Three jobs ago I work for a VP for complained rather bitterly about the amount of toilet paper we were using. While making sure to look directly at the two women in the office (out of about 15 guys), he warned quite seriously that "theft or overuse" of toilet paper would cause him to restrict what was made available.
And yet, there are people who say Bush won and all is fair and good in the grand old USA...god. I'm up here in Canada (married to a sweet Alabama girl who left the US to be with me), watching the disintegration of a beautiful concept via apathy and greed.
Here's the questions I want answers to, in regard to the last election: - Were thousands of voters disenfranchised due to improper discounting of their right to vote (based on similar names to criminals)? It appears that we can say pretty definitely that the answer is yes. - Were there voting improprieties that gave nonsensical answers for final vote tallies? I'd say the -16022 vote count against Gore is a pretty good sign that this is the case. - Did the Supreme Court illegal (anti-constititionally) step in to make a decision in Florida? Again, the answer appears to be yes, based on the clarity of constitutional law.
Those three are enough for me to wonder why there aren't people screaming in the streets STILL! Can anyone give me a good counter to the above Q&As that has nothing to do with the individual personalities or leadership qualities of Bush or Gore?
I -never- expect to get ligitimate mail from Russia (though I have a friend in China). I run my own Postfix mailserver and SpamAssassin. Does anyone know how I can completely block out Russian IP addresses from sending mail to me?
Thanks! (and yes, I know that it won't solve all my spam problems)
I just want better taskbar support
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I want to be able to sort it manually or by group instead of by process ID. I want to be able to drag a taskbar item/window to my desktop switcher and have it show up there (instead of putting it on all windows, switching desktops, then putting it only on the second desktop).
Kickstart
I'm happy that I still run Win98SE when I reboot to play games. Too bad they will eventually stop supporting it with fixes for this sort of problem. When that happens I hope Linux game support (including Windows emulation) is much further along.
Ok, so now we know you're a thief, a coward, and a personal property vandal. Nice trifecta, asshat.
And people wonder why the average joe gets pissed off at the world.
Kickstart
The point there is that backups should be an intrinsic part of any computer experience, for -all- people using them. I think that this might be the direction M$ will go, making sure that if they can't block all the bad things that can happen to their product, at least they can easily recover from them.
If I had money at all (I don't) I'd be investigating in networkable backup storage device manufacturers.
A (workstation) distro review, in my opinion should involve at least the following:
- Install (ease, hardware detection) - Out of box security - Size of final install - GUI usability (with special attention to menus and organization) - GUI configurability - Security updates (immediate, long-term) - "one week later" - List of distro-specific software - Comparison to other distros with the same audience (prefer charts-based comparison)
I hope it doesn't force me to use that piece of crap GRUB, like the current one does. Of course, calling it a p-o-c is just my opinion. I just want -choice- of boot managers. GRUB does the job, but it's a real pain to recover if you screw up with it.
KS
Dunno about you, but I always drop my car out of gear and release the clutch when stuck in traffic. No point it using the clutch and two feet when a brake and one foot will do quite fine.
I wasn't always like that though...I burned out two clutches when I was first driving by 'riding' it. Doesn't happen to me any more, now that I drive differently.
As other people have pointed out, this is not new tech. When I worked up the west Canadian coast, we created ice in a carton of milk with this method.
I suspect there are plenty of examples of old tech becoming new again...river-powered pipe system to run cool water through homes, cooling them?
I'm currently looking at building a cordwood masonry house (AKA stackwall AKA stovewood masonry). I see no benefit to modern construction methods that isn't outweighed by lessened total cost of ownership over the life of the structure.
but at a certain point, maybe it's best for some people to not have such extreme treatments. It can mean a lifetime of problems. If it was my kid, I'd probably be fighting like mad to have the treatments, I know...but if it resulted in a long term pain and suffering, I'd feel guilty about it for the rest of my life.
HCareers.com just changed their website, but footwarecareers.com stole their entire look and feel (and I'm guessing some posted jobs) last year. Not sure if anyone did anything about it, or legal action will happen though.
I bet the Army pays about $3 for small arms fire targets. These are perfectly free and visibly shatter when shot. Rather than complain, the Army should request that they send more to make our fighting troops better shots!
I think this is a huge mistake, though very likely this will be a good thing got GA game fans. Another company will probably pick up the theme and do a game. I doubt they will do it better, but this may be the sign that GA games will be coming back. I doubt it is their deathknell.
who forced all 'freenet' BBSs in the early 90's to change their name or be sued? My local freenet became Vancouver CommunityNet, and I had to change my email address.
As I understood it, they were complete bastards about it.
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Have any countries given any indication that they are leaning in a direction for the vote?
I really want a satellite map of this.
Thanks!
KS
Sorry that your FREE services don't use it. Maybe you should pony up the $4.95 that some DNS services charge per year for 5 domains.
'Course, people on the internet hate paying for things.
KS
....Let's store the data in self-replicating prions!
Then "Mad Cow" becomes a Good Thing!
...when I learned that enabling hyperthreading was going to allow MS to charge twice for a single processor.
KS
Paper towels!?
