Well, gee. Maybe you should only support computer hardware that is built with common multi-sourced parts, like the 7400 series of TTL chips. You sound like a purchasing agent. Are you sure you're not the one blocking us from getting PCs that have USB ports on them? (recently you've been requiring the vendors to put black electrical tape over the connector or receiving refuses to let them off the dock)
If the Green Party gets labeled a terrorist group (which some in the Bush administration already have), I don't want my driving history subponead.
I read that and first thought you'd said 'If the Green Party got power' (lord help us!). I can see heavy fines imposed by Greenies against people who speed, drive unnecessarily, etc.
speed limit was 55, so I set it to 60 and stayed in the middle lane. I still had people tail gating me.
I remember reading in a tech magazine somewhere about somebody who installed a device of some sort that would dribble a little gravel out of the trunk under driver control when needed for signalling tailgaters to back off.
I've often thought it would feel good to have something back there that would spray out a bit of brake fluid (it dissolves the paint on cars). Not enough to create a road hazard, but enough to fuck up that proud owner's muscle car, probably without tardboy even noticing until later.
And brake fluid is something that's bound to leak out once in awhile. It doesn't seem malicious like paint stripper or acetone would.
I find it disappointing that in the article summary no mention is made of the fact that this Cygwin X11 server will run on all the Win32 platforms. I looked at it and said to myself 'well, there's the motivation to "upgrade" to XP' but was hopeful. And yes, the page at Cygwin says 'Cygwin/XFree86 runs on all recent consumer and business versions of Windows'.
Is this a case of unconcious shilling for the Microsoft version upgrade treadmill? I hope so.
On a few occasions I've cut my track ball or mouse open and used trace cuts and jumper wires to make it into a 'natural' left handed mouse. There are control panel settings in most windowing software to do this for you, but not that often on games, particularly older classics like Heretic (which I still occasionally enjoy playing). There's also some satisfaction in telling right handers who use the machine that they need to go into the control panel and switch the mouse to use it right handed.
Except for a few homeless people, who are now living in their car, I can't think of a market for this product. Nobody I know wants to 'rip' their Audio CDs in their car.
Automobile audio systems are generally meant as playback systems. You do all the futzing around to set up 'playlists' in the comfort of your home, then drop it in the Car's sound system when you're driving.
This sounds awkward at best. When I've 'ripped' CDs into the hard drive out in the car, how do I edit out the tracks I don't want? How are play lists constructed? It seems like just another thing on the dashboard to distract the driver.
At what temperature is one cubic centimetre of water equal to one gram?
Where did this pure water come from? Why should we base a practical system of measurement on a ratio of chemically pure water mass/volume at some arbitrary temperature?
The Metric system is fraught with contradictions and arbitraryness. i.e.: I'm sorry, base ten is not the ultimate numbering system, and it's certainly not significant enough to base all units of measure on. One would think that computer geeks, if anybody, would recognize that.
This kind of topic points out how irrational and arbitrary the idea of an 'edict based' system of units really is.
The people who imposed the Metric System on France after the French Revolution did try to impose a certain measure of 'time improvement' on the world, in that they tried to renumber the years starting from the dawn of the 'new era' of post Revolution France. I believe they may have even tried to redivide the year into ten months.
I can just see it now, some bureaucrats in the EU... trying to coerce the earth into revolving around the sun in 100 days. Maybe they'd settle for a 1000 day year. We could adjust the seasons or something. Anything is possible when a committee is designing reality.
Back in the days when 256Kx1bit DRAM chips were in the $8-15 apiece price range, I used to buy salvage circuit boards at surplus stores to melt off and reuse the RAM chips. If you think the smell of a burning PC is nasty, use a blowtorch sometime to melt out DIP chips. I had to wear a face mask.
I have a friend who is a heavy smoker. She is the only person I know who has had two computers fail in such a way that the Power Supply goes overvoltage and destroys all the components in the system when the 5V rail becomes something much higher. It's a real disaster, as nothing, not even the floppy drive, survived in either instance.
She gets really defensive about her smoking, but my feeling is all the airborne contaminants, oils and tars, etc. in the power supply made the voltage regulator go bonkers. General rule is for them to be designed to go out when they fail. Hers sure didn't.
You're insane. Microsoft would not, and will not, waste their time writing software that runs on top of X. If they come out with a desktop environment for Linux, you can be guaranteed it'll be like Apple's GUI on OSX. It'll be a complete rewrite, without all the legacy mess that X (sadly) imposes.
