I find it less stifling than the box that Gnome forces me into with their spatial interface and the requirement that I *must* edit obscure configuration files in order to fix it.
Uhhh...
Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> Always open in browser window
All u*x desktops, other than Apple, look way to clunky to me. I love love Linux more..... But how many of you leave the wives that you love to sleep with some slut? *sigh*
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I really like Gnome, and Apple's UI irritates me, because it gets in the way of the way I like to work. But I guess that's all part and parcel of the way Apple insists that you "think outside the box the way WE tell you to, dammit!".
Having said that, I like the way Apple integrates nicely into a *nix network without having to fuck around with Samba or other esoteric interfaces.
I'm not concerned about bacteria, but I do find a grubby keyboard unsightly and sometimes sticky.
My solution, rather than having to wait for a week for everything to dry after a sojourn in the dishwasher, is to take the back off the keyboard, allowing the actual key panels and the associated silicone or rubber film (the stuff through which the keys press on to the switches) to fall out. These may be easily scrubbed in the laundry trough with a brush and soapy water, then rinsed under the tap.
The excess water can then be towelled off before leaving the bits in a warm place for an hour or so to dry completely before putting it all back together.
The legal system? Did you see how after stealing more than $30,000 from the victim, the thief got 44 days in jail and probation? And this after she was ALREADY on probation? You call that justice?
Congratulations. First insightful post, right at the end of the page. Sometimes Slashbots have the attention span of a flea.
That is all well and good, but sitting there cogitating on post-modern ethical philosophy while someone is in the process of ripping off your gear or raping your daughter might indicate a certain lack of perspective.;-)
Justice includes following our own laws... if we can't even do that, I don't think we can claim to be very civilized.
Given how "justice" in many countries (not just the US) seems to favour the transgressor, I'm not sure that the word "civilisation" has any meaning in this context.
It doesn't really matter if someone filters mail into a spam bucket. The mail has been successfully delivered. The point is that all mail should actually be delivered to the addressee by default, not at the whim of an ISP making assumptions about whether the sender is friend or foe.
We're going about fighting spam the wrong way. We should just execute spammers (and maybe those who employ them) in the most painful, messy way that can be devised. Or maybe burn "THOU SHALT NOT SPAM" into their hides with a blow-torch.;-)
I actually had a copy of that.. probably still do somewhere. Funny stuff.
So do I, though only on floppy dicks(!) and I no longer have a drive for them. Nor do I have any interest in pursuing Xenix now that it is no longer my job to do so...
I am far from being a newbie at linux, since I have used Slackware since it was SLS, and many other distros in between, but my first experimental install of Feisty was such an abortion I ended up throwing it out. I was willing to believe the many who had had positive experience of it, but was eventually put off the whole idea by a series of issues starting with the fact that the apparently smooth and easy installation resulted in a machine that refused to boot without a lot of manual jiggery-pokery.
This was a result of the one-size-fits-all kernel (via initrd) doing stupid things with my multiple disk drives leading to a situation where it didn't know how to mount them at all. I guess that's where Slackware has it down - you just install a kernel that works with your drives, but never mind, I was prepared to live with the difference.
The final straw was when I found that the installation had left me without any of the tools or libraries I needed to build a new kernel, which I thought was a bit tacky. And when I had found them, surprise surprise, my new kernel (with the same config as I had used successfully before) refused to boot.
At that point, I lost interest, since the whole attraction in the first place was how easy it was all supposed to be, and Ubuntu just wasn't giving me that, so I junked it and went back to Slackware.
I have adblock installed, but I got the popup anyway. I found the way to get rid of it was to adblock http:///syscon.js which allows me to keep javascript enabled for those sites which don't abuse it.
Most of the journals I use (in the molecular and microbiology fields) are quite happy with submissions in TeX/LaTeX formats or MSWord formats. They don't care so long as the formatting is done appropriately for the article and conforms to their conventions such as referencing and general layout.
In other words, nothing to get wound up about, just get on with your job.
Hold it right there. I have met a few women in the course of my (relatively long in terms of Slashdot readership) lifetime who are happy and generous enough to go in for a jolly fuck here and there.
But I have never, NOT EVEN ONCE, found a lady whose ulterior motive was to check my filesystems.
...and all basically sound like windows playback, which is decent enough but not really good.
Agreed. Well, I don't know about Windows, but I get a lot better a signal from my (Linux) computer than I get from my iPod (with the same file encoded as 192 kb/s mp3), using the same headphones for both.
I don't worry about it, though, since the iPod doesn't get used in circumstances where high fidelity sound is that important, and also because I am well and truly old enough to remember the deficiencies of cassette tapes.
The Sennheiser PCX250 noise-cancelling headphones are also good for use away from home and where there is a lot of ambient noise. I use Sennheiser HD650 cans at home (much too expensive and obtrusive for the street), but the relatively cheap PCX250 performs very well with the noise cancelling switched on. However, if the NC is left off, they sound awful.
