was Linux for Dummies a long time ago. It got me up and running, that was it. After that I got sick of Redhat's RPM hell and switched to Debian. My problem with that book was that it just showed me very basic stuff, none of the cool stuff that I wanted to do, like getting into the guts and figuring out what all the files mean, where they sit, and what they do. I don't think they even got into compiling software, which I think would be a pretty important thing for beginners, especially if you want to install programs and such. All that's available via man and Google. Google's the Linux for Dummies who don't mind pecking around the net for tips. I feel the beginners should begin with debian and not redhat - I feel that it's easier to learn with. Besides, if you're only going to play around on the web and read an email or two, does it really matter?
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Eh, well, not when you mod your x-box with a 12,000 watt psu and figure, "What the hell, these controller cables can handle the load." I'm dead now. Incidentally, I'm writing this from Hades where all the shift keys have been removed from computers and I'm forced to read EULAs for the rest of eternity.
Would this have anything to do with people like my friends and me throwing massive chunks of ice into the fryers while working at Wendy's in high school? There's nothing quite like watching (and hearing) a deep fryer exploding with gigantic scalding bubbles of grease. However, I'm thinking your water-diluted grease gets the water after it's cooled.
"THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, before the dawn of man as we knew him, there was 3COM, an ape-like corporation making crude and pointless NICs out of dinobones and it's own waste, hurling them at IBM employees with crinkled hands. These so-called "NICs" were buried as witches, and defecated upon, and hurled at predators when wakened by the searing grunts of children. It wasn't a holly jolly DEF CON that year. For many were sued." -- Cybernetic Ghost of Networking Past From The Future
Who the hell came up with the name? Meatwad? On the otherhand, he does got the money, see, so he can afford a tablet pc. Rumor has it the original version was made from an empty box of Cheerios and a strawberry until Frylock intervened. I don't have any proof of this because Shake ruined my proof with his anger.
Dude, that's the funniest thing I've read today. And I'd totally date you, but my IQ is four. I'm typing this with a toothbrush that's stapled to my head.
I use my gmail account as my swap partition. It's fully searchable and displays helpful advertisements every time I load fifty tabs in Firefox and OpenOffice goes idle. I don't know what I'd do without it. I'd probably be less of an unfunny jackass.
If your view of mainstream America includes suburbs in the midwest, I'd say it's catching like wildfire. I don't have any hard stats (of course), but several younger families I know in greater metro Minneapolis/St. Paul have been signed up for this for several years. A couple of IRC pals in Aurora and other suburbs in Chicago swear by it. I'd love to use it, but they don't deliver to friggin apartments. But, in my neighborhood I don't blame 'em. Other than the risk of having them stolen, I'd hate to open up my bin one day and find two loafs: one wheat, and another pinched by the local indigents.
Now that I've had a full night to calm down;-), I understand where you're coming from. Two quick notes: 1) Trying to cater to the fans is what ruined Star Trek, and 2) I'm glad we agree on one point. Add'l note: I thought I was the only one who was sick of bowl cut kids. At least Anakin wasn't wearing a backwards baseball cap, right? You gotta give Lucas that much.
ridiculous references to modern times, like themeing the pod race like a nascar race, with stupid anachronistic quotes. Nascar? More like chariot races of Roman times.
more in-jokes referencing tv programs, like anakin saying "there's nothing to see here" a la police stereotype at a crime scene What else would you expect him to say? Something cool like "Some friend"?
the removal of the wonder and mysticism of the force by explaining it scientifically, n.b. "midichloreans". This has the effect of forcing the viewer to treat everything that happens as having a real scientific reason, and there are plenty of ridiculous happenings that cannot be explained this way. The midichlorians only allow people to interact with the force, they are not the source. Besides, you're kind of repeating your previous point.
atrocious over acting on the part of Hayden Christensen and Euan McGregor. Hayden for his emotionless portrayal, and McGregor for blatantly trying to retrofit McGuinness's voice style and coming off sounding like he's holding in a sh*t the whole time. Oh, like Leia pointing to a star destroyer and blandly saying, "Star destroyer," isn't emotionless...or the millions of times Luke overacts his youthful exuberance or wannabe venerable Jedi calm attitude?
that ridiculous "bowl" haircut on young anakin. Can't we have one american movie without a bowl-haircut child in it, please? Luke's haircut throughout was a friggin bowl. And how about Han's fun little hairdo? Another bowl.
no nekkid carrie fisher. Natalie Portman in a torn form fitting suit will do in a pinch.
mind-numbing script. need I go on? Please do. I haven't seen a single thing you mentioned that's not visible in the holy trilogy, script included. Come on man, Vader's "No disintegrations" isn't cheesy? Everything's lifted from something else, from "You must learn the ways of the force," to the emperor's "You want this..." to Luke, it was all awful, disgusting, and stolen. But because it was so friggin cool, I ate it all up and continue to do so. Unlike some people, I still watch Star Wars through the eyes of a child and treat it as such. It doesn't have to make perfect sense and mesh with the laws of physics. All it has to do is give me an environment where I'm willing to suspend my disbelief. Nothing will come close to Star Wars. Nothing.
