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Oh, and MUD = Multi User Dungeon. It's like dungeons and dragons for people who, rather than that three friends, have no friends. Very popular in the *nix world, however. I'm not claiming any kind of corelation here.
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Yes, I too am planning such a move for my parents. It would be nice, however, if Gnucash wasn't so ugly. It's still using gtk1. This upsets me. A Quicken-like-program is all that's holding my dad back. After the recent ass raping they got with spyware on their computer, they're getting more and more disenchanted with windows. I'm also aware of the OSS games that exist on *nix platforms, and may i just say - they mostly suck. There are exceptions, like UT and others, but those aren't exactly OSS games. The closest i've seen is Savage, but it's still closed source. Not that i'm complaining or anything, I bought the bastard.
Just becuase you HAVE a hotmail account doesn't mean you USE it. All my personal e-mail goes to my own mailserver under my desk. The 7 or so hotmail accounts are just spam-catchers. Mmmmm...3 years virtually spam free.
Any why the hell would I let the fucktards on slashdot know my real e-mail address?
Besides Freeciv and the multitudes of shitty MUD's and text-rpgs, can you point me in the direction of some OSS windows games? I really really REALLY would love to find some. Thanks.
Just to block criticism I already see coming, all of those ported apps are built into packages, and all are available, out of the box, via pkg-add in freebsd. The project has a whole cluster dedicated to building packages, and it also acts as quality control for the ports system: if an app doesn't build, it smacks the ports people in the face.
Gentoo's Handbook is the highest quality linux doc I've ever used. This kind of documentation really needs to replace the tired old HOWTO system. I'm faily sick of searching google for tips on how to set up my webcam under linux, only to get a HOWTO that references the 2.2 kernel.
That being said, the only thing that beats it is FreeBSD's handbook. If you want to learn how unix works, be it UNIX or BSD or linux, FreeBSD's handbook will lay down all the basics for you. It still serves me well 5 years after I first read through it.
Here is the english version. I encourage everyone to look through it.
"I happen to agree with you about the abortion thing, but that is not because I against a woman's right to choose, it is because I am for the right of the fetus to choose."
Take some coginitive development classes...please...for the love of God, before you vote!
That guy's a fucktard. The only difference between him and "all that is wrong with blogging" that you mentioned, is that he is arrogant and closed minded. Which, of course, means arrogant and closed minded people love him, since he satiates their need to qualify their sheepish opinions as valuable in a world where opinions are a dime a dozen, and mostly unoriginal slop. In fact, he moans about how life is aweful, for example:
"When Jim Carrey's "Ace Ventura" came out, every prick I know did their worst "allllrighty then" impression. You can still hear it echoed by smug school girls who try to compensate for their lack of personality and any semblance of wit by chanting this mantra so maybe you won't notice that they're lying whores. The worst is when some gabby bitch is the center of a party, and someone tells an awkward story, to which she'll pause a beat, roll her eyes, then say "oooooookayyyyy!" Then she thinks it's funny and she high fives all her snobby bitch friends who watch stupid shit like "Will & Grace" and "Average American Family deals with gay daughter," all while listening to whiny angst-filled "emo" bullshit and taking everything Carson Daly says as gospel. I hope you choke."
Hm. I think someone got turned down at parties a few too many times by such girls. Not that I disagree with him, I just think he's a fucktard.
No one will understand it until they have that moment of pure everything, where all the good, evil, and spaciality in the universe converges and makes absolute sense. Then, and only then, will spacial browsing make sense to the individual.
I just had it like...a minute ago. I'm still recovering. Whoa.
If you haven't tried it and you like music do what ever it takes to get an apple laptop and and an ipod.
Or get something cheaper, that works seemlessly with any OS that has a java virtual machine, and plays more music formats. Like the Rio Karma. Well, unless you don't want to go against the trends and all. It's so unhip looking.
Oh Oh, I think I smell an engineer here!
What do you mean by that? Someone who has a valid opinion and facts to back it up, or someone who's obviosuly up for a good argument/debate that you're wanting to start?
Someone who puts blind faith in what they've been taught. Someone who is told by a professor that velocity is length over time without thinking beyond that - a person who doesn't think about the lower limits of length, or the greater problem of time. Someone who speaks of facts without thinking about what a fact really is, or someone who boasts using pragmatic thought while at the same time blindly participating in dogma, the antithesis to pragmatism.
