient. They cause more problems because they are clueless about maintaining their PCs and get rooted more times than I care to imagine. They are stupid enough to take their PCs in for repair at big box shops that employ neanderthal techs (not all of them, but most of them are stupid goons) and then pay an arm and a leg for a completely reformatted system at best and a poorly patched system at worst. But most of all, these people who seem to think they need all this computing power do VERY little with their systems and probably use about 3% of what the systems are capable of. Now apply that to local power generation paying attention to the fact that a reactor need fuel and careful maintenance:
They have more electrical power than they actually need. They waste more electrical power AND nuclear fuel because a reactor for a small group of homes is inefficient. They will cause more problems (explosions, radioactive contamination) because they are clueless about properly maintaining their nukes and will likely come very close to meltdowns more times than I care to imagine. They will be stupid enough to trust the repair and maintenance of their nukes to companies that will employ neanderthal techs who are poorly paid and have little care for making mistakes. (Hell, if a phone company can blow up a house by hitting a gas line [this happened in Strongsville Ohio in August 2007. Look it up.] and very likely shirk all responsibility, you can just imagine what the private sector will do with nuke maintenance) But most of all, these people who seem to think they need locally generated power for their cul de sac will like use VERY little of the power generated and the rest will be wasted in the name of convenience.
Yes, I believe that energy companies are vultures and most of the CEOs and administration in those companies should be lined up against a wall... But I also think that part of the equation to really being smart about electrical energy consumption comes down to conservation. Instead of Toshiba making nukes as a first line of energy crisis solutions, they should instead be working on ways to make their devices more power efficient. Even if it means INCONVENIENCE for the end user. ALL of the consumer electronic companies should be doing this. Make sure all devices actually turn completely off and drain NO power when a user is not using it. Make sure that all computing devices that need to have a saved state do so with solid state drives and better battery technology. Re-work home computing so that all you need is one central resource module that hosts CPU, RAM and storage and interacts with wireless devices that are the "terminals" or "thin clients" while still providing something that feels like a regular PC experience. Make sure that one central module does NOT run an OS at all, but simply hands out resources to the authorized devices. That way you can buy one decent unit that might last a decade instead of new PCs every two to three years. And GET USED TO INCONVENIENCE. It's better than destroying the planet. I'll happily ride the bus to work instead of drive if it means I'm one less polluter. (I do ride the bus to work for just that reason) If you can't bring yourself to inconvenience yourself, you've failed in your civic duty to others.
You're completely leaving out the whole Planet X factor and the Niburu race. I don't think the NEAs are as big of a threat as Planet X. And I'm pretty certain that this object that they're talking about is really Planet X but they're not telling us to prevent widespread panic. That object isn't headed for Mars, it's going to pass between Earth and Mars and then the Niburu invasion will begin. From what I've been reading online, the power elite on Earth have made deals with the Niburu to spare their lives and the lives of their families. But the average earth man is doomed to live a life of slavery in the Niburu slave service. If our time stream hadn't been screwed with back in the 50s, we'd be fine. Apparently we were a much more advanced civilization before the 1950s. Pretty much all the "history" that takes place before the earl 50s is artificial. We already had space colonies throughout the galaxy and were trading with other races. But then another alien race messed with our time stream and changed the direction of the human race on Earth from that point on. They cooked up this fake history which was then set as our backdrop. But some of us are still aware of what happened. We just no longer have the memory of our former civilization to be able to fix the problem. And now we're powerless to defend ourselves from the dreaded Niburu! We're doomed!
It's not an asteroid! It's Planet X! The Niburu are returning to enslave us all as has been predicted for centuries! There is a lot of good info out there on the internet about how the power elite on Earth have been in contact with the Niburu since some time in the 50s. Time has been manipulated and we've been fooled into thinking that where we are today is where we're supposed to be. But we were much more advanced technologically in the 1940s and 1950s until some of the other alien races started messing with our time stream. They've altered our reality and now we're powerless to defend ourselves against the Niburu. We're doomed! DOOMED!!!
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Come back when you grow some pubes kid... The name of the game is to get foed by Pudge.