Just in case you've never read the history of Raymaond's CATB essay, it was written originally as a polemic directed toward the fairly closed 'Cathederal' way certain applications like GNU Emacs were written. Similar to the tight teams that code NetBSD and FreeBSD.
To quote from Raymond himself: "I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the 'cathedral' model of FSF (Editors note: I assume FSF stands for the 'Free Software Foundation') and its imitators versus the 'bazaar' model of the Linux world. "
The number of people who now seem to have forgotten the CATB essay was written to address issues within the Free Software Community and not as an attack on Commercial software is staggering. It's almost like Raymond himself wants the original context of the essay to fade away.
OS/2 had an emulation layer that allowed it to run Windows 16 bit apps. What that accomplished was it took away all motivation to write native OS/2 productivity apps. That was one of the things that killed OS/2.
If you made hundreds of 'legal' copies of a music CD (for your 'own personal use' of course,) then left them in the front room of your house with the door unlocked and a 'Please don't take these, nudge nudge' sign with an arrow out on the sidewalk, I think you'd find yourself in court.
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An excellent way for the publishers to shut down the libraries would be to encourage the trend to shove them full of PCs and Internet Terminals, and cut back on the book purchasing budget.
Once the Library is just a terminal room, what's the use in continuing to have it?
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weather or not you agree with Steve Jobs being a control freak, he did get the company back in the black.
And Mussolini made the trains run on time in Italy.
Well, gee. Maybe you should only support computer hardware that is built with common multi-sourced parts, like the 7400 series of TTL chips. You sound like a purchasing agent. Are you sure you're not the one blocking us from getting PCs that have USB ports on them? (recently you've been requiring the vendors to put black electrical tape over the connector or receiving refuses to let them off the dock)
If the Green Party gets labeled a terrorist group (which some in the Bush administration already have), I don't want my driving history subponead.
I read that and first thought you'd said 'If the Green Party got power' (lord help us!). I can see heavy fines imposed by Greenies against people who speed, drive unnecessarily, etc.
speed limit was 55, so I set it to 60 and stayed in the middle lane. I still had people tail gating me.
I remember reading in a tech magazine somewhere about somebody who installed a device of some sort that would dribble a little gravel out of the trunk under driver control when needed for signalling tailgaters to back off.
I've often thought it would feel good to have something back there that would spray out a bit of brake fluid (it dissolves the paint on cars). Not enough to create a road hazard, but enough to fuck up that proud owner's muscle car, probably without tardboy even noticing until later.
And brake fluid is something that's bound to leak out once in awhile. It doesn't seem malicious like paint stripper or acetone would.
I find it disappointing that in the article summary no mention is made of the fact that this Cygwin X11 server will run on all the Win32 platforms. I looked at it and said to myself 'well, there's the motivation to "upgrade" to XP' but was hopeful. And yes, the page at Cygwin says 'Cygwin/XFree86 runs on all recent consumer and business versions of Windows'.
Is this a case of unconcious shilling for the Microsoft version upgrade treadmill? I hope so.
Ya don't see many mouse mods,
On a few occasions I've cut my track ball or mouse open and used trace cuts and jumper wires to make it into a 'natural' left handed mouse. There are control panel settings in most windowing software to do this for you, but not that often on games, particularly older classics like Heretic (which I still occasionally enjoy playing). There's also some satisfaction in telling right handers who use the machine that they need to go into the control panel and switch the mouse to use it right handed.
Except for a few homeless people, who are now living in their car, I can't think of a market for this product. Nobody I know wants to 'rip' their Audio CDs in their car.
Automobile audio systems are generally meant as playback systems. You do all the futzing around to set up 'playlists' in the comfort of your home, then drop it in the Car's sound system when you're driving.
This sounds awkward at best. When I've 'ripped' CDs into the hard drive out in the car, how do I edit out the tracks I don't want? How are play lists constructed? It seems like just another thing on the dashboard to distract the driver.
At what temperature is one cubic centimetre of water equal to one gram?
Where did this pure water come from? Why should we base a practical system of measurement on a ratio of chemically pure water mass/volume at some arbitrary temperature?
The Metric system is fraught with contradictions and arbitraryness. i.e.: I'm sorry, base ten is not the ultimate numbering system, and it's certainly not significant enough to base all units of measure on. One would think that computer geeks, if anybody, would recognize that.
The French also came up with the philosphy of Marquis DeSade in that era. Plus prolific use of the guillotine, etc.
The Metric system is arbitrary. The Imperial system evolved to be what it is based on need.
We are already sort of using binary. Look at an Imperial system ruler. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16.