Engineers are those who must accept that science is truth as their base assumption at least some of the time. Scientists don't even do that.
HAH! I love this guy. That is awesome. I'm glad I'm not the only anti-engineer here!
But you've got a great point. What's more "efficient" for one person isn't more efficient for another. In order to get efficient with a command line, one experiences a learning curve. If you're particularly computer illiterate, it's a damn frustrating learning curve. And, believe it or not, most people don't want to know a lot about their computer. It is a tool - it's a tool to balance a checkbook, it's a tool to write letters, e-mail, make movies, edit pictures, create things other than software. I, for one, love getting into the deep, dark parts of an operating system. I love doing things the hard way. But, not everyone does. I'm trying to convince my parents to switch over to linux for various reasons. My dad's main hang up is moving from quicken to something like gnucash (Which...are they ever going to port to GTK 2?...it looks like serious ass), and that he can't easily listen to All Songs Considered on NPR becuase it's a windows media stream. My mom thinks computers blow up internally whenever she touches them. These are the people who use drag and drop!! These are the technologically unwashed masses!! Efficient, to them, means not fighting with the computer to do something, but working with it. Cooperatively.
Oh, and as far as the initial topic at hand goes, Any system built in the last couple of years will handle Gnome or KDE just fine. Of course a PII 250 mhz isn't going to, they're not designed for that. However, such a system is still usable in linux, and even MORE efficiently (since the grandparent seemed to enjoy that term) used by FreeBSD or DragonFlyBSD, using one of the more light weight wm's. So, yes. The whole thing is a non-issue. Lets all get back to what we came here to see...HARD CORE NUDITY!
Or so you SAY! Just like i say you're full of crap. Personally, though, I ported "KDE/Mozilla" to my Cray SX-6 in my closet, and it STILL runs slow ass. And Gnome, on my 8-node POWER5 cluster i got from IBM for beta testing, still runs slower than a 90 year old grandma who just got hit by a car. So, i'm not disagreeing with you. I just think you're full of crap.
...does it really matter what he could have tried?
And, yeah, 386BSD existed more or less before linux - at least it was usable and stable before linux was. After the AT&T wars, it became NetBSD and FreeBSD.
Funny story, back in the windows 3.x days when my family's computer was still running MSDOS 6 or so (oddly enough, not windows), I remember going with my cousin and dad to a local computer expo (now NATIONAL PRODUCTION'S COMPUTER FAIR!! At the fairplex in Pomona!...Gee, how I loathe that commercial). There was a guy there hawking OS/2 warp. He wasn't getting much business. It's kind of a shame that computer expos like there were so heavily infiltrated by windows fans, even back in the early days. They still are, for the most part. You can get OEM windows XP disks at many booths, but almost NONE sell linux, *BSD, or even Macs.
C'mon man. At BEST flight has boosted our economy by making travel from point A to point B faster. But has it really had a profound effect on the fabric of humanity in the same way Nano-tech and genetics research most likely will? If you're going to site a technology that is in the same duality in it's good and evil power, use something like microbiological culturing (advanced biowarfare/antibiotics), even chemical engineering (chemical weapons/chemical fertilizers that allow for precise application to maximize crop yeild and minimize groundwater pollution)! Compared to these, flight is just a vehicle for transmission. An alternative to bipedal motion. A fairly innocuous invention. Had it not been invented, other means of transportation would have come about - like sub-survace intra-space-time balooning.
Seriously, why do people get so up in arms when others present a word of caution? We've invented some pretty volitile shit in the past without thinking, and it's costed lives. Fortunately for those of us in the US, we've generally not been on the recieving end. One day we might be. So, why not step into these waters of nano tech and genetics with caution?
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thank you, greatly appreciated.
Oh, and MUD = Multi User Dungeon. It's like dungeons and dragons for people who, rather than that three friends, have no friends. Very popular in the *nix world, however. I'm not claiming any kind of corelation here.
Yes, I too am planning such a move for my parents. It would be nice, however, if Gnucash wasn't so ugly. It's still using gtk1. This upsets me. A Quicken-like-program is all that's holding my dad back. After the recent ass raping they got with spyware on their computer, they're getting more and more disenchanted with windows. I'm also aware of the OSS games that exist on *nix platforms, and may i just say - they mostly suck. There are exceptions, like UT and others, but those aren't exactly OSS games. The closest i've seen is Savage, but it's still closed source. Not that i'm complaining or anything, I bought the bastard.
