I second that. Very easy. I was never able to master the art of creating.deb's effortlessly in Debian/Ubuntu. In Gentoo I can whip up a 10 line ebuild that will fetch the source, patch it with whatever fixes for annoying things I care to (Such as making the preferences window resizeable again in Gaim - Damn you HIG nazi's), compile it, and install it in a minute or two. And I didn't need to browse a million tutorials with a million different ways of creating packages to do it. It just works.
Maybe he should point this VIP at the history of samba. Apparently Microsoft didn't think it was too amateurish to use his work when they implemented windows file sharing.
On the newsgroup among the discussions of my server someone had mentioned that there was a free client that might work with my server that Microsoft had put up for ftp. I downloaded it and found to my surprise that it worked first time with my `pathworks' server!
-- Andrew Tridgell (of the Samba team)
He made a unilateral decision to put us in Afghanistan, which most Canadians oppose very strongly
We were already in Afghanistan. We had to be there to honour our NATO obligations. I'm not sure who's idea it was to take a leadership role there, but it was Harper who then climbed up on the world stage and cried about how we couldn't handle it ourselves.
I hope the Liberals can turn things around, we need to get rid of these jokers.
the Premiers of Quebec, Ontario, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Alberta, and B.C. have all said stupid things in the last year or two that have pissed off others around the world
Yeah, but none of them picked any fights in a drunken rage at a homeless shelter that I remember.
I am sick and tired of people coming here and playing the Canadian government from two sides
Well it's fortunate that you aren't in a position of power. It's also fortunate that you aren't in a position to be tortured and beaten within an inch of your life. You can complain all you want about how this inconveniences you, but nobody deserves what he went through. It is the Canadian law that does not require him to forfeit his Syrian citizenship. Blame your politicians if you want to.
Maybe so, but Canada should not have the right to deny someone entry into Canada who they have granted Canadian citizenship. Whether or not he was asked to revoke his Syrian one is a separate topic. If we didn't think he was safe on the street, then we should have detained him here provided we had some valid reason to do that. I agree with you that dual citizenship is stupid, but it's not Maher Arar's fault.
Maher Arar is a 34-year-old wireless technology consultant. He was born in Syria and came to Canada with his family at the age of 17. He became a Canadian citizen in 1991. On Sept. 26, 2002, while in transit in New York's JFK airport when returning home from a vacation, Arar was detained by US officials and interrogated about alleged links to al-Qaeda. Twelve days later, he was chained, shackled and flown to Syria, where he was held in a tiny "grave-like" cell for ten months and ten days before he was moved to a better cell in a different prison. In Syria, he was beaten, tortured and forced to make a false confession.
U.S policies fucking over Canadian citizens (Maher Arar for example).
I really hate to be put in a position to defend the U.S. But the RCMP did hand him over to the U.S. and told him he was dangerous, then refused to let him back in to Canada after they questioned him and determined that he didn't have anything interesting to say. You can't really blame them for sending him to Syria when we refused to take him. Where else should they have put him?
Easy now. We just elected the biggest Israel cheerleader around. Even the Americans didn't jump right up and start yelling about Isreal being justified in obliterating Lebanon. Only Steven "Big Mouth" Harper would do something that dumb.
I hope we can get rid of that clown very very soon.
Yeah, because a guy who shoplifted 30 years ago is obviously of unscrupulous character and should be denied entry to our glorious Canada.
Why the hell not? The Americans have been denying people entry for stupid things like that for years. A friend of mine was turned back for a marijuana possession charge that he received as a minor, and that was before 9-11.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
At least the Liberal party didn't go shooting its mouth off about how Israel is justified and measured in turning Lebanon into a smoking crater over an unsanctioned kidnapping, and then turn around and pat itself on the back about doing it. The first goddamn thing they did when they got into office was cut all aid to the Palestinians. There is no victim in the middle east, both parties are equally guilty. Give both sides aid during peace times, and cut both off when the first bomb goes off.
Or when they sold us out on the softwood lumber situation which we were clearly in the right on.
Or spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying planes from the pentagon that could be built right here at home.