Now the application is called "hymn", or "hear your music anywhere"...
I would have called it "hyman" because it makes more sense. Then again, if the program crashed on you, I guess you'd have a busted hyman, so I see where they're coming from on that.
By then you'll be saying, "I am still waiting for 3D displays to drop to make it work the switch from my trusted CRT.";) The space savings alone were worth the $1100 for three 17" LCDs to replace three 19" CRTs, not to mention the drop in the power bill. It's also a lot more comfortable in the summer. The switch to OLED, however, will be a harder sell. Right now these guys hold up nicely for editing video and for the occasional gaming marathon (although only one is used when I'm getting pummeled at CS). Instead of reading manufacturer specs and reviews, I'll have to see for myself exactly how much brighter and more responsive OLEDs are than LCDs before I'll consider shelling out bucks for them.
Ah, jeez. We just had a post regarding buzzwords and their annyonace/dangers. Here we go again with a round of theorizing based on the latest tech craze to hit the mass media. I can't wait for this to develop into the umpteenth bad science Hollywood blockbuster. I can see the pitch now: "And there's this ship that's made out of nano-titties, and it's the only way to make it into the Earth's core or else the climate will shift from nano-blizzards from nano-stars and cause a nano-age of nano-ice. Now gimme my 100 mill or I'll nano-size your penis."
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was Linux for Dummies a long time ago. It got me up and running, that was it. After that I got sick of Redhat's RPM hell and switched to Debian. My problem with that book was that it just showed me very basic stuff, none of the cool stuff that I wanted to do, like getting into the guts and figuring out what all the files mean, where they sit, and what they do. I don't think they even got into compiling software, which I think would be a pretty important thing for beginners, especially if you want to install programs and such. All that's available via man and Google. Google's the Linux for Dummies who don't mind pecking around the net for tips. I feel the beginners should begin with debian and not redhat - I feel that it's easier to learn with. Besides, if you're only going to play around on the web and read an email or two, does it really matter?
I'm typing this from my 30-foot yacht whilst surrounded by a dozen models in skimpy bikinis. You, too, can have this success with my easy way of buying virtual real estate with zero money down. Bad credit, no credit, no problem! With my proven plan, you can make your entire yearly salary five hundred times over in just one second by following a few easy steps. Soon you will become a master of MMORPG real estate!
A testimony from Ralph:
My first deal, a nice lake front property on Dagobah in Star Wars: Galaxies, netted me five hundred million dollars!
Sign up now! Just email me at suckers@scam.tv for your free seminar schedule!
Actually, I believe they were using Microsoft Air, aka Longhorn.
Eh, well, not when you mod your x-box with a 12,000 watt psu and figure, "What the hell, these controller cables can handle the load." I'm dead now. Incidentally, I'm writing this from Hades where all the shift keys have been removed from computers and I'm forced to read EULAs for the rest of eternity.
Logic never stopped Homer from snaking grease, why should it stop me?
Water gets in after the frying is over. Trust me, you don't want to deep fry with water in the pan. Unless you have a thing for masks and such.
Would this have anything to do with people like my friends and me throwing massive chunks of ice into the fryers while working at Wendy's in high school? There's nothing quite like watching (and hearing) a deep fryer exploding with gigantic scalding bubbles of grease. However, I'm thinking your water-diluted grease gets the water after it's cooled.
"THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, before the dawn of man as we knew him, there was 3COM, an ape-like corporation making crude and pointless NICs out of dinobones and it's own waste, hurling them at IBM employees with crinkled hands. These so-called "NICs" were buried as witches, and defecated upon, and hurled at predators when wakened by the searing grunts of children. It wasn't a holly jolly DEF CON that year. For many were sued."
-- Cybernetic Ghost of Networking Past From The Future
doesn't go out. Therefore, I don't really see a problem here.
Say all you will, but Optimus is still the ultimate prime.
I hope you can see this because I'm doing it as hard as I can.
Who the hell came up with the name? Meatwad? On the otherhand, he does got the money, see, so he can afford a tablet pc. Rumor has it the original version was made from an empty box of Cheerios and a strawberry until Frylock intervened. I don't have any proof of this because Shake ruined my proof with his anger.
Dude, that's the funniest thing I've read today. And I'd totally date you, but my IQ is four. I'm typing this with a toothbrush that's stapled to my head.
I use my gmail account as my swap partition. It's fully searchable and displays helpful advertisements every time I load fifty tabs in Firefox and OpenOffice goes idle. I don't know what I'd do without it. I'd probably be less of an unfunny jackass.