Just becuase you HAVE a hotmail account doesn't mean you USE it. All my personal e-mail goes to my own mailserver under my desk. The 7 or so hotmail accounts are just spam-catchers. Mmmmm...3 years virtually spam free.
Any why the hell would I let the fucktards on slashdot know my real e-mail address?
Besides Freeciv and the multitudes of shitty MUD's and text-rpgs, can you point me in the direction of some OSS windows games? I really really REALLY would love to find some. Thanks.
I was so going to go there, and you beat me to it. Why, oh why, did you post as an AC?
What? Media is biased? Cable TV has commercials? The President is funded by terrorist corporations? I have a dog? Your mom? What?!?!
Just wanted to point out - some Gentoo followers also use it for it's ease of "post-install administration."
Just to block criticism I already see coming, all of those ported apps are built into packages, and all are available, out of the box, via pkg-add in freebsd. The project has a whole cluster dedicated to building packages, and it also acts as quality control for the ports system: if an app doesn't build, it smacks the ports people in the face.
Clearly becuase Open Source = Linux. Man, you're not a very good zealot, are you? GO BACK TO ZEALOT SCHOOL!!!
"Don't get me wrong, I love Christianity, but Satanism just makes more sense in some situations."
Sorry, i just thought this otherwise logical debate could use some nonsensicality added to it.
Gentoo's Handbook is the highest quality linux doc I've ever used. This kind of documentation really needs to replace the tired old HOWTO system. I'm faily sick of searching google for tips on how to set up my webcam under linux, only to get a HOWTO that references the 2.2 kernel.
That being said, the only thing that beats it is FreeBSD's handbook. If you want to learn how unix works, be it UNIX or BSD or linux, FreeBSD's handbook will lay down all the basics for you. It still serves me well 5 years after I first read through it.
Here is the english version. I encourage everyone to look through it.
" I happen to agree with you about the abortion thing, but that is not because I against a woman's right to choose, it is because I am for the right of the fetus to choose."
Take some coginitive development classes...please...for the love of God, before you vote!
Ba-zing!
That guy's a fucktard. The only difference between him and "all that is wrong with blogging" that you mentioned, is that he is arrogant and closed minded. Which, of course, means arrogant and closed minded people love him, since he satiates their need to qualify their sheepish opinions as valuable in a world where opinions are a dime a dozen, and mostly unoriginal slop. In fact, he moans about how life is aweful, for example:
"When Jim Carrey's "Ace Ventura" came out, every prick I know did their worst "allllrighty then" impression. You can still hear it echoed by smug school girls who try to compensate for their lack of personality and any semblance of wit by chanting this mantra so maybe you won't notice that they're lying whores. The worst is when some gabby bitch is the center of a party, and someone tells an awkward story, to which she'll pause a beat, roll her eyes, then say "oooooookayyyyy!" Then she thinks it's funny and she high fives all her snobby bitch friends who watch stupid shit like "Will & Grace" and "Average American Family deals with gay daughter," all while listening to whiny angst-filled "emo" bullshit and taking everything Carson Daly says as gospel. I hope you choke."
Hm. I think someone got turned down at parties a few too many times by such girls. Not that I disagree with him, I just think he's a fucktard.
This is not insightful. It's not interesting. It's hardly informative, and it's more or less off topic.
Plus, anyone who doesn't code their OWN blog is a pansy. Duh.
No one will understand it until they have that moment of pure everything, where all the good, evil, and spaciality in the universe converges and makes absolute sense. Then, and only then, will spacial browsing make sense to the individual.
I just had it like...a minute ago. I'm still recovering. Whoa.
And as a Java Guru, you know class!! Nyuck Nyuck.
If you haven't tried it and you like music do what ever it takes to get an apple laptop and and an ipod.
Or get something cheaper, that works seemlessly with any OS that has a java virtual machine, and plays more music formats. Like the Rio Karma. Well, unless you don't want to go against the trends and all. It's so unhip looking.
Oh Oh, I think I smell an engineer here!
What do you mean by that? Someone who has a valid opinion and facts to back it up, or someone who's obviosuly up for a good argument/debate that you're wanting to start?
Someone who puts blind faith in what they've been taught. Someone who is told by a professor that velocity is length over time without thinking beyond that - a person who doesn't think about the lower limits of length, or the greater problem of time. Someone who speaks of facts without thinking about what a fact really is, or someone who boasts using pragmatic thought while at the same time blindly participating in dogma, the antithesis to pragmatism.
Engineers are those who must accept that science is truth as their base assumption at least some of the time. Scientists don't even do that.
Oh Oh, I think I smell an engineer here!
...it looks like serious ass), and that he can't easily listen to All Songs Considered on NPR becuase it's a windows media stream. My mom thinks computers blow up internally whenever she touches them. These are the people who use drag and drop!! These are the technologically unwashed masses!! Efficient, to them, means not fighting with the computer to do something, but working with it. Cooperatively.
HAH! I love this guy. That is awesome. I'm glad I'm not the only anti-engineer here!
But you've got a great point. What's more "efficient" for one person isn't more efficient for another. In order to get efficient with a command line, one experiences a learning curve. If you're particularly computer illiterate, it's a damn frustrating learning curve. And, believe it or not, most people don't want to know a lot about their computer. It is a tool - it's a tool to balance a checkbook, it's a tool to write letters, e-mail, make movies, edit pictures, create things other than software. I, for one, love getting into the deep, dark parts of an operating system. I love doing things the hard way. But, not everyone does. I'm trying to convince my parents to switch over to linux for various reasons. My dad's main hang up is moving from quicken to something like gnucash (Which...are they ever going to port to GTK 2?
Oh, and as far as the initial topic at hand goes, Any system built in the last couple of years will handle Gnome or KDE just fine. Of course a PII 250 mhz isn't going to, they're not designed for that. However, such a system is still usable in linux, and even MORE efficiently (since the grandparent seemed to enjoy that term) used by FreeBSD or DragonFlyBSD, using one of the more light weight wm's. So, yes. The whole thing is a non-issue. Lets all get back to what we came here to see...HARD CORE NUDITY!
Or so you SAY! Just like i say you're full of crap. Personally, though, I ported "KDE/Mozilla" to my Cray SX-6 in my closet, and it STILL runs slow ass. And Gnome, on my 8-node POWER5 cluster i got from IBM for beta testing, still runs slower than a 90 year old grandma who just got hit by a car. So, i'm not disagreeing with you. I just think you're full of crap.
...does it really matter what he could have tried?
...Gee, how I loathe that commercial). There was a guy there hawking OS/2 warp. He wasn't getting much business. It's kind of a shame that computer expos like there were so heavily infiltrated by windows fans, even back in the early days. They still are, for the most part. You can get OEM windows XP disks at many booths, but almost NONE sell linux, *BSD, or even Macs.
And, yeah, 386BSD existed more or less before linux - at least it was usable and stable before linux was. After the AT&T wars, it became NetBSD and FreeBSD.
Funny story, back in the windows 3.x days when my family's computer was still running MSDOS 6 or so (oddly enough, not windows), I remember going with my cousin and dad to a local computer expo (now NATIONAL PRODUCTION'S COMPUTER FAIR!! At the fairplex in Pomona!
Audiolunchbox
Seriously, I don't get paid by them. They just rock. No DRM, mp3 or ogg. Buy a single file or the whole CD.
C'mon man. At BEST flight has boosted our economy by making travel from point A to point B faster. But has it really had a profound effect on the fabric of humanity in the same way Nano-tech and genetics research most likely will? If you're going to site a technology that is in the same duality in it's good and evil power, use something like microbiological culturing (advanced biowarfare/antibiotics), even chemical engineering (chemical weapons/chemical fertilizers that allow for precise application to maximize crop yeild and minimize groundwater pollution)! Compared to these, flight is just a vehicle for transmission. An alternative to bipedal motion. A fairly innocuous invention. Had it not been invented, other means of transportation would have come about - like sub-survace intra-space-time balooning.
Seriously, why do people get so up in arms when others present a word of caution? We've invented some pretty volitile shit in the past without thinking, and it's costed lives. Fortunately for those of us in the US, we've generally not been on the recieving end. One day we might be. So, why not step into these waters of nano tech and genetics with caution?