Checkinstall is your friend. You'll never have to type "make install" again. Instead, run checkinstall at the "make install" stage, and it builds a package for your distro (it handles.rpm,.deb, and.tgz based distros) and installs it. You can then just use your distro's package management tool, in Slack's case pkgtool, to remove it at a later time.
I think it's in the extras directory on the second Slack CD, if memory serves correctly.
Who's going to be more hurt by that action? Lexmark or some poor sod trying to set up his printer on an operating system that no longer has support for it.
A better course of action would be to just get people you know to never, ever buy a Lexmark printer.
Here's the text of the update, they're on reserve servers at the moment, and I don't think they'll survive a Slashdotting as well as several thousand Goons trying to find out what's going on.
9/04/2005 - 10:07 AM - Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka
I finally got ahold of a Paypal customer support person this morning (when I called last night, their automated "screw off" system told me they were closed for the night). I explained everything to her and she asked me to fax in a bunch of junk like my driver's license, statement from my bank account, statement from my credit card account, and various other things. I guess I should be lucky they didn't ask for DNA and sperm samples as well.
I told them the only reason, and I repeat ONLY REASON I was using their service was to raise relief funds, and the representative made a comment along the lines of "well you can see how it's counter-productive to get this resolved when you're writing 'Paypal sucks' on your website." Gee lady, maybe the whole issue could've been resolved beforehand if your company actually gave a crap about their customers and made even the tiniest bit of effort to resolve things without immediately hitting the "off" switch like that one jerk from "Ghostbusters?" The representative herself was nice, and I don't have a problem with the people working there; I do, however, have a problem with their automated systems making arbitrary decisions without providing customers ANY time to rectify the situation without risking downtime / account closure. You don't run a business treating all your customers like criminals and making them prove they aren't.
I'll be faxing in that information right now, so the money you donated to the Paypal fund WILL get to the Red Cross, but it all depends on the speed of the world-famous Paypal Complaint Appeals Department or whatever the hell they're called.
It's obviously too late now, but it's nice to know that you can now buy new, replacement ZX Spectrum keyboard membranes. The people making them generally advertise on eBay if it helps.:)
Haha, my nephew wanted to see what computer games were like when I was his age, so I dug out my old ZX Spectrum 48k. You should have seen the disgusted look on his face when I started loading a game off of a tape.:)
This article is really lame, uninformative and about as funny as colon cancer.
I don't know. My dad had bowel cancer and had to have half of his colon removed (He's 100% recovered, btw!). We always say that he has a semicolon now, and that they did a really half-arsed job of the operation.
Hmm, I used to avidly read MAD as a kid/teenager, but I haven't bought a copy since about 90-92'sh. I was thinking about picking a copy up to see what it's like after all this time but, after reading your post, I don't think I'll bother.
Also, here's a copy of my/etc/fonts/local.conf which disables antialiasing on font sizes under 10 points, so you get nice crisp Windows style rendering on small fonts. I use Tahoma size 8 on my Gnome menus and it looks pretty sweet.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <include ignore_missing="yes">/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/ fonts.conf</include>
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Yeah, god forbid if you want to show someone three lines of code though. :)
Just use swaret to upgrade your box to either 10.2 or current. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
Fuck it. Beaten like a cheap whore.
Checkinstall is your friend. You'll never have to type "make install" again. Instead, run checkinstall at the "make install" stage, and it builds a package for your distro (it handles .rpm, .deb, and .tgz based distros) and installs it. You can then just use your distro's package management tool, in Slack's case pkgtool, to remove it at a later time.
I think it's in the extras directory on the second Slack CD, if memory serves correctly.
We always used to refer to S3 as "Shit Cubed".
Who's going to be more hurt by that action? Lexmark or some poor sod trying to set up his printer on an operating system that no longer has support for it.
A better course of action would be to just get people you know to never, ever buy a Lexmark printer.
Here's the text of the update, they're on reserve servers at the moment, and I don't think they'll survive a Slashdotting as well as several thousand Goons trying to find out what's going on.
9/04/2005 - 10:07 AM - Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka
I finally got ahold of a Paypal customer support person this morning (when I called last night, their automated "screw off" system told me they were closed for the night). I explained everything to her and she asked me to fax in a bunch of junk like my driver's license, statement from my bank account, statement from my credit card account, and various other things. I guess I should be lucky they didn't ask for DNA and sperm samples as well.
I told them the only reason, and I repeat ONLY REASON I was using their service was to raise relief funds, and the representative made a comment along the lines of "well you can see how it's counter-productive to get this resolved when you're writing 'Paypal sucks' on your website." Gee lady, maybe the whole issue could've been resolved beforehand if your company actually gave a crap about their customers and made even the tiniest bit of effort to resolve things without immediately hitting the "off" switch like that one jerk from "Ghostbusters?" The representative herself was nice, and I don't have a problem with the people working there; I do, however, have a problem with their automated systems making arbitrary decisions without providing customers ANY time to rectify the situation without risking downtime / account closure. You don't run a business treating all your customers like criminals and making them prove they aren't.
I'll be faxing in that information right now, so the money you donated to the Paypal fund WILL get to the Red Cross, but it all depends on the speed of the world-famous Paypal Complaint Appeals Department or whatever the hell they're called.
It's obviously too late now, but it's nice to know that you can now buy new, replacement ZX Spectrum keyboard membranes. The people making them generally advertise on eBay if it helps. :)
Haha, my nephew wanted to see what computer games were like when I was his age, so I dug out my old ZX Spectrum 48k. You should have seen the disgusted look on his face when I started loading a game off of a tape. :)
I have fond memories of Agnus and Denise. Although I seem to remember Agnus getting pretty fat towards the end.
So, did things ever work out with Derek and Lisa?
Back in the mid to late 80s and early 90s, I think my collection of music and ZX Spectrum games on D-90s single-handedly kept TDK in business.
Now, I can't even remember the last time I saw a cassette, let alone used one.
Yes. The report stated that, after the mouse regenerated, it looked slightly different and complained about it's new teeth feeling wierd.
Screw K9*, the FA stated that Elisabeth Sladen was coming back as Sarah Jane Smith. That's much better news!
* Figuratively of course.
"Using this computer requires a very special blend of psychology, and extreme violence."
I don't know. My dad had bowel cancer and had to have half of his colon removed (He's 100% recovered, btw!). We always say that he has a semicolon now, and that they did a really half-arsed job of the operation.
Those jokes never get old.
Not long 'til 13371337 :)
At least they'll learn how to Challenge Everything.
Damn right. When I was 6, I had a ZX81 and a book full of code. Only way to learn.
No one ever learned anything by clicking on pictures!
It used to be funny and clever.
Hmm, I used to avidly read MAD as a kid/teenager, but I haven't bought a copy since about 90-92'sh. I was thinking about picking a copy up to see what it's like after all this time but, after reading your post, I don't think I'll bother.
I'll bet most of that spam is Linux and Mac users sending him copies of hello.jpg.
Also, here's a copy of my /etc/fonts/local.conf which disables antialiasing on font sizes under 10 points, so you get nice crisp Windows style rendering on small fonts. I use Tahoma size 8 on my Gnome menus and it looks pretty sweet.
/ fonts.conf</include>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<include ignore_missing="yes">/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d
<match target="font">
<test name="size" compare="less">
<double>10</double>
</test>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="pixelsize" compare="less" qual="any">
<double>10</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
If you're using a Debian based distro, you can run:
:)
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
And then select the bytecode interpreter from the menu. Fixed.
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