...and I couldn't tell the difference between them and a $100+ pair of BOSE headphones.
You probably wouldn't. Bose headphones (and most of their other devices) are way overpriced for what they are. Years back, there used to be a truism that went: "No highs, No lows, You know it's Bose".
Not to mention that Bill Gates personally recommended not so long ago that Australians *don't* buy the Zune. Not that I was even considering it, but still...
Makes me wonder if those 10^6 sales are dummy transactions through their accounts books...
I think you're confusing the distinction between theory and hypothesis. The former comes from the latter, but only after it has not been shown by every available means to be false.
By your own admission:
By the way, I'm a Christian, and one who holds to the young-earth ideas......I hate string theory, hope it dies a horrible painful death......My personal feeling is that both Evolution and Creation are non-science due to their subject matter...
...you appear to lack the objectivity required to be of any use in science, and I would advise you to abandon it and pursue a course of study more concordant with your abilities.
Just my.02 cents.
Well, you got that much right. 0.02 of a cent is a generous estimate of the value of your statements. BTW, I want everybody to take note how polite I'm being here, despite the strain.:-P
If you're getting hundreds or thousands of spam emails every day in your inbox, then you clearly should find some other means of communication as it would seem that email is too tricky and complicated for you.
Or else change your email address so that it isn't so easily hit by the dictionary-attack method. I used to use a nice 3-letter username@my_ISP.nnn address that everybody could remember and thought was really cool, and I had a frequent deluge of spam as a result. Eventually, I ditched it when I changed ISPs and adopted a userID that was less obvious and not that much longer, and the spam slowed to a trickle.
But instant messaging is (or should be). That constant chorus of "Uh Oh!" when working in a room full of other computer users is a serious distraction.
The only IM I use these days is Skype, in cases where I know the recipient is reasonably busy, but when I would like a response soonish rather than later.
Like a half-way thing between the interruption of a phone call and an an email that might never get seen...
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I find it less stifling than the box that Gnome forces me into with their spatial interface and the requirement that I *must* edit obscure configuration files in order to fix it.
Uhhh...
Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> Always open in browser window
Challenging stuff, evidently.
...must be very sad to be so alone, shunned and unloved. How tragic.
;-P
All u*x desktops, other than Apple, look way to clunky to me. I love love Linux more ..... But how many of you leave the wives that you love to sleep with some slut? *sigh*
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I really like Gnome, and Apple's UI irritates me, because it gets in the way of the way I like to work. But I guess that's all part and parcel of the way Apple insists that you "think outside the box the way WE tell you to, dammit!".
Having said that, I like the way Apple integrates nicely into a *nix network without having to fuck around with Samba or other esoteric interfaces.
I'm not concerned about bacteria, but I do find a grubby keyboard unsightly and sometimes sticky.
My solution, rather than having to wait for a week for everything to dry after a sojourn in the dishwasher, is to take the back off the keyboard, allowing the actual key panels and the associated silicone or rubber film (the stuff through which the keys press on to the switches) to fall out. These may be easily scrubbed in the laundry trough with a brush and soapy water, then rinsed under the tap.
The excess water can then be towelled off before leaving the bits in a warm place for an hour or so to dry completely before putting it all back together.
The legal system? Did you see how after stealing more than $30,000 from the victim, the thief got 44 days in jail and probation? And this after she was ALREADY on probation? You call that justice?
Congratulations. First insightful post, right at the end of the page. Sometimes Slashbots have the attention span of a flea.
That is all well and good, but sitting there cogitating on post-modern ethical philosophy while someone is in the process of ripping off your gear or raping your daughter might indicate a certain lack of perspective.
Justice includes following our own laws... if we can't even do that, I don't think we can claim to be very civilized.
Given how "justice" in many countries (not just the US) seems to favour the transgressor, I'm not sure that the word "civilisation" has any meaning in this context.
I may not have the wording exactly right (I think it was >25 years ago), but
PRIME computers happily talk to other computer systems. However, they sometimes have to talk slowly and use very short words.
It doesn't really matter if someone filters mail into a spam bucket. The mail has been successfully delivered. The point is that all mail should actually be delivered to the addressee by default, not at the whim of an ISP making assumptions about whether the sender is friend or foe.
;-)
We're going about fighting spam the wrong way. We should just execute spammers (and maybe those who employ them) in the most painful, messy way that can be devised. Or maybe burn "THOU SHALT NOT SPAM" into their hides with a blow-torch.
I actually had a copy of that.. probably still do somewhere. Funny stuff.
So do I, though only on floppy dicks(!) and I no longer have a drive for them. Nor do I have any interest in pursuing Xenix now that it is no longer my job to do so...
Things that help people migrate OFF Linux.
Except that anyone who has got used to Linux-esque ways of going about their business will not have any interest in these shenanigans...