What, pray tell, is that ASCII art supposed to be? It looks like Alice the Goon from the Moon (Popeye reference) riding a bike. Were you thinking of something more like this perhaps?
While natural language might seem like a good idea to people who are less technical, it's actually a really bad idea. It would slow a lot of things down in terms of search and would bring with it deep inefficiencies. Frankly, I think search engines would be improved if they offered advanced features with brief commands (kind of like how Unix abbreviates 'copy' as 'cp' or 'move' as 'mv'). For example, which do you think is better when you want to move quickly, a vehicle with wheels, or a bipedal vehicle with legs? The answer is obvious, wheels trump legs for speed. The same with language interfaces to computers. A middle language between machine and human language is the best approach. With a focus on efficiency and no ambiguity whatsoever. Loglan. There you go. move along...
But why stop at just OpenOffice? I've been running like this for years with Xvnc. If you're reasonably comfortable with Linux, know how to use OpenSSH to tunnel TCP traffic (poor man's VPN) and can get around in a gdm config file, then you can do this:
/etc/X11/gdm or /usr/share/gdm. The file is either custom.conf or defaults.conf respectively. Simply copy and paste the "Standard Server" section and change the command from X (with options) to Xvnc -localhost -SecurityTypes=None. Rename the section "VNCDesktop" Then replace the 0=StandardServer with 0=VNCDesktop. (Note this will prevent you from having a local X server running which means no GUI on the server. I run headless so that's fine, but if you want a GUI on your server, then start at 1= and leave the 0=StandardServer untouched) If you want more than one desktop for multiple users, set up, 1=VNCDesktop, 2=VNCDesktop and so on.
:1, and so on.
Prerequisites: OpenSSH server and client on app server, a Gnome desktop environment (can be kludged to work in KDE as well), VNC4 (to make sure you have the Xvnc server application)
1. Edit your Gnome gdm config file. Depending on your distro it could be in
2. Set up your tunneling info in either PuTTY (if you're stuck on a Windows platform) or OpenSSH ~/.ssh/config as follows:
*nix ~/.ssh/config:
host MyVNCServer
hostname your.internet.ip.or.hostname
User myusername
LocalForward 5910 localhost:5900
PuTTY:
In PuTTY, look under tunnels near the bottom of the configuration pane and set up a Local forwarding. Source should be 5910 and destination should be localhost:5900 (to connect to the VNC server run by 0=VNCDesktop). If you are using the server run by 1=VNCDesktop, then your forwarding should be 5911 localhost:5901 and so on. Save your settings and connect to the OpenSSH server.
3. Connect to the tunneled desktop with VNCViewer. Just launch it and point to the local port by typing ":0" for servers configured to run as 0=VNCDesktop. If you are using 1=VNCDesktop then point VNCViewer at
Enjoy... It's worked well for me for years with a minimum of fuss and no downtime. I can run any application I want. OpenOffice, Gimp a web browser, etc... The best thing of all is that it's encrypted and if you set it up inside your home network, you can access it from anywhere in the world with a network connection that doesn't block port 22 for SSH.
I live here. Oasis = Cleveland. It used to have more power and has always been more left. Now we're being murdered by the jackals down south.
Ahhh... you seem to be new here. There is a new language that is growing like a cancer. It's called iEnglish. In general it has only a few additional syntactical rules over standard English and a blatant disregard for classic English grammar. Accompanying that are also rules of engagement for internet forums:
1. If you are below a certain level of intelligence and you think it looks cool, do it. Example: Can u read this?
2. The rules of standard English are kind of stodgy and don't really hold up well in polls. Just use whatever you think works and most people will know what you mean even if you don't write it correctly. Also make sure to embrace Appalachionics since it has a warm and homey feel that makes you seem like someone people would want to have a beer with: My warshing machine needs fixed. Or... The nukyelar family is important above else all!
3. Make sure to avoid using more than one or two sentences per paragraph and no more than four paragraphs when writing stuff unless you want someone to think you're boring. Example:
a. Good writing:
"That guy's a troll. He sucks donkey dicks
It's a good thing we're on Digg. None of those crappy Slashdotters.