Whereas those foolish metric people are stuck on the fact that humans have ten fingers. Sheesh, that's pretty darn arbitrary.
This kind of topic points out how irrational and arbitrary the idea of an 'edict based' system of units really is.
The people who imposed the Metric System on France after the French Revolution did try to impose a certain measure of 'time improvement' on the world, in that they tried to renumber the years starting from the dawn of the 'new era' of post Revolution France. I believe they may have even tried to redivide the year into ten months.
I can just see it now, some bureaucrats in the EU... trying to coerce the earth into revolving around the sun in 100 days. Maybe they'd settle for a 1000 day year. We could adjust the seasons or something. Anything is possible when a committee is designing reality.
The smell of a burning PC is very nasty.
Back in the days when 256Kx1bit DRAM chips were in the $8-15 apiece price range, I used to buy salvage circuit boards at surplus stores to melt off and reuse the RAM chips. If you think the smell of a burning PC is nasty, use a blowtorch sometime to melt out DIP chips. I had to wear a face mask.
Those were the days....
I have a friend who is a heavy smoker. She is the only person I know who has had two computers fail in such a way that the Power Supply goes overvoltage and destroys all the components in the system when the 5V rail becomes something much higher. It's a real disaster, as nothing, not even the floppy drive, survived in either instance.
She gets really defensive about her smoking, but my feeling is all the airborne contaminants, oils and tars, etc. in the power supply made the voltage regulator go bonkers. General rule is for them to be designed to go out when they fail. Hers sure didn't.
The real fashion question should be:
Does anybody really care that you've gotten a pizza stain on that ragged holey 'Maximum RPM' shirt they gave you for free at the LUG meeting?
'Fashion for slouching over a keyboard' just hasn't ever seemed very exciting to me.
I bet all the kids are gonna go for that cool came the FSF has come up with. It has a name that conjures up images of action and fighting.
Unfortunately the glamor will wear off fast, probably after a few minutes of staring at the prompt blinking at them.
So the trick is to post your defamatory content on an obscure website, and let it sit there for a year before linking to it from a popular website.
Interesting. I bet there are 'teams' out there already setting up the obscure websites.
Does the httpd on my dialup NetBSD box count as a 'website' in this ruling? I'll just park my slander there for a year to let it ripen.
With all the expenses that you list, it's a wonder at all that CheapBytes can sell so many Linux/BSD Distro CDs for under $5 apiece.
You're insane. Microsoft would not, and will not, waste their time writing software that runs on top of X. If they come out with a desktop environment for Linux, you can be guaranteed it'll be like Apple's GUI on OSX. It'll be a complete rewrite, without all the legacy mess that X (sadly) imposes.
Just in case you've never read the history of Raymaond's CATB essay, it was written originally as a polemic directed toward the fairly closed 'Cathederal' way certain applications like GNU Emacs were written. Similar to the tight teams that code NetBSD and FreeBSD.
To quote from Raymond himself: "I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the 'cathedral' model of FSF (Editors note: I assume FSF stands for the 'Free Software Foundation') and its imitators versus the 'bazaar' model of the Linux world. "
The number of people who now seem to have forgotten the CATB essay was written to address issues within the Free Software Community and not as an attack on Commercial software is staggering. It's almost like Raymond himself wants the original context of the essay to fade away.
Microsoft could make Linux run on the X-Box for well under $200,000 in investment.
To collect the $200,000 prize, they would have to release said code under the GPL.
OS/2 had an emulation layer that allowed it to run Windows 16 bit apps. What that accomplished was it took away all motivation to write native OS/2 productivity apps. That was one of the things that killed OS/2.
I thought that telemarketers were required to use directories of numbers to do their business, that they couldn't just dial sequential numbers.
Otherwise, why the heck do I pay extra each month for an unlisted number?
If you made hundreds of 'legal' copies of a music CD (for your 'own personal use' of course,) then left them in the front room of your house with the door unlocked and a 'Please don't take these, nudge nudge' sign with an arrow out on the sidewalk, I think you'd find yourself in court.
An excellent way for the publishers to shut down the libraries would be to encourage the trend to shove them full of PCs and Internet Terminals, and cut back on the book purchasing budget.
Once the Library is just a terminal room, what's the use in continuing to have it?
By "us" he means 'The Linux community.'
Malda feels he is an upstanding member of said community, and that some of you roughnecks are gonna make him and the guys in suits look bad.
It's a sign that he's 'growing up.' Possibly the shock of one of his boyhood idols passing away last week is a factor in this.