Two months ago I got myself an Android phone. It does everything I expected it to do. And more. Around me there are several people using iPhones and, so far, I have not seen anything on the iPhone that matters to me and which I really miss. I actually like the couple of extra buttons on my phone. My criticism to Android is that it is almost too good and that I can and will do parts of my work while commuting on a crowded bus.
If there is a difference, it's in the details. One of which is Apple's marketing campaign.
There was me thinking the French actually delivered 3 iconic car designs, the Traction Avant, the DS and the 2CV. But I was wrong as it was an Italian that took care of these. And don't think Bugatti, which produced stunningly beautiful cars, had anything French about the design either.
That leaves the French exclusively with absolute design mingers. (That is, if design is the correct verb for the process they use to envision cars.) In itself that's an achievement.
Generally speaking a Mac is easy to setup and configure and the OS is damn stable. Anything I want on Windows just seems to be so horribly cluttered with details (Like setting up wifi.)
I am an integrator which means I travel a lot and stay with many different clients. I have a 17'' Macbook Pro and it's slim design allows me to easily use it on a train. It's large screen means I can actually work with it and at home I never ever plug in my monitor. The fabulous trackpad is way better than a mouse and I never ever plug one in.
Even if your main operating system is Linux or Windows, the Macbook hardware will make life easier.
I hear all sorts of thing like countries legalizing homosexual marriages, which is jolly good by me. But what's the bloody point in legalizing asexual marriages?!
The driving interface is quite possibly the best user interface I know of, because the basic design hasn't changed since the days of the horseless carriage.
Buddy you don't know what you're talking about. I bet you won't be able to drive the first mass produced car, the T Ford. Without instructions you most likely would be killed at your first attempt.
This car is a looker. Suave and vibrant are the words that come to my mind when I see the pictures. Galls would yearn to be picked up, shagged and brought home in this absolute crumpet catcher. Definitively worth an article on/.
What's nerdy about the mafia doing whatever it is they are doing?
Why wasn't the dutch prince on/. when he complained about a picture of him being shown in a news paper? Hell, freedom of speech was at stake there, possible implications for freedom on the net. The works.
Sure, FAT32 is a bitch. And MS are trying to get money for pre-formatted media. However, it's good enough transferring files from one system to another.
If you want to preserve protections and ownership, just bundle everything into TAR files. With respect to ownership, ask yourself if you want to keep UIDs and GIDs synchronized through all the systems you use, whether you want to map these or whether you let the current user own all files. (Hint, use the latter.)
Also, using archives like TAR and ZIP reduces the amount of files on your FAT32 partition. FAT32 is not knows for excelling in supporting of many files.
Why is this news for nerds? As a nerd I try to remain rational and therefor to absorb the world as clear as possible. Drugs just don't fit in.
I have tried marijuana a couple of times to fit in with the others and to experiment the sensation. Sure I had a few great laughs but the effects on the awareness are horrible and take long to completely get out of your system. I'd have a similar story for alcohol.
Although I sympathize with less zealous drugs policies because tougher ones do not solve the problem -which possibly isn't truly there- but just create more criminals, I cannot see why this is of relevance in a nerds forum.
I find this whole matter and how it is dealt with by IAAF utterly discomforting. Apparently the issue isn't whether ms. Semenya is or isn't a woman but whether she's got unfair advantages.
Resolving the gender question is easy and boils down to whether ms. Semenya ever has been a man or not. I take that's fairly easy to test.
But the unfair advantages isn't.
What if ms. Semenya has a different hormone levels than found in most women? Would that make her an IAAF man? Or would she have to compete in the paralympics?
And what about Usain Bolt? If you dig long enough you'll find that he has very clear advantages over other competitors. But marking these as unfair simply would simply be a step towards mediocrity, where the middle field is allowed to compete and the rest not.
Hell, if the medics would go about my body I'm sure they would find that I have unfair disadvantages and that therefor -inevitably- I'm a girl and should be allowed to compete against women. And loose nevertheless, but that's beside the point.
Where ever did you see a VT100 emulator being advertised as such in the last 10 years? Currently, terminal emulation technology can almost be considered commodity. Nowadays you're likely to run an emulator using xterm, ansi or dtterm protocols.
Advertising VT100 is like putting on your hotel brochure that you have modern copper plumbing. Of course you have, it's 2009 for god sake.
My computer science upbringing consisted in serial line terminals. The DEC VT220 is where I did loads of work on. That was late 80s and I have never ever used or seen a VT100 as by that time that was considered ancient. As I'm in the category older/mature, I'd wager that not only the vast majority of prospect clients will not give a rat's arse about VT100 but also most of us techies. Hell, will the phone come with a 25 pin RS232 port? Maybe grandpa Ken and Dennis -and I say this with the utmost respect- might remember the VT100 all too well, but for most of us it is merely the simplest protocol by which a terminal works.
Whoever wrote the blurb isn't a hands on techie. Otherwise he/she would have just referred to a terminal emulator.
I'm a god fearing and peace loving man. I pray for those with guilt trussed upon on their souls.
But then I condemn the over eager fools that know how to get on the tits of us techies. "Could we see some ID?", "Did you wash, today?" and "You must be mistaking me for someone that gives a fsck about vi vs. emacs! " are all phrases thrown upon my person by idiots that, so it appears, did not want to be helped by my overwhelming knowledge, experience and guru-ism.
Should the tech have punched the man with no clear reason than may god strike upon him and throw him in the purgatory when his time cometh.
Should the limo driver actually be a fsckwit that pushed our brother over the edge, then may he wind up in hell where the devil himself will let him eat his own testicles!
Strong religious rhetoric is much easier when hard facts lack.
If you have anything to say after you kicked the bucket, leave the message at a friend or at a notary's office.
This is just a more high-tech way of doing so. It'd certainly be nice to be able to go back and edit them much more easily than going down to that notary's office, proving you are who you say you are, and replacing that piece of paper.
Messages from the grave aren't trivial. If they were, why bother at all and go through the pain? So you think about them for a while, apply changes and after so many months you deem these ready and schedule them for release at a notary's office. Think of it as a software release. Quick fixes mean you didn't think everything through and sometimes backfire horribly.
One advantage of using the notary's office is that people will gather to hear/see your message. Imagine that uncle Phil who will inevitably read the email just before or after a chicken choke session.
If you really must, try and put yourself on the receiving end of such an email.
Don't be a freak and don't send "emails from your grave". Maybe our twisted minds may see the humor in this, but trust me on this one, most others won't. Well, unless you are a kick ass script writer -in which case, what the hell are you doing on/.?
An email from the grave falls into the same category as making the stupid joke of saying "no" at your wedding. You didn't mean it but your SO is shattered. Let's face it, most of our funerals will be nothing like Graham Chapman's.
If you have anything to say after you kicked the bucket, leave the message at a friend or at a notary's office.
A couple of months ago I got a Philips 37PFL9604H/12 as a replacement for my Philips 37PFL9732D. The 37PFL9604H comes with Internet TV services.
I tried Youtube of course but I was disappointed by the responsiveness of the GUI. Hell, booting the TV and getting to the point where you can select a source goes excruciatingly long. Once it's there it's rather brilliant though -both image and sound.
My educated guess -can't be bothered to actually verify this- is that the margins on TVs are so minute that every possible corner is cut is designing the hardware and that the CPU may actually be a wee bit under dimensioned.
Anyone tried Bing around here? Could you tell us what it's like?
The easy answer is I should try it myself. But I can't. I can't bring myself trying an MS application that potentially might cause me to dislike them even more.
As for you, who are risking your soul by visiting the demon, you will have my blessing and I will say prayers for you -well, I hope that following this article will do, 'cause that's what you get. And your soul will embark on a journey to eternity, armed with the words "I used to be cool on/. before being so foolish as to trust an idiot and to surf to Bing".
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Two months ago I got myself an Android phone. It does everything I expected it to do. And more. Around me there are several people using iPhones and, so far, I have not seen anything on the iPhone that matters to me and which I really miss. I actually like the couple of extra buttons on my phone. My criticism to Android is that it is almost too good and that I can and will do parts of my work while commuting on a crowded bus.
If there is a difference, it's in the details. One of which is Apple's marketing campaign.
Ah, I was in the mood for a bit of gall, vinegar, acid and venom.
So much so for the privileges. Dumb fsck.
There was me thinking the French actually delivered 3 iconic car designs, the Traction Avant, the DS and the 2CV. But I was wrong as it was an Italian that took care of these. And don't think Bugatti, which produced stunningly beautiful cars, had anything French about the design either.
That leaves the French exclusively with absolute design mingers. (That is, if design is the correct verb for the process they use to envision cars.) In itself that's an achievement.
Praise to Flaminio Bertoni.
What kind of developer are you?
Generally speaking a Mac is easy to setup and configure and the OS is damn stable. Anything I want on Windows just seems to be so horribly cluttered with details (Like setting up wifi.)
I am an integrator which means I travel a lot and stay with many different clients. I have a 17'' Macbook Pro and it's slim design allows me to easily use it on a train. It's large screen means I can actually work with it and at home I never ever plug in my monitor. The fabulous trackpad is way better than a mouse and I never ever plug one in.
Even if your main operating system is Linux or Windows, the Macbook hardware will make life easier.
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to confess but I have a Mac too, a 2 year old Macbook Pro. Works a treat and many in our company are switching over.
Great many cracks and holes. Should suit the germs in the gathering dust just fine.
two Linux geeks were married
I hear all sorts of thing like countries legalizing homosexual marriages, which is jolly good by me. But what's the bloody point in legalizing asexual marriages?!
The driving interface is quite possibly the best user interface I know of, because the basic design hasn't changed since the days of the horseless carriage.
Buddy you don't know what you're talking about. I bet you won't be able to drive the first mass produced car, the T Ford. Without instructions you most likely would be killed at your first attempt.
This car is a looker. Suave and vibrant are the words that come to my mind when I see the pictures. Galls would yearn to be picked up, shagged and brought home in this absolute crumpet catcher. Definitively worth an article on /.
Slashdot, the nerd's tabloid.
Sure, FAT32 is a bitch. And MS are trying to get money for pre-formatted media. However, it's good enough transferring files from one system to another.
If you want to preserve protections and ownership, just bundle everything into TAR files. With respect to ownership, ask yourself if you want to keep UIDs and GIDs synchronized through all the systems you use, whether you want to map these or whether you let the current user own all files. (Hint, use the latter.)
Also, using archives like TAR and ZIP reduces the amount of files on your FAT32 partition. FAT32 is not knows for excelling in supporting of many files.
(the closest thing to a geek our family has)
Don't flatter yourself buddy. And don't betray us either.
Why is this news for nerds? As a nerd I try to remain rational and therefor to absorb the world as clear as possible. Drugs just don't fit in.
I have tried marijuana a couple of times to fit in with the others and to experiment the sensation. Sure I had a few great laughs but the effects on the awareness are horrible and take long to completely get out of your system. I'd have a similar story for alcohol.
Although I sympathize with less zealous drugs policies because tougher ones do not solve the problem -which possibly isn't truly there- but just create more criminals, I cannot see why this is of relevance in a nerds forum.
I find this whole matter and how it is dealt with by IAAF utterly discomforting. Apparently the issue isn't whether ms. Semenya is or isn't a woman but whether she's got unfair advantages. Resolving the gender question is easy and boils down to whether ms. Semenya ever has been a man or not. I take that's fairly easy to test.
But the unfair advantages isn't. What if ms. Semenya has a different hormone levels than found in most women? Would that make her an IAAF man? Or would she have to compete in the paralympics? And what about Usain Bolt? If you dig long enough you'll find that he has very clear advantages over other competitors. But marking these as unfair simply would simply be a step towards mediocrity, where the middle field is allowed to compete and the rest not.
Hell, if the medics would go about my body I'm sure they would find that I have unfair disadvantages and that therefor -inevitably- I'm a girl and should be allowed to compete against women. And loose nevertheless, but that's beside the point.
I used to get bothered by terminal emulators and shells. I still fail to understand why most shells were so picky about BS (0x08) and DEL (0x7f.)
It must have been years since I used a terminal emulator that didn't negotiate the correct protocol. Mostly xterm-color is used and works pretty well.
Sure, way cool VT100 is still around and on mobile phones too. I bet it won't take long before some hosty will inevitably use a 3270 emulator.
Where ever did you see a VT100 emulator being advertised as such in the last 10 years? Currently, terminal emulation technology can almost be considered commodity. Nowadays you're likely to run an emulator using xterm, ansi or dtterm protocols.
Advertising VT100 is like putting on your hotel brochure that you have modern copper plumbing. Of course you have, it's 2009 for god sake.
My computer science upbringing consisted in serial line terminals. The DEC VT220 is where I did loads of work on. That was late 80s and I have never ever used or seen a VT100 as by that time that was considered ancient. As I'm in the category older/mature, I'd wager that not only the vast majority of prospect clients will not give a rat's arse about VT100 but also most of us techies. Hell, will the phone come with a 25 pin RS232 port? Maybe grandpa Ken and Dennis -and I say this with the utmost respect- might remember the VT100 all too well, but for most of us it is merely the simplest protocol by which a terminal works.
Whoever wrote the blurb isn't a hands on techie. Otherwise he/she would have just referred to a terminal emulator.
Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability)
Yeah, get there where MS is I say!
I'm a god fearing and peace loving man. I pray for those with guilt trussed upon on their souls.
But then I condemn the over eager fools that know how to get on the tits of us techies. "Could we see some ID?", "Did you wash, today?" and "You must be mistaking me for someone that gives a fsck about vi vs. emacs! " are all phrases thrown upon my person by idiots that, so it appears, did not want to be helped by my overwhelming knowledge, experience and guru-ism.
Should the tech have punched the man with no clear reason than may god strike upon him and throw him in the purgatory when his time cometh.
Should the limo driver actually be a fsckwit that pushed our brother over the edge, then may he wind up in hell where the devil himself will let him eat his own testicles!
Strong religious rhetoric is much easier when hard facts lack.
If you have anything to say after you kicked the bucket, leave the message at a friend or at a notary's office.
This is just a more high-tech way of doing so. It'd certainly be nice to be able to go back and edit them much more easily than going down to that notary's office, proving you are who you say you are, and replacing that piece of paper.
Messages from the grave aren't trivial. If they were, why bother at all and go through the pain? So you think about them for a while, apply changes and after so many months you deem these ready and schedule them for release at a notary's office. Think of it as a software release. Quick fixes mean you didn't think everything through and sometimes backfire horribly.
One advantage of using the notary's office is that people will gather to hear/see your message. Imagine that uncle Phil who will inevitably read the email just before or after a chicken choke session.
If you really must, try and put yourself on the receiving end of such an email.
Don't be a freak and don't send "emails from your grave". Maybe our twisted minds may see the humor in this, but trust me on this one, most others won't. Well, unless you are a kick ass script writer -in which case, what the hell are you doing on /.?
An email from the grave falls into the same category as making the stupid joke of saying "no" at your wedding. You didn't mean it but your SO is shattered. Let's face it, most of our funerals will be nothing like Graham Chapman's.
If you have anything to say after you kicked the bucket, leave the message at a friend or at a notary's office.
A couple of months ago I got a Philips 37PFL9604H/12 as a replacement for my Philips 37PFL9732D. The 37PFL9604H comes with Internet TV services.
I tried Youtube of course but I was disappointed by the responsiveness of the GUI. Hell, booting the TV and getting to the point where you can select a source goes excruciatingly long. Once it's there it's rather brilliant though -both image and sound.
My educated guess -can't be bothered to actually verify this- is that the margins on TVs are so minute that every possible corner is cut is designing the hardware and that the CPU may actually be a wee bit under dimensioned.
Do the buildings go "ping"?
/., go to 3:00 of this. Don't worry, you'll get there some day in a distant future.
If you're new on
Anyone tried Bing around here? Could you tell us what it's like?
/. before being so foolish as to trust an idiot and to surf to Bing".
The easy answer is I should try it myself. But I can't. I can't bring myself trying an MS application that potentially might cause me to dislike them even more.
As for you, who are risking your soul by visiting the demon, you will have my blessing and I will say prayers for you -well, I hope that following this article will do, 'cause that's what you get. And your soul will embark on a journey to eternity, armed with the words "I used to be cool on
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