How about an unobtrusive implant as powerful as a modern workstation, wired to your nervous system, controlled by neural impulses and running the latest version of Windows?
Yeah I was absolutely gobsmacked when I discovered that to do an NFS install of Debian I'd need SEVENTEEN floppies!!!!!!!!!! 17, man! 17 floppy disks to achieve what Redhat and Mandrake do in one!!!!
to tell to an american, referring to the DMCA, the USA is clearly way down the list.
I mean, if in this posting I explain that using a felt marker one can circumvent the copy protection on certain audio CDs thus allowing them to be ripped to mp3, I am breaking the law in the USA and if I ever visit america (heavens forbid) I could be arrested -- for something I typed up in New Zealand!! Heck, the USA could probably even get me deported.
Pre-911 CIA world factbook appeared to show that the USA had less than 1% of its total gross population 'fit for military service' that was a little under 2 millon yanks. The lowest any other country sunk was 10%.
Considering that the UK could manage 12 million, maybe the UK should consider re-occupying its recalcitrant colony?
I'm sure Canada could march in and take over, and if they laid on free hamburger & internet no American in their right mind would object!
Interestingly, post 911 that particular section of the world factbook read "Not Available". I guess they just didn't want OBL thinking he could just walk in and take over, turning the USA into an islamic protectorate. 8)
Lots of the to-and-fro on this topic has been about debian and new users and how debian is definitely not for novice users and suchlike.
And thats perfectly good reasoning.
But I am *no* newbie to Linux. I first installed Soft Landings on a 386 back in '92 and have been with Linux ever since, and I have huge problems getting debian installed, let alone *using* it!
Ok so the install process is a dog as installers go, but thats not the worst part of it; the worst part for me has been that the install process frequently just doesnt work *at* *all*,
not that its arcane, archaic or whatever; it JUST DOESN'T WORK sometimes, on some machines in some scenarios. And thats true of all distros to a greater or lesser extent. Mandrake to a lesser extent, in my experience, redhat a little more, debian a lot more.
For example, I have a machine with a CD writer, IDE, slave on the primary controller. Shows up as/dev/hdb if I don't tell the kernel hdb=ide-scsi at boot time & load the modules, as/dev/scd0 if I do.
The debian CD boots fine, starts trying to install... and can't find any media on the CD.
I try a network install; I have a M$ machine running IIS so I copy the debian CD's to the ftp server and try an ftp install; doesn't work because the debian CDs have *symlinks* which are *needed* by the installer...
Now thats almost as dumb as redhat screwing up gcc, kde and mp3 support.
I've successfuly installed debian on the occasional machine, but the sort of problem I described above is not uncommon.
For those who would argue that debian is a distro for advanced Linux users who want more control over their systems, I would argue that Linux from Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org) would be a *far* better option than debian.
With a bit of scripting (which the advanced user should find a breeze) one could compile up ones own distro, *and* install the debian package management system (if one should so wish) overnight. Almost as fast as installing debian...
Want control over your system? Want a lean, mean system thats got just what you want and nothing else? Why go debian? Its not even *easier* than Linux From Scratch!:)
that reads "Masturbating is *not* allowed in a public library!"
Well, *American* libraries apparently need such signs, since its not illegal to surf bestiality & child porn at the local library.
Its even *illegal* for libraries to stop that sorta naughtiness (the surfing, not the wanking; its probably ok for a librarian to stop someone jacking off. In the library).
Oh yeah and its Iraq, North Korea and Libya who are on the axis of evil isnt it?
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
One of the gnarliest things about managing the back-end of a large render farm is dealing with the damn licenses!
Those wranglers are going to feel truly blessed;)
As I recall, the US navy captain who ordered an Iranian airbus (full of civilians) shot down because it might have been an Iranian F14 (with no known capacity to damage an aegis cruiser),was never disciplined in any way whatsoever.
Ok so US military personel *frequently* exhibit exemplary behavior.
However, when they don't there are rarely any legal actions taken against them.
Industrialisation is great for material productivity.
However, the efforts to apply industrialisation to;
Warfare: eg the mechanisation of warfare, turning the battlefield into a factory of devastation.
Education: eg the factory-like layout of schools, children lined up in neat rows all working on the same thing, the production-line style exam systems.
Music: need I say more?
has worked in the sense that they have made some people extremely wealthy,
but have failed the human race dismaly.
The only way up is down...
1. I tell Norton internet security that 1214 is a web port so it filters for ads & viruses.
2. I run XP and log in as an unpriviledged user and deny myself write access to the directories where Kazaa keeps its advertising.
Works for me!:-P
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How about an unobtrusive implant as powerful as a modern workstation, wired to your nervous system, controlled by neural impulses and running the latest version of Windows?
Its because TWM is one of the most memory inefficient WMs that exists.
FVWM was originally based on the TWM source; the main change was the way mouse bindings were handled.
All by itself this increased the memory efficiency by an order of magnitude. IIRC
Yeah I was absolutely gobsmacked when I discovered that to do an NFS install of Debian I'd need SEVENTEEN floppies!!!!!!!!!!
17, man! 17 floppy disks to achieve what Redhat and Mandrake do in one!!!!
Linux from scratch is actually easier to install than Debian, and you get to compile everything with whatever compiler optimisation flags you want.
Linux from Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org)
is *way* easier and faster to install than Debian!