Go back to Slashdot you asshat."
b. Bad writing:
"Please don't feed the trolls. If you pay more attention to them, they'll keep coming back and lower the tone. The other fallout, is that we have more noise vs. signal if you insist on engaging the trolls. This has been a truism since the beginning of Usenet. I should know, I was there..." (Goes on for ten paragraphs with endless words that are boring, like "truism". WTF is a truism and why should we know?)
4. Make sure to nip any kind of conversation in the bud that isn't beer drinker friendly. The best way to do that is to instantly refer to the poster as a troll if they say something you don't like. The second best way is to invoke Godwin's law even if it doesn't really fit. The main is to keep people from talking about stuff that sucks. Remember, if it won't play on Spike TV, The SciFi Channel, or G4, then it shouldn't be on line either.
5. Always ALWAYS A-L-W-A-Y-S use pictures of videos instead of writing. It's so much cleaner and easier to understand than all that messy and archaic mucking about with text. All you need is a photo or video the presents what you want it to say, then a subject like "Amazing thing!!!!" and you're all set. You'll be communicating in the 21st century in ways that would have had Gutenberg himself breaking out into a cold sweat over.
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...this will stay legal for what? Five minutes? As soon as they're successful, this is going to be locked up tighter than a drum (as an old employer used to say). There won't be any namby pamby warm and fuzzy open community feelings for long. I see the end result being collusion by big pharma and their de-balled government lackies to outlaw this. Especially if it would mean "illegitimate" alternatives to big pharma. The companies that make medicine today aren't here to cure you. They're here to make a profit. And it that means making you and keeping you just sick enough to keep coming back for more, you can bet they won't want competition from people who actually might have your best interests at heart.
Disney's still alive? Last I heard, his brain was preserved in a vat of liquid at EPCOT center so that when science reached a point where they could revive it, it would be protected and ready to do their bidding. (Who "they" are is a mystery) Now, I've always been intrigued by this idea of preserving brains and bodies, etc... And I've always entertained the notion that with our limited knowledge of what is actually important in doing that, we may be merely pickling these individuals. When the day comes where we may be able to revive someone, it's entirely likely that the bodies and brains packaged in the past will be nothing better than a gherkin.
I've been working with a variety of tools for years and I have yet to see anything that can read data from a hard drive that's been zeroed out. Now... I'm not saying that it's impossible to get the data. I'm just saying that all the stories about the ability to see data on a platter that's been overwritten many times by reading faint magnetic signatures sounds like... well, a good story. I know that you mean they would be working with a copy, but your comment made me think of the stories I've heard of the FBI being able to recover data from drives that have been erased by the OS or had all bits filled with zeros repeatedly.
...Microsoft's work has nothing on the original memex as envisioned by Vanevar Bush in the 40s. Chances are they don't even credit him. Everything old is new again. Blah blah blah. Not to mention, I have a ton of innovative ideas in a set of text files at home that would probably put most of Microsoft's ideas to shame.
There's more to it than that. The real truth is that party allegiances by voters are as split as the general population. The end result: it is not possible to reach a consensus unless people are willing to let go of their core beliefs. This is an impossibility. Even if the liberals were to say, "OK. We'll let you conservatives make it illegal for gays to marry, but in exchange you need to assure us that we will never have prayer in schools". well... that just won't work for anyone, will it? Now I know that the next line of defense in these arguments are that these are "divisive" issues that are calculated to thwart the election process. But, in the end, this is also not true. If you're gay, and you want to get married, but the law is saying that you can't, you are an oppressed minority. If you're not a Christian and you want to start a Jainist prayer group in a small town high school under the suggestion that prayer is now allowed in schools, you're likely to be an oppressed minority once again. They might result in split opinions, but they're not really unimportant in the grander scheme of things. They are both slaps in the face to human rights. Human rights abuses if you will (and we thought that only happens in communist china).
I shouldn't have been surprised by that response. But I suspect you're not really a true conservative. Probably just a troll because of your overuse of typical right wing insults. A real right-winger would talk like that at all. And most conservatives I know don't think that our country is on the right track either. But hell, why should I care. People like you make the rest of society more likely to take my side. So keep it up. Your taking the sycophant's route is sure to do more good for liberals than harm. I should note that I'm not really a liberal at all. They don't have balls which is why they annoy the piss out of me.