Yep. I'd say within a third or even fourth degree. Whichever one is the degree that means the flesh has burnt from your bones, that's the one.
If your view of mainstream America includes suburbs in the midwest, I'd say it's catching like wildfire. I don't have any hard stats (of course), but several younger families I know in greater metro Minneapolis/St. Paul have been signed up for this for several years. A couple of IRC pals in Aurora and other suburbs in Chicago swear by it. I'd love to use it, but they don't deliver to friggin apartments. But, in my neighborhood I don't blame 'em. Other than the risk of having them stolen, I'd hate to open up my bin one day and find two loafs: one wheat, and another pinched by the local indigents.
This 'pimp skillet' E-40 refers to, is it available at Denny's?
Now that I've had a full night to calm down ;-), I understand where you're coming from. Two quick notes: 1) Trying to cater to the fans is what ruined Star Trek, and 2) I'm glad we agree on one point. Add'l note: I thought I was the only one who was sick of bowl cut kids. At least Anakin wasn't wearing a backwards baseball cap, right? You gotta give Lucas that much.
ridiculous references to modern times, like themeing the pod race like a nascar race, with stupid anachronistic quotes.
Nascar? More like chariot races of Roman times.
more in-jokes referencing tv programs, like anakin saying "there's nothing to see here" a la police stereotype at a crime scene
What else would you expect him to say? Something cool like "Some friend"?
the removal of the wonder and mysticism of the force by explaining it scientifically, n.b. "midichloreans". This has the effect of forcing the viewer to treat everything that happens as having a real scientific reason, and there are plenty of ridiculous happenings that cannot be explained this way.
The midichlorians only allow people to interact with the force, they are not the source. Besides, you're kind of repeating your previous point.
atrocious over acting on the part of Hayden Christensen and Euan McGregor. Hayden for his emotionless portrayal, and McGregor for blatantly trying to retrofit McGuinness's voice style and coming off sounding like he's holding in a sh*t the whole time.
Oh, like Leia pointing to a star destroyer and blandly saying, "Star destroyer," isn't emotionless...or the millions of times Luke overacts his youthful exuberance or wannabe venerable Jedi calm attitude?
that ridiculous "bowl" haircut on young anakin. Can't we have one american movie without a bowl-haircut child in it, please?
Luke's haircut throughout was a friggin bowl. And how about Han's fun little hairdo? Another bowl.
no nekkid carrie fisher.
Natalie Portman in a torn form fitting suit will do in a pinch.
mind-numbing script. need I go on?
Please do. I haven't seen a single thing you mentioned that's not visible in the holy trilogy, script included. Come on man, Vader's "No disintegrations" isn't cheesy? Everything's lifted from something else, from "You must learn the ways of the force," to the emperor's "You want this..." to Luke, it was all awful, disgusting, and stolen. But because it was so friggin cool, I ate it all up and continue to do so. Unlike some people, I still watch Star Wars through the eyes of a child and treat it as such. It doesn't have to make perfect sense and mesh with the laws of physics. All it has to do is give me an environment where I'm willing to suspend my disbelief. Nothing will come close to Star Wars. Nothing.
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Now the application is called "hymn", or "hear your music anywhere"...
I would have called it "hyman" because it makes more sense. Then again, if the program crashed on you, I guess you'd have a busted hyman, so I see where they're coming from on that.
I'd be wary of buying a $2000 display with a lifetime of seventeen minutes.
Tell me about it. I spent $2000 for seventeen minutes of bliss. I wish I was wary before my purchase. Or was it a rental?
By then you'll be saying, "I am still waiting for 3D displays to drop to make it work the switch from my trusted CRT." ;) The space savings alone were worth the $1100 for three 17" LCDs to replace three 19" CRTs, not to mention the drop in the power bill. It's also a lot more comfortable in the summer. The switch to OLED, however, will be a harder sell. Right now these guys hold up nicely for editing video and for the occasional gaming marathon (although only one is used when I'm getting pummeled at CS). Instead of reading manufacturer specs and reviews, I'll have to see for myself exactly how much brighter and more responsive OLEDs are than LCDs before I'll consider shelling out bucks for them.
Maybe. Personally, I think Windows is easy because it has low self-esteem and a bad coke habit.
Ah, jeez. We just had a post regarding buzzwords and their annyonace/dangers. Here we go again with a round of theorizing based on the latest tech craze to hit the mass media. I can't wait for this to develop into the umpteenth bad science Hollywood blockbuster. I can see the pitch now: "And there's this ship that's made out of nano-titties, and it's the only way to make it into the Earth's core or else the climate will shift from nano-blizzards from nano-stars and cause a nano-age of nano-ice. Now gimme my 100 mill or I'll nano-size your penis."
Perhaps that extra 625KB could be used to store a sense of humor :)