Now theres a savage indictment of a distribution...
stood for something else...
Di-something.
yeah but I think you have to have more than one printing press to count...
Wouldn't water ice provide decent radiation shielding?
Or even just liquid water, if it melts in the sun.
It'd also provide decent ablative armor against laser weapons... not that any one would be *shooting* at it of course.
'Trash in Video out' or something?
lets see, 24fps, 600 lines per frame,
thats 14400 punch cards per second.
My guess is that it'd catch fire after about
a minute... from the friction.
Also, on a related note, are you some kind of sick tree-killer?????
to tell to an american, referring to the DMCA,
the USA is clearly way down the list.
I mean, if in this posting I explain that using a felt marker one can circumvent the copy protection on certain audio CDs thus allowing them to be ripped to mp3, I am breaking the law in the USA and if I ever visit america (heavens forbid) I could be arrested -- for something I typed up in New Zealand!!
Heck, the USA could probably even get me deported.
Free speech in the USA?
I don't think so.
something as subversive as that in the USA.
I mean, disparaging the freedom-loving nation of america; that *must* have al-qaida behind it.
:-\
Or the other way around.
Pre-911 CIA world factbook appeared to show that the USA had less than 1% of its total gross population 'fit for military service' that was a little under 2 millon yanks. The lowest any other country sunk was 10%.
Considering that the UK could manage 12 million, maybe the UK should consider re-occupying its recalcitrant colony?
I'm sure Canada could march in and take over, and if they laid on free hamburger & internet no American in their right mind would object!
Interestingly, post 911 that particular section of the world factbook read "Not Available".
I guess they just didn't want OBL thinking he could just walk in and take over, turning the USA into an islamic protectorate.
8)
then M$ will post armed guards at the borders to keep xboxen from being imported. Like they are about to do with Australia.
Lots of the to-and-fro on this topic has been about debian and new users and how debian is definitely not for novice users and suchlike. And thats perfectly good reasoning. But I am *no* newbie to Linux. I first installed Soft Landings on a 386 back in '92 and have been with Linux ever since, and I have huge problems getting debian installed, let alone *using* it! Ok so the install process is a dog as installers go, but thats not the worst part of it; the worst part for me has been that the install process frequently just doesnt work *at* *all*, not that its arcane, archaic or whatever; it JUST DOESN'T WORK sometimes, on some machines in some scenarios. And thats true of all distros to a greater or lesser extent. Mandrake to a lesser extent, in my experience, redhat a little more, debian a lot more. For example, I have a machine with a CD writer, IDE, slave on the primary controller. Shows up as /dev/hdb if I don't tell the kernel hdb=ide-scsi at boot time & load the modules, as /dev/scd0 if I do.
The debian CD boots fine, starts trying to install... and can't find any media on the CD.
I try a network install; I have a M$ machine running IIS so I copy the debian CD's to the ftp server and try an ftp install; doesn't work because the debian CDs have *symlinks* which are *needed* by the installer...
Now thats almost as dumb as redhat screwing up gcc, kde and mp3 support.
I've successfuly installed debian on the occasional machine, but the sort of problem I described above is not uncommon.
For those who would argue that debian is a distro for advanced Linux users who want more control over their systems, I would argue that Linux from Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org) would be a *far* better option than debian.
With a bit of scripting (which the advanced user should find a breeze) one could compile up ones own distro, *and* install the debian package management system (if one should so wish) overnight. Almost as fast as installing debian...
Want control over your system? Want a lean, mean system thats got just what you want and nothing else? Why go debian? Its not even *easier* than Linux From Scratch! :)
Why would you want to do *anything* without editing a text file?
8-|
Would you rather edit a database? Maybe a registry?
that reads "Masturbating is *not* allowed in a public library!" Well, *American* libraries apparently need such signs, since its not illegal to surf bestiality & child porn at the local library. Its even *illegal* for libraries to stop that sorta naughtiness (the surfing, not the wanking; its probably ok for a librarian to stop someone jacking off. In the library). Oh yeah and its Iraq, North Korea and Libya who are on the axis of evil isnt it? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
One of the gnarliest things about managing the back-end of a large render farm is dealing with the damn licenses! Those wranglers are going to feel truly blessed ;)
awwwww no portable barbeques in the theater? :(
As I recall, the US navy captain who ordered an Iranian airbus (full of civilians) shot down because it might have been an Iranian F14 (with no known capacity to damage an aegis cruiser),was never disciplined in any way whatsoever. Ok so US military personel *frequently* exhibit exemplary behavior. However, when they don't there are rarely any legal actions taken against them.
yeah BUT robocop had a human brain!!!!!
Industrialisation is great for material productivity. However, the efforts to apply industrialisation to; Warfare: eg the mechanisation of warfare, turning the battlefield into a factory of devastation. Education: eg the factory-like layout of schools, children lined up in neat rows all working on the same thing, the production-line style exam systems. Music: need I say more? has worked in the sense that they have made some people extremely wealthy, but have failed the human race dismaly. The only way up is down...
1. I tell Norton internet security that 1214 is a web port so it filters for ads & viruses. 2. I run XP and log in as an unpriviledged user and deny myself write access to the directories where Kazaa keeps its advertising. Works for me! :-P
if I can even spell it... How about Jabberwockysaurus? ;)