Three jobs ago I work for a VP for complained rather bitterly about the amount of toilet paper we were using. While making sure to look directly at the two women in the office (out of about 15 guys), he warned quite seriously that "theft or overuse" of toilet paper would cause him to restrict what was made available.
Was very glad to leave that place.
KS
And yet, there are people who say Bush won and all is fair and good in the grand old USA...god. I'm up here in Canada (married to a sweet Alabama girl who left the US to be with me), watching the disintegration of a beautiful concept via apathy and greed.
Here's the questions I want answers to, in regard to the last election:
- Were thousands of voters disenfranchised due to improper discounting of their right to vote (based on similar names to criminals)? It appears that we can say pretty definitely that the answer is yes.
- Were there voting improprieties that gave nonsensical answers for final vote tallies? I'd say the -16022 vote count against Gore is a pretty good sign that this is the case.
- Did the Supreme Court illegal (anti-constititionally) step in to make a decision in Florida? Again, the answer appears to be yes, based on the clarity of constitutional law.
Those three are enough for me to wonder why there aren't people screaming in the streets STILL! Can anyone give me a good counter to the above Q&As that has nothing to do with the individual personalities or leadership qualities of Bush or Gore?
I -never- expect to get ligitimate mail from Russia (though I have a friend in China). I run my own Postfix mailserver and SpamAssassin. Does anyone know how I can completely block out Russian IP addresses from sending mail to me?
Thanks! (and yes, I know that it won't solve all my spam problems)
I want to be able to sort it manually or by group instead of by process ID. I want to be able to drag a taskbar item/window to my desktop switcher and have it show up there (instead of putting it on all windows, switching desktops, then putting it only on the second desktop). Kickstart
I'm happy that I still run Win98SE when I reboot to play games. Too bad they will eventually stop supporting it with fixes for this sort of problem. When that happens I hope Linux game support (including Windows emulation) is much further along.
And I will drive on them every opportunity I can, hoping that eventually doing so will beat them down into the soft asphalt.
Moderators...this was hardly a troll, it was an observation of some seriously screwed up behaviour posted here. Read the moderation guide.
I note that I got 'Troll', yet the O.P. didn't get 'flamebait' or even 'offtopic'.
Stealing is theft.
Throwing magnets at cars is self-defense? Were you expecting their density to slow them down before they hit you?
Ok, so now we know you're a thief, a coward, and a personal property vandal. Nice trifecta, asshat. And people wonder why the average joe gets pissed off at the world. Kickstart
The point there is that backups should be an intrinsic part of any computer experience, for -all- people using them. I think that this might be the direction M$ will go, making sure that if they can't block all the bad things that can happen to their product, at least they can easily recover from them.
If I had money at all (I don't) I'd be investigating in networkable backup storage device manufacturers.
A (workstation) distro review, in my opinion should involve at least the following:
- Install (ease, hardware detection)
- Out of box security
- Size of final install
- GUI usability (with special attention to menus and organization)
- GUI configurability
- Security updates (immediate, long-term)
- "one week later"
- List of distro-specific software
- Comparison to other distros with the same audience (prefer charts-based comparison)
I hope it doesn't force me to use that piece of crap GRUB, like the current one does. Of course, calling it a p-o-c is just my opinion. I just want -choice- of boot managers. GRUB does the job, but it's a real pain to recover if you screw up with it. KS
Dunno about you, but I always drop my car out of gear and release the clutch when stuck in traffic. No point it using the clutch and two feet when a brake and one foot will do quite fine.
I wasn't always like that though...I burned out two clutches when I was first driving by 'riding' it. Doesn't happen to me any more, now that I drive differently.
As other people have pointed out, this is not new tech. When I worked up the west Canadian coast, we created ice in a carton of milk with this method.
I suspect there are plenty of examples of old tech becoming new again...river-powered pipe system to run cool water through homes, cooling them?
I'm currently looking at building a cordwood masonry house (AKA stackwall AKA stovewood masonry). I see no benefit to modern construction methods that isn't outweighed by lessened total cost of ownership over the life of the structure.
but at a certain point, maybe it's best for some people to not have such extreme treatments. It can mean a lifetime of problems. If it was my kid, I'd probably be fighting like mad to have the treatments, I know...but if it resulted in a long term pain and suffering, I'd feel guilty about it for the rest of my life.
What does choline come from? Is it part of our foods, so that we could eat more of some weird vegetable?
HCareers.com just changed their website, but footwarecareers.com stole their entire look and feel (and I'm guessing some posted jobs) last year. Not sure if anyone did anything about it, or legal action will happen though.
I bet the Army pays about $3 for small arms fire targets. These are perfectly free and visibly shatter when shot. Rather than complain, the Army should request that they send more to make our fighting troops better shots!
Anyone else?
I think this is a huge mistake, though very likely this will be a good thing got GA game fans. Another company will probably pick up the theme and do a game. I doubt they will do it better, but this may be the sign that GA games will be coming back. I doubt it is their deathknell.
who forced all 'freenet' BBSs in the early 90's to change their name or be sued? My local freenet became Vancouver CommunityNet, and I had to change my email address.
As I understood it, they were complete bastards about it.