Just while we're talking about dates - a story I submitted made it to the top of the Firehose, and is still "Pending" some three months after the fact. Is it normal for a submission to hang around that long?
My submissions normally get rejected within hours (and usually, someone else's semi-literate and over-sensationalised version gets accepted a week later) so I've no idea how long a story would normally be "pending".
Many, many of the horror stories I've read online about getting hardware to work have involved precisely that, in some cases down to dismantling hardware to see what the chipset is - down to, yes, serial numbers. I have no idea how old the 1.2 kernel is, but these are not ancient stories.
But did you see what just happened there? Three other questions in my comment, and you've picked up on one, responded in a way that basically says, "N00b!", and ignored the rest. That's coming dangerously close to the sort of attitude I referred to in my original comment - and it makes me want to stick with Windows - not because I don't want more of the same, but rather out of sheer spite. Just because you personally might not have had problems with hardware, that doesn't mean nobody else did. I'm surprised that someone who's been "working with Linuxen since the 1.2 kernel" hasn't come across someone who had these problems - unless you're the stereotypical blinkered fanboi type. You've got on your high horse, dismissed a very real concern of mine out of hand - and I've no reason to expect any better should I actually bite the bullet and install Linux.
In, what, two comments, we've gone from "I might just try this" to "fuck that". And people wonder why Linux hasn't taken over the world yet. Excellent work.
All right, cool. Thanks. I might just give this Ubuntu thing a try, then.
If I do decide that it isn't working out for me, how hard is it to switch to, say, RedHat or Suse? (Nuke-and-reinstall, or one - albeit obscure - command?) What sort of things might make me need to?
What do I need to know before blowing away the Win2000 install that's currently on there? Should I dismantle the machine and note serial numbers for all my hardware, or is that not necessary any more?
And already that's enough to scare me off. I don't know which one to go for, and don't want to get it wrong, because I assume that I'll only discover I'm wrong after investing several weeks or months of effort learning, and that changing from one to another will be a complete swine. (That said, a bad experience with the non-usability of several open-source apps - when work forced a Linux box on me four years ago - is still making me nervous about trying any Linux again.)
I'm beginning to consider giving it a go, and might go with Ubuntu, but I know just enough to worry about the unseen implications of any particular choice. My experience to date has been that asking for help with such a choice results in either outright fanboyism or a well-meaning but ultimately unconvincing "this one works for me, it'll work for you". (And that's ignoring the "rofl joo r 2 st00pid 4 LiNuX n00b g0 b4k 2 m$" idiots.) I have to be honest, it's the thought of stepping into that "community" that makes me most nervous of all, and it's stopping me from even trying Linux again. If there were just one Linux, I'd install it and see what happened; I'm not prepared to go through three or four Linuxes to see which is right for me, or to get my head bitten off by some 1337 jackass.
The number of distro choices *is* a problem. Maybe it'll be less so for Joe Public, now that big-name vendors are making machines with Linux - people will choose between "Windows" and "Linux", take whichever version of their choice they're given, and never trouble themselves with Ubuntu v Debian, or Basic v Ultimate Home.
Thank you for the helpful response this time round.
I manage pretty much OK with Flashblock and Firefox's own "block all images from..." option. Google ads and the like don't bother me particularly (except when someone styles them to look like navigation - that one got me yesterday).
My biggest worry with going down the Adblock route is whether sloppily-coded (i.e., most) layouts will break once the ads disappear. Have you had any problem with this?
They design the wing to take whatever nature'll throw at it, then test it to 150% of that. You can probably relax about the wing. Flexing is good, btw - a rigid wing would snap.
As for pulling down the flap, you're SOL on the 787 - apparently they're going to have fancy LCD dimmers on the windows, so no flap!
Still, as far as I can see, no indication that the parent post is below my threshold - meaning much confusion when trying to follow threads.
Anything but a direct reply to the article is indented and has a light grey "L" shape to the left (a tree link) indicating a link to the parent - but if the parent is below my threshold, it looks as if the child is linked to the comment above the parent. This leads to silliness like
Insightful post here | +- Re: Goatse
How about it, guys?
A simple icon change would make it clear that there's no relation between these two posts - perhaps a cross to show that there's no link:
See, there's your problem, right there. Get rid of all the management types, and you not only have more money to buy stuff, but also don't have them consuming gigawatts pratting about with PowerPoint!
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/. - upside-down "I followed the instructions linked from Slashdot" smiley...
Just while we're talking about dates - a story I submitted made it to the top of the Firehose, and is still "Pending" some three months after the fact. Is it normal for a submission to hang around that long?
My submissions normally get rejected within hours (and usually, someone else's semi-literate and over-sensationalised version gets accepted a week later) so I've no idea how long a story would normally be "pending".
Thanks, AC. That's exactly the sort of reassurance I was looking for.
Third paragraph. Read.
Many, many of the horror stories I've read online about getting hardware to work have involved precisely that, in some cases down to dismantling hardware to see what the chipset is - down to, yes, serial numbers. I have no idea how old the 1.2 kernel is, but these are not ancient stories.