Wow. You really need to lay off the Demoncrat koolaide. Your stupid is showing in large amounts. Let me illustrate for you. The first mistake you made in your post was to bring up the word "values". Mainly because moonbat liberals don't have ANY values. You guys want to desecrate holy matrimony by letting gays get married. As soon as the man boy love association wants to legalize their practices you'll probably back them too. That's why I don't like the godless direction America took under the liberal haze that set in during the 70s and the Clinton era. Fortunately, America is back on track. We have a christian president who supports good clean morals. Do you know how long it's been since we've had that? 1988. It took twelve years to get the country back to its moral roots as the founding fathers intended. In 2008, we're going to have to keep the momentum going because all change for the positive is painful and too many people are losing faith right now. But all will be revealed in 2008 and God will surely come out the winner when a Republican wins the presidency.
Look jackass. You can't argue with yourself since it's not possible to be able to objectively maintain two or more views on a topic. Every human being has their written in stone personal values and belief systems and they can't be messed with. For example, I'm told that I'm a liberal so how in the hell would I be able to argue with myself since it's not possible for me to be able to even understand the "other side"? You're just not thinking when you post tripe like this.
...when you can do it for free? I patented the "multiple personality" troll when I used to be Trolling4Dollars (old of mine ID here). Let me give you a sample to show you how it's done.
Ummm... wait... Doesn't anyone think there are any serious risks sending 5 megawatts of power concentrated to one location? What if the beam becomes unstable and winds up burning a hole through the Earth much like a magnifying glass burns a hole through paper? With great power comes great responsibility and all that jazz...
Why are people so keyed up about features? In reality, how many new features in an OS are used when a new version is released? How many people actually make use of Microsoft's ability to publish apps (on a large scale) via Active Directory for example. We tried it where I work and the Windows admin decided it was too much of a pain in the ass both technically and licensing-wise. So instead we manage application deployment with the third-party app: Altiris. No matter how entrenched in Windows an organization is, it's unlikely that they make use of most of the features that MS touts in their OS. Some more than others, to be sure, but I doubt that outside of the MS campus there are more than a handful of organizations that use every feature that MS has to offer.
The sad truth is that the *nix/free/open software world usually has a lot more to offer and has had many features that MS touts as "new" and "innovative" for at least half a decade. Those who know, will relate to what I'm saying. And THAT is why Linux adoption is growing on the server end. On the desktop side... well Linux does have a LOT more to offer than MS currently does. But, getting a lot of it going requires more effort and aptitude than is required on Windows. Sadly, people seem far to content to go the "easy" route to get something these days. This is why Linux on the desktop has been running into roadblocks. I don't think that will change unless the Linux desktop folks find ways to:
-Organize functionality (both UI and underlying software and subsystems)
-Provide GUI layers to manage all of the functionality above
This is something that I don't think is really possible because it's not an "itch" that any developer has. It's a user "itch". Just as an example, I make pretty extensive use of the Linux kernel's Network Block Device (NBD) features, it would be nice to see that at the desktop layer. To try and explain what it does just imagine being able to do this:
Add a new blank hard drive to you system. You can partition it if you want, or leave it unpartitioned. Once you've prepped it like that, you can then use NBD to export one or more unformatted partitions or drives to your network. Then on other systems, you can import any one of those NDBs and use it like a local disk. You could use it for as part of a RAID mirror set on a machine for example (with one half of the mirror pair residing on the NBD server and the other being the local HD or partition). Or you could do as I did and export your DVD drive so that any systems that don't have DVD drives can play DVDs.
Now imagine if you could do that all from GUI management tools as well as the command line. Gear heads like me would be happy doing it from the CLI so we could have total ultimate power. But more importantly, some Ubuntu (or other distro user) user could show his Windows using friend how his laptop's DVD drive is playable from any other Ubuntu box in the house without needing a media extender, and XBox or Windows Media Center. And that this is available in ANY version of Linux.
That's what's needed to put a hole in the whole argument that Linux isn't ready for the desktop. But, I don't expect to see it happen any time soon.
Oh my gawd... are you, like, fer real!!!?