I am far from being a newbie at linux, since I have used Slackware since it was SLS, and many other distros in between, but my first experimental install of Feisty was such an abortion I ended up throwing it out. I was willing to believe the many who had had positive experience of it, but was eventually put off the whole idea by a series of issues starting with the fact that the apparently smooth and easy installation resulted in a machine that refused to boot without a lot of manual jiggery-pokery.
This was a result of the one-size-fits-all kernel (via initrd) doing stupid things with my multiple disk drives leading to a situation where it didn't know how to mount them at all. I guess that's where Slackware has it down - you just install a kernel that works with your drives, but never mind, I was prepared to live with the difference.
The final straw was when I found that the installation had left me without any of the tools or libraries I needed to build a new kernel, which I thought was a bit tacky. And when I had found them, surprise surprise, my new kernel (with the same config as I had used successfully before) refused to boot.
At that point, I lost interest, since the whole attraction in the first place was how easy it was all supposed to be, and Ubuntu just wasn't giving me that, so I junked it and went back to Slackware.
I agree that NoScript works, but I found it to be almost as intrusive as the scripts.
I have adblock installed, but I got the popup anyway. I found the way to get rid of it was to adblock http:///syscon.js which allows me to keep javascript enabled for those sites which don't abuse it.
Most of the journals I use (in the molecular and microbiology fields) are quite happy with submissions in TeX/LaTeX formats or MSWord formats. They don't care so long as the formatting is done appropriately for the article and conforms to their conventions such as referencing and general layout.
In other words, nothing to get wound up about, just get on with your job.
Step one would be to look up a dictionary and find out what the word "pimp" (n or v) means.
Here's a typical one:
One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer. intr.v. , pimped , pimping , pimps
Now if the OP really wants to do that with his new home, I guess that's up to him, but I wonder how many of us are qualified to advise him...
The type of men women want to fsck and the...
Hold it right there. I have met a few women in the course of my (relatively long in terms of Slashdot readership) lifetime who are happy and generous enough to go in for a jolly fuck here and there.
But I have never, NOT EVEN ONCE, found a lady whose ulterior motive was to check my filesystems.
Which, I might add, suits me just fine.
...and all basically sound like windows playback, which is decent enough but not really good.
Agreed. Well, I don't know about Windows, but I get a lot better a signal from my (Linux) computer than I get from my iPod (with the same file encoded as 192 kb/s mp3), using the same headphones for both.
I don't worry about it, though, since the iPod doesn't get used in circumstances where high fidelity sound is that important, and also because I am well and truly old enough to remember the deficiencies of cassette tapes.
The Sennheiser PCX250 noise-cancelling headphones are also good for use away from home and where there is a lot of ambient noise. I use Sennheiser HD650 cans at home (much too expensive and obtrusive for the street), but the relatively cheap PCX250 performs very well with the noise cancelling switched on. However, if the NC is left off, they sound awful.
...and I couldn't tell the difference between them and a $100+ pair of BOSE headphones.
You probably wouldn't. Bose headphones (and most of their other devices) are way overpriced for what they are. Years back, there used to be a truism that went: "No highs, No lows, You know it's Bose".
Not to mention that Bill Gates personally recommended not so long ago that Australians *don't* buy the Zune. Not that I was even considering it, but still...
Makes me wonder if those 10^6 sales are dummy transactions through their accounts books...
I think you're confusing the distinction between theory and hypothesis. The former comes from the latter, but only after it has not been shown by every available means to be false.
...I hate string theory, hope it dies a horrible painful death... ...My personal feeling is that both Evolution and Creation are non-science due to their subject matter...
.02 cents.
:-P
By your own admission:
By the way, I'm a Christian, and one who holds to the young-earth ideas...
...you appear to lack the objectivity required to be of any use in science, and I would advise you to abandon it and pursue a course of study more concordant with your abilities.
Just my
Well, you got that much right. 0.02 of a cent is a generous estimate of the value of your statements. BTW, I want everybody to take note how polite I'm being here, despite the strain.
Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.
Same thing happens with mobile numbers... too many stalker girls get a hold of it
:-D
Where do you find them? That is one problem I've never had.
If you're getting hundreds or thousands of spam emails every day in your inbox, then you clearly should find some other means of communication as it would seem that email is too tricky and complicated for you.
Or else change your email address so that it isn't so easily hit by the dictionary-attack method. I used to use a nice 3-letter username@my_ISP.nnn address that everybody could remember and thought was really cool, and I had a frequent deluge of spam as a result. Eventually, I ditched it when I changed ISPs and adopted a userID that was less obvious and not that much longer, and the spam slowed to a trickle.
"Is email dead?"
No.
But instant messaging is (or should be). That constant chorus of "Uh Oh!" when working in a room full of other computer users is a serious distraction.
The only IM I use these days is Skype, in cases where I know the recipient is reasonably busy, but when I would like a response soonish rather than later.
Like a half-way thing between the interruption of a phone call and an an email that might never get seen...