But did you see what just happened there? Three other questions in my comment, and you've picked up on one, responded in a way that basically says, "N00b!", and ignored the rest. That's coming dangerously close to the sort of attitude I referred to in my original comment - and it makes me want to stick with Windows - not because I don't want more of the same, but rather out of sheer spite. Just because you personally might not have had problems with hardware, that doesn't mean nobody else did. I'm surprised that someone who's been "working with Linuxen since the 1.2 kernel" hasn't come across someone who had these problems - unless you're the stereotypical blinkered fanboi type. You've got on your high horse, dismissed a very real concern of mine out of hand - and I've no reason to expect any better should I actually bite the bullet and install Linux.
In, what, two comments, we've gone from "I might just try this" to "fuck that". And people wonder why Linux hasn't taken over the world yet. Excellent work.
All right, cool. Thanks. I might just give this Ubuntu thing a try, then.
:)
If I do decide that it isn't working out for me, how hard is it to switch to, say, RedHat or Suse? (Nuke-and-reinstall, or one - albeit obscure - command?) What sort of things might make me need to?
What do I need to know before blowing away the Win2000 install that's currently on there? Should I dismantle the machine and note serial numbers for all my hardware, or is that not necessary any more?
These are really n00b questions, I know...
IE is, indeed, droppings.
Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian?
And already that's enough to scare me off. I don't know which one to go for, and don't want to get it wrong, because I assume that I'll only discover I'm wrong after investing several weeks or months of effort learning, and that changing from one to another will be a complete swine. (That said, a bad experience with the non-usability of several open-source apps - when work forced a Linux box on me four years ago - is still making me nervous about trying any Linux again.)
I'm beginning to consider giving it a go, and might go with Ubuntu, but I know just enough to worry about the unseen implications of any particular choice. My experience to date has been that asking for help with such a choice results in either outright fanboyism or a well-meaning but ultimately unconvincing "this one works for me, it'll work for you". (And that's ignoring the "rofl joo r 2 st00pid 4 LiNuX n00b g0 b4k 2 m$" idiots.) I have to be honest, it's the thought of stepping into that "community" that makes me most nervous of all, and it's stopping me from even trying Linux again. If there were just one Linux, I'd install it and see what happened; I'm not prepared to go through three or four Linuxes to see which is right for me, or to get my head bitten off by some 1337 jackass.
The number of distro choices *is* a problem. Maybe it'll be less so for Joe Public, now that big-name vendors are making machines with Linux - people will choose between "Windows" and "Linux", take whichever version of their choice they're given, and never trouble themselves with Ubuntu v Debian, or Basic v Ultimate Home.
The Airbus A380 gets nicknamed the WhaleJet.
Boeing develops fuel from (essentially) plankton.
Thank you for the helpful response this time round.
I manage pretty much OK with Flashblock and Firefox's own "block all images from..." option. Google ads and the like don't bother me particularly (except when someone styles them to look like navigation - that one got me yesterday).
My biggest worry with going down the Adblock route is whether sloppily-coded (i.e., most) layouts will break once the ads disappear. Have you had any problem with this?
Yeah, I have Flashblock, actually. Doesn't mean I don't know an ad when I see one (or its placeholder), you smug smartass.
...and TFA has a Flash ad...
Can you change the User-Agent in IE?
From the largest site i have access to - a medical online shop
:P
Ah, it's you! Stop sending me email.
It'd have nice puppies, too!
1. Buy Ubuntu Dell.
2. Pirate Vista.
3. ??? There is no ???!
4. Profit!!!!
Da. Thank you for speedboat. Is nice.
Mine are pink with nails on the end.
Oh well, I guess this does for Victoria's Secret...
Scorpions on a Spaceship - where's Samuel L Jackson when you need him?
They design the wing to take whatever nature'll throw at it, then test it to 150% of that. You can probably relax about the wing. Flexing is good, btw - a rigid wing would snap.
As for pulling down the flap, you're SOL on the 787 - apparently they're going to have fancy LCD dimmers on the windows, so no flap!
Oh, and the ability to edit my posts when I put the "How about it, guys?" after the wrong ASCII-scribble.
Oh, and a pony. OMG ponies!
Still, as far as I can see, no indication that the parent post is below my threshold - meaning much confusion when trying to follow threads.
Anything but a direct reply to the article is indented and has a light grey "L" shape to the left (a tree link) indicating a link to the parent - but if the parent is below my threshold, it looks as if the child is linked to the comment above the parent. This leads to silliness like
Insightful post here
|
+- Re: Goatse
How about it, guys?
A simple icon change would make it clear that there's no relation between these two posts - perhaps a cross to show that there's no link:
Insightful post here
X
+- Re: Goatse
This is a blockquote with italics.
This is a quote.
This is a quote with italics. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
So when Germany wants to store data for six months, it's wrong.
When Google wants to store data for 18 months, that's okay.
Riiiiiiiight.
A recent public powerpoint presentation
See, there's your problem, right there. Get rid of all the management types, and you not only have more money to buy stuff, but also don't have them consuming gigawatts pratting about with PowerPoint!