I'd rather the conservatives had just stolen money. There would be less of it ship south.
it's "programmers think they can do UI because UI is just another part of the program." They can't. Until the DE and app devs start realizing "oh shit, I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing with the interface, and I need to involve someone who does.", Linux won't ever crack the desktop market. XP and OSX are a decade ahead
Sure they can. The interfaces we have now in Linux are perfectly fine for me. I can't stand the bizarre set of config tools that exist in Windows. I love my text editor. To say that XP and OSX are a decade ahead, you have to assume that they are heading in the same direction. That may not necessarily be the case. Simply having the source code to the apps I use puts Linux in an entirely different league than the two you mentioned which they simply cannot compete in.
I'll say it again. Why should I care if Linux ever "cracks the desktop market"? That is something for the corporate players to do if it ever gets done. It's not on my agenda.
Stop wasting time thinking of ways to get your neighbours to accept Linux as their personal saviour from malware, and start teaching yourself C++ and get to work improving things.
The problem with that approach I think, is that by the time you become a competent C++ programmer, you no longer have the ability to see things the same way a "newbie" does. I want tonnes and tonnes of options in my applications. Newbies are afraid of those options, and don't know what half of them mean. I've come to a point where I really don't care if the masses convert or not. I prefer that they did, and I would recommend that they do, but I know from experience that preaching only leads to a LOT of phone calls from people with the stupidest questions (to me). I will never push Linux on anyone again.
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I second that. Very easy. I was never able to master the art of creating
I believe he meant this kind of power.
We were already in Afghanistan. We had to be there to honour our NATO obligations. I'm not sure who's idea it was to take a leadership role there, but it was Harper who then climbed up on the world stage and cried about how we couldn't handle it ourselves.
I hope the Liberals can turn things around, we need to get rid of these jokers.
Yes, you can tell that by the U.S. flag all over this topic. The politics theme is badly designed.
Yeah, but none of them picked any fights in a drunken rage at a homeless shelter that I remember.
Okay, thank you for playing. Please return to your home planet immediately.
Maybe so, but Canada should not have the right to deny someone entry into Canada who they have granted Canadian citizenship. Whether or not he was asked to revoke his Syrian one is a separate topic. If we didn't think he was safe on the street, then we should have detained him here provided we had some valid reason to do that. I agree with you that dual citizenship is stupid, but it's not Maher Arar's fault.
I think you mean our Prime Minister. Unless you're from Alberta, then most of what is said by the premier is both ignorant and malicious.
I hope we can get rid of that clown very very soon.
Who cares. Whatever it is, it is a very good thing.
At least the Liberal party didn't go shooting its mouth off about how Israel is justified and measured in turning Lebanon into a smoking crater over an unsanctioned kidnapping, and then turn around and pat itself on the back about doing it. The first goddamn thing they did when they got into office was cut all aid to the Palestinians. There is no victim in the middle east, both parties are equally guilty. Give both sides aid during peace times, and cut both off when the first bomb goes off.
Or when they sold us out on the softwood lumber situation which we were clearly in the right on.
Or spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying planes from the pentagon that could be built right here at home.
I'd rather the conservatives had just stolen money. There would be less of it ship south.
There's one thing worse than the republican party. That's the Tory party that wishes it was republican.
How many libraries of congress is that?
Sure they can. The interfaces we have now in Linux are perfectly fine for me. I can't stand the bizarre set of config tools that exist in Windows. I love my text editor. To say that XP and OSX are a decade ahead, you have to assume that they are heading in the same direction. That may not necessarily be the case. Simply having the source code to the apps I use puts Linux in an entirely different league than the two you mentioned which they simply cannot compete in.
I'll say it again. Why should I care if Linux ever "cracks the desktop market"? That is something for the corporate players to do if it ever gets done. It's not on my agenda.
The problem with that approach I think, is that by the time you become a competent C++ programmer, you no longer have the ability to see things the same way a "newbie" does. I want tonnes and tonnes of options in my applications. Newbies are afraid of those options, and don't know what half of them mean. I've come to a point where I really don't care if the masses convert or not. I prefer that they did, and I would recommend that they do, but I know from experience that preaching only leads to a LOT of phone calls from people with the stupidest questions (to me). I will never push Linux on anyone again.
In Soviet Russia, disks flopped you!
That's the problem with Windows. Until they get that stuff sorted, it will never be ready for the desktop.
French won't help me speak to the cab drivers in Edmonton, which would be more helpful to me. I'm not even sure what language that is.