I worked in ISP tech support during the System 7.x.x and Open Transport 1.x.x days. It was a nighmare explaining the versioning system to users... "No no no, 7.1.1 is not '7.11'. 7.1.1 is an OLDER version then 7.5.
I have no idea how you go about finding planets equipped with beer and whisky but I'm willing to give it a go.
Well if you drink too much, you either fall flat on your face, staring into a planet; or you fall on your back, staring at the lights in the sky, which are spinning around and around, which must mean they are planets.
Not only do they sell the wire, but they are geek friendly: Providing Soldering Instructions for the novice, will offer advice on how to build your own driver or sequencer (Using parts from used disposable cameras), host EL Wire howto's in the SF Bay Area, etc.
Here's why my seti@home activity has dropped over time:
- I have a dual boot machine. I use Linux 50% of the time, and Windows the other 50% of the time.
- I only run the seti@home client in Windows, and only as a screensaver. The Windows client has an option to only run as a screen saver. But the Unix version runs 24/7, and is difficult to automatically disable and reenable. I gave up and have never tried again (and I haven't tried the xsetiathome client).
- I like to run Windows with a minimal configuration. Unfortunately, seti@home requires that you run a seti@home process all the time. Even if you just want to run it as a screensaver, the seti@home process is always there, sucking up resources. I wish it only ran during screensaver mode. I'll probably
- I often need to disable the the seti@home screensaver, and I forget to reenable it. Why? Sometimes I need to run Scandisk, run a virus scan, or need to run some CPU-intensive process. Before you do this, the seti@home screensaver needs to be disabled. The client (or Windows) isn't intelligent enough to NOT run the screensaver whent the load is too high. If I am running scandisk, the screensaver starts 5 minutes into the scan, Windows detects a change on the system, and scandisk restarts; over an over again.
My sister-in-law has passed out from low blood sugar several times in the last year. Before each episode, she said something akin to "Fuck off!".
Nowadays, when she says "Fuck off!" we force her to sit down and measure her blood sugar.
Of course, sometimes she has perfectly normal blood sugar, and has a perfectly legitimate reason to say "Fuck off!", and us saying "Are you feeling ok? Perhaps you should stick this sharp needle in your finger and experience some pain, just to alieve our fears" just makes her angrier...
But still, she completely passed out on me twice now, and each time we either had to force sugar into her convulsing, drooling mouth or stick a big needle into her quaking leg to counteract the effects of the insulin. It's scary...
Everything worked great until I started doing the red carpet updates. Then Red Carpet would break. The icons on my desktop would break. The Evolution mailer would break.
I have to somewhat agree.
Occasionally, due to a bug, or more often due to me running out of HD space, the install for a core RPM like 'red-carpet' or 'rpm' would die. Then I'd be stuck without red-carpet or rpm, and would have to restore these programms by grabbing a bootstrap install from Ximian or elsewhere.
But there is a reson for this: Ximian only has one person in charge of repackaging/testing the Solaris RPMs. This is in large part due to the fact that Solaris users make up a very small percentage of the Ximian and Gnome market (Heck, less then 1% of the visitors to Gnomedesktop.com use Solaris)
This may improve as Gnome2.0 matures, after Ximian reduces their support for Gnome1.4 in favor of Gnome2.x, and after Sun releases their Gnome2.0 distro.
specialy marked or not, they taste alot better than the bud and miller yankee water brews.
Every American beer drinker I've met regards Bud and Miller beer as piss-water. I don't know who drinks it, but I feel ashamed when people consider Bud and Miller as 'American' beers (But given their popularity, I can see why you think so).
America has plenty of good beer, but most of it is only available in a small area; and is rarely shipped outside of the country.
I'm only familiar with the West Coast, but I can tell you that the Seattle, Portland and San Francisco areas have some fine beers which rival the best of Europe.
Now if you only could get decent 3d support without recompiling your kernel...
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Linuxworld seemed like two conferences in one. There was the "Linux, the home-user and small office product" and then there was the "Linux, spend lots of money on this superduper mainframe".
I'm small fry. I use linux at home, bug hunt for some OSS projects, administer linux & UNIX at a 60-person company. My linux world revolves around home users, small offices, and nonprofits.
I couldn't even get anybody at the IBM, HP, AMD or RedHat booths to speak to me. They just wanted to scan my card and send me info. But when I asked simple questions ("So, tell me about the s390" "Do you have any server products for smaller offices or for nonprofits"?), the salespeople got huffy and would go pursue some bigger fish.
It was like they could tell, just from my haircut, that I don't have $400,000,000 to blow on an s390 mainframe.
Sun was the exception here. Out of all of the Big Business booths the folks in the Sun booth were really excited to show off their products to everyone. The Gnome 2.0 folks were thrilled to talk about small office users. The Cobalt Qube guys really wanted to show off the Qube interface.
I spent a good amount of time in the.ORG pavillion. The folks there were mostly friendly and talkative, and seemed equally happy to talk with suits, end-users, or administrator types like me.
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In the streets surrounding the convention center, I saw two flyers advocating other rallys (Not about linux or computers: One was regarding healthcare reform, the second was about the War on Terror).
I wonder why Bruce & friends didn't put up similar flyers? Or heck, at least print something up for people in the.ORG pavillion.
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Actually, Apple has been using the major.minor.teeny versioning system for a while.
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Check out this article on system 7.5.5
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=
I worked in ISP tech support during the System 7.x.x and Open Transport 1.x.x days. It was a nighmare explaining the versioning system to users... "No no no, 7.1.1 is not '7.11'. 7.1.1 is an OLDER version then 7.5.
I have no idea how you go about finding planets equipped with beer and whisky but I'm willing to give it a go.
Well if you drink too much, you either fall flat on your face, staring into a planet; or you fall on your back, staring at the lights in the sky, which are spinning around and around, which must mean they are planets.
Another vote for coolneon.
Not only do they sell the wire, but they are geek friendly: Providing Soldering Instructions for the novice, will offer advice on how to build your own driver or sequencer (Using parts from used disposable cameras), host EL Wire howto's in the SF Bay Area, etc.
If I had a billion dollars, I'd buy Forbes magazine, fire the staff, and hire some writers and managemnet who had some imagination.
What's with the crap that they're writing: McDonalds Hamburgers? Haircuts on the LAX runway? Dollywood? BOOORRRING!
"Sorry, I got to keep this phone call short! If I talk too long, the VOIP processing chip heats up and burns my cheek!"
Here's why my seti@home activity has dropped over time:
- I have a dual boot machine. I use Linux 50% of the time, and Windows the other 50% of the time.
- I only run the seti@home client in Windows, and only as a screensaver. The Windows client has an option to only run as a screen saver. But the Unix version runs 24/7, and is difficult to automatically disable and reenable. I gave up and have never tried again (and I haven't tried the xsetiathome client).
- I like to run Windows with a minimal configuration. Unfortunately, seti@home requires that you run a seti@home process all the time. Even if you just want to run it as a screensaver, the seti@home process is always there, sucking up resources. I wish it only ran during screensaver mode. I'll probably
- I often need to disable the the seti@home screensaver, and I forget to reenable it. Why? Sometimes I need to run Scandisk, run a virus scan, or need to run some CPU-intensive process. Before you do this, the seti@home screensaver needs to be disabled. The client (or Windows) isn't intelligent enough to NOT run the screensaver whent the load is too high. If I am running scandisk, the screensaver starts 5 minutes into the scan, Windows detects a change on the system, and scandisk restarts; over an over again.
Heck, if you're only 3 classes away from a second degree, go for it. It's well worth your time.
Think of it this way, you're 95% on the way to your second degree... why stop now?
You can always work in your college town and go to school part time to finish up those 3 classes.
After obliterating his computer with a Tesla Coil, will he return the parts as defective or broken?
I use MY Tesla Coil to talk to the ALIENS...
Or, as an alternative, how much bandwidth could be saved if webservers used compression, like mod_gzip?
Of course, given most IRC sessions, an average 11700 ping will just seem like 'yet another potty break'
1. Crush a computer
2. ?????
3. PROFIT!
Well, most people start up apache as root, since it's the easiest way to run apache as 'nobody/nogroup'...
Sure, the furniture will talk to me when I forgot to insert "tab a" into "slot b", but will it scream in agony after I smash my thumb with a hammer?
And after the divorce, he was trying to find his way to Pismo Beach....
Yes indeed.
My sister-in-law has passed out from low blood sugar several times in the last year. Before each episode, she said something akin to "Fuck off!".
Nowadays, when she says "Fuck off!" we force her to sit down and measure her blood sugar.
Of course, sometimes she has perfectly normal blood sugar, and has a perfectly legitimate reason to say "Fuck off!", and us saying "Are you feeling ok? Perhaps you should stick this sharp needle in your finger and experience some pain, just to alieve our fears" just makes her angrier...
But still, she completely passed out on me twice now, and each time we either had to force sugar into her convulsing, drooling mouth or stick a big needle into her quaking leg to counteract the effects of the insulin. It's scary...
Everything worked great until I started doing the red carpet updates. Then Red Carpet would break. The icons on my desktop would break. The Evolution mailer would break.
I have to somewhat agree.
Occasionally, due to a bug, or more often due to me running out of HD space, the install for a core RPM like 'red-carpet' or 'rpm' would die. Then I'd be stuck without red-carpet or rpm, and would have to restore these programms by grabbing a bootstrap install from Ximian or elsewhere.
But there is a reson for this: Ximian only has one person in charge of repackaging/testing the Solaris RPMs. This is in large part due to the fact that Solaris users make up a very small percentage of the Ximian and Gnome market (Heck, less then 1% of the visitors to Gnomedesktop.com use Solaris)
This may improve as Gnome2.0 matures, after Ximian reduces their support for Gnome1.4 in favor of Gnome2.x, and after Sun releases their Gnome2.0 distro.
But you're supposed to use your own words...
So why is Grandma a technophobe now? Because of repeated disappointments.
She probably remembers the dissapointing video phones from the 50's...
specialy marked or not, they taