I'll admit I've been able to pick up on the jargon that floats around here but you know, I haven't been able to figure out what wiki is for the moment. it may be that I'm tired or finals have drained me completely. would someone help?
it's all good. every time a company, phone company, school or govt agency tells me that I can not bring a recorrding device to record the audio...
I do anyways
I have every legal right to protect myself from an entity that places the burden of proof on myself and myself alone and by recording a conversation to use with my lawyers is a way to do that.
Sorry. I don't care what a school, office rules, agency's intents are... they _ALWAYS_ try to screw you in the end just to save their own asses.
For those not familiar with Marconi beyond his popular title as the inventor of the radio, one of the first surprises is that much of the story takes place in England and not Italy, due in no small part to the fact that Marconi's mother was Irish. Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy in 1874. He was raised there, and it was in Bologna that he laid the foundation for his future successes in the wireless business. While the existence of "Hertzian" waves was known before Marconi's work, and even though their use as a medium of communication was certainly being considered by others at the time, Marconi can be credited with key innovations that led to the first practical system of wireless telegraphy. In 1896 he traveled to England to popularize his wireless system, with the help of his mother's family connections. Thus it was England where Marconi launched his first wireless enterprise, and England remained his base of operations for the bulk of his career.
This is utter Bologna! I can't believe it!
as long as it's not annoying...
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CSS for the LDP?
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i've seen people use css to increase their font size 1 to 4 inches from normal with just a few keystrokes with no side effects. this is just irritating... I hope they don't make it flashy or with obnoxious colors.
damn, i've been reading too much spam!
Way too much time on their hands...
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PC In An XP Box
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The final step was to take an assembly language MBR boot loader program and modify it to read the state of the tilt switch and make it boot the partition containing Windows XP or the partition containing Linux. To those that don't know the secret of how it works it looks like magic. It boots the right O/S for the box it is in.
Is it just me, or do these guys have way too much time on their hands? I mean... what in the world do they hope to accomplish besides a (+5, HOLYSHIT) moderation?
They are a choice, and that's the beauty of it. Wegmans, walmart and the dozens of other stores that politely demand one for every time you want to pay with a check... no they can't make you do that. But they want to. A check is verified along the same lines your credit card is or debit card, just in paper form.
Hell, if you're like me you buy almost everything in cash, save the recipts and learn to manage your money correctly instead of happily going along bubbling down the isle with a cc, buying everything your heart desires.
Sorry but no, I won't be a tool for marketdroids or our overzealous privacy invading government. As for posting under my username... =) public library w/o logging into the computer to use the internet, and no cameras here (librarian is a best friend of mine).
"Darl is not acting in a manner befitting a moron"?
I strongly disagree.
To which I'll replace moron with Mormon, and he's got it right. I think the church should reprimand him with 'conduct unbecoming a member' for all these frivilous lawsuits and accusations.
they don't stand a chance in court and are full of shit anyhow.
signing an agreement that indemnifies the software creator and even gives them rights OVER you based on the use of their software is totally fucking gay!
I know this is offtopic but google doesn't help much lately.
I have a Serial ATA 150 drive, 80 gigs with WinXP loaded on it (sans 700mb hidden partition). I've used ghost to create an image. Here's the question:
Taking the second 80gig sata and creating a 700MB partition (hidden, primary.. end of disk), is there a way I can keep this **.gho file in the partition, give that hidden partition it's own boot instructions (ie. off the ghost 2004 cd) and setting up the first partitions boot loader (whatever works) with a password protected "reimage drive" option that I can use to reimage my first partition of the same hard drive?
Or am I not able to take the xx.gho file from the same physical disk and image the first partition meaning I have to load the image file from a foriegn disk?
Let me know, google hasn't been much help and my ghost 2004 documentation is limited i.e. I can't find it
For a while I gave my mom MDK 9.2 (now upgraded to 10) to get used to linux . Then I installed it dualboot. She never touched windows in the 3 months' she's used (linux) it. Sure I've had to add openoffice, mozilla too... but she's never had a problem either.
and only I have the root password: a 56 character password with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters all encrypted with my gpg key.
my mom can get at it, but i've told her I can do everything remotely and she really doesn't care otherwise. no problems, no fuss... no phonecalls at 3am PST when her computer at work or home is on the fritz (she's EST)
Now, what does Media Player have to do with the core OS? Nothing. It "merely" makes it useful.
It doesn't make the Operating System useful, it increases your interest and personal value in multimedia on your computer. BeOS was a perfect OS in my opinion (sanspreposition drivers) but there was a problem with it. Actually several. No media player that would play over 50% of the media types out there. No wmp, wma, real, ogg.. heck, even some mpegs wouldn't play; video or audio. Or, at least, no media player at the time.
The OS would die without most of these installed. I dont' like playing devils advocate, but revoking the "features" (just go along with me here) that most consumers (re: n00bs) use have been built in slowly over time giving people the functionality without the hassle. Want a messenger to talk to your friends? Wow, it's there! Want a media player? WOW! I dont' have to figure this out on my own!!
People are simple and that's why their (MS's) customers like them. They keep it simple and the learning curve down.
Just like the car analogy. You don't have to get your lisence by memorizing the firing order of the distributor cap and what kind of engine it is or define the pressure regulated by X valve for Y purpose. You have to use it properly and securely. Right?
/rant over.
Too bad MS doesn't design different versions of their modern OS's. I'd love an XP lite with nothing in it, where as I know many who would want the XP FULL to minimimize their own 'hassle' time looking for apps and installing them.
When did an operating system go from single functional piece of software, to multimedia home entertainment system?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for all the extras, but if I don't want them installed (and not just hidden) where the f is the option to not install it period? I.e., web browser, messenger, media player, insert ms crapware here.
Heck, just include a cd or links on a desktop with a "readme" doc somewhere explaining the differences and let the consumer chose between the three browsers (opera, moz, ie), messengers (msn, aim, gaim, icq) and media players (winamp, wmp, real, qt).
Not that hard people. Especially if they include the download links that download it with something like WGET for Windows. Really people it can be done so simply.
Tip to microsoft: Do it this way, you'll win kudos with the consumers and other people. Especially the decision makers and perhaps even us linux/foss/bsd/[insert alternate OS here] zealots as well.
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I'll admit I've been able to pick up on the jargon that floats around here but you know, I haven't been able to figure out what wiki is for the moment. it may be that I'm tired or finals have drained me completely. would someone help?
ENLARGE YOUR SHORT TERM MEMORY
If you're reading this, you know that men with small short term memory don't get ahead....
don't you mean that WOMEN don't get a HEAD?
*wink*
have you used the new nautilus yet?
if so, how could you describe it to someone who always turned off opening of a new window in explorer?
I am very interested in gnome 2.6, so any feedback you can personally give me would be very insightful.
mmm kernel 2.6, gnome 2.6 mmmm taaastey
All your stupidity belong to us...
/. readers minds?
In soviet russia, car drives YOU!
i wonder what other cliche's come to
it's all good. every time a company, phone company, school or govt agency tells me that I can not bring a recorrding device to record the audio...
I do anyways
I have every legal right to protect myself from an entity that places the burden of proof on myself and myself alone and by recording a conversation to use with my lawyers is a way to do that.
Sorry. I don't care what a school, office rules, agency's intents are... they _ALWAYS_ try to screw you in the end just to save their own asses.
-zoloto
Off topic I know, but hear me out..
/LAUGH!
Just your nickname alone "Steve Ballmer`s Fat" is enough to make me cringe, but your comment:
As a complete noob to Linux (GUI only person), Mandrake is/was the easiest to set up and use...
Sure is true to it's name.
(note to mods, I'm poking fun at the relation to his name and comment. be careful how you mod)
For those not familiar with Marconi beyond his popular title as the inventor of the radio, one of the first surprises is that much of the story takes place in England and not Italy, due in no small part to the fact that Marconi's mother was Irish. Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy in 1874. He was raised there, and it was in Bologna that he laid the foundation for his future successes in the wireless business. While the existence of "Hertzian" waves was known before Marconi's work, and even though their use as a medium of communication was certainly being considered by others at the time, Marconi can be credited with key innovations that led to the first practical system of wireless telegraphy. In 1896 he traveled to England to popularize his wireless system, with the help of his mother's family connections. Thus it was England where Marconi launched his first wireless enterprise, and England remained his base of operations for the bulk of his career.
This is utter Bologna! I can't believe it!
i've seen people use css to increase their font size 1 to 4 inches from normal with just a few keystrokes with no side effects. this is just irritating... I hope they don't make it flashy or with obnoxious colors.
damn, i've been reading too much spam!
The final step was to take an assembly language MBR boot loader program and modify it to read the state of the tilt switch and make it boot the partition containing Windows XP or the partition containing Linux. To those that don't know the secret of how it works it looks like magic. It boots the right O/S for the box it is in.
Is it just me, or do these guys have way too much time on their hands? I mean... what in the world do they hope to accomplish besides a (+5, HOLYSHIT) moderation?
They are a choice, and that's the beauty of it. Wegmans, walmart and the dozens of other stores that politely demand one for every time you want to pay with a check... no they can't make you do that. But they want to. A check is verified along the same lines your credit card is or debit card, just in paper form.
Hell, if you're like me you buy almost everything in cash, save the recipts and learn to manage your money correctly instead of happily going along bubbling down the isle with a cc, buying everything your heart desires.
Sorry but no, I won't be a tool for marketdroids or our overzealous privacy invading government. As for posting under my username... =) public library w/o logging into the computer to use the internet, and no cameras here (librarian is a best friend of mine).
ta ta
actually check out my post below, but the Gnome Liberation Front may have been involved!
Check out these stories!
Pretty cool eh?
It may have been the GLF. They've been causing problems in europe..
Now the internet? Guess I'm not the only one waiting for the new release!
FREE THE GNOME!!!
"Darl is not acting in a manner befitting a moron"?
I strongly disagree.
To which I'll replace moron with Mormon, and he's got it right. I think the church should reprimand him with 'conduct unbecoming a member' for all these frivilous lawsuits and accusations.
they don't stand a chance in court and are full of shit anyhow.
signing an agreement that indemnifies the software creator and even gives them rights OVER you based on the use of their software is totally fucking gay!
A new meaning comes to the name "iMac" doesn't it?
Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening.'
great! I always ask questions. nice... now I'm going to get even more grief!
For some reason, I read that as:
There's a WIMP in Windows?
I have to get more caffeene!
Damn, and I thought there weren't any slashdotters with common sence! Even as AC, I'll say "kudos to you"!
z
as opposed to + 0000000010.00000000000%
I know this is offtopic but google doesn't help much lately.
I have a Serial ATA 150 drive, 80 gigs with WinXP loaded on it (sans 700mb hidden partition). I've used ghost to create an image. Here's the question:
Taking the second 80gig sata and creating a 700MB partition (hidden, primary.. end of disk), is there a way I can keep this **.gho file in the partition, give that hidden partition it's own boot instructions (ie. off the ghost 2004 cd) and setting up the first partitions boot loader (whatever works) with a password protected "reimage drive" option that I can use to reimage my first partition of the same hard drive?
Or am I not able to take the xx.gho file from the same physical disk and image the first partition meaning I have to load the image file from a foriegn disk?
Let me know, google hasn't been much help and my ghost 2004 documentation is limited i.e. I can't find it
For a while I gave my mom MDK 9.2 (now upgraded to 10) to get used to linux . Then I installed it dualboot. She never touched windows in the 3 months' she's used (linux) it. Sure I've had to add openoffice, mozilla too... but she's never had a problem either.
and only I have the root password: a 56 character password with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters all encrypted with my gpg key.
my mom can get at it, but i've told her I can do everything remotely and she really doesn't care otherwise. no problems, no fuss... no phonecalls at 3am PST when her computer at work or home is on the fritz (she's EST)
fun fun
I didn't know they had all the links to ALL of the shocker sites i've ever heard of! DISGUSTING! UGH!
JUST SICK!
I could not have said it better.
You sir, kick ass.
Now, what does Media Player have to do with the core OS? Nothing. It "merely" makes it useful.
/rant over.
It doesn't make the Operating System useful, it increases your interest and personal value in multimedia on your computer. BeOS was a perfect OS in my opinion (sans preposition drivers) but there was a problem with it. Actually several. No media player that would play over 50% of the media types out there. No wmp, wma, real, ogg.. heck, even some mpegs wouldn't play; video or audio. Or, at least, no media player at the time.
The OS would die without most of these installed. I dont' like playing devils advocate, but revoking the "features" (just go along with me here) that most consumers (re: n00bs) use have been built in slowly over time giving people the functionality without the hassle. Want a messenger to talk to your friends? Wow, it's there! Want a media player? WOW! I dont' have to figure this out on my own!!
People are simple and that's why their (MS's) customers like them. They keep it simple and the learning curve down.
Just like the car analogy. You don't have to get your lisence by memorizing the firing order of the distributor cap and what kind of engine it is or define the pressure regulated by X valve for Y purpose. You have to use it properly and securely. Right?
Too bad MS doesn't design different versions of their modern OS's. I'd love an XP lite with nothing in it, where as I know many who would want the XP FULL to minimimize their own 'hassle' time looking for apps and installing them.
Does this make sense?
When did an operating system go from single functional piece of software, to multimedia home entertainment system?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for all the extras, but if I don't want them installed (and not just hidden) where the f is the option to not install it period? I.e., web browser, messenger, media player, insert ms crapware here.
Heck, just include a cd or links on a desktop with a "readme" doc somewhere explaining the differences and let the consumer chose between the three browsers (opera, moz, ie), messengers (msn, aim, gaim, icq) and media players (winamp, wmp, real, qt).
Not that hard people. Especially if they include the download links that download it with something like WGET for Windows. Really people it can be done so simply.
Tip to microsoft: Do it this way, you'll win kudos with the consumers and other people. Especially the decision makers and perhaps even us linux/foss/bsd/[insert alternate OS here] zealots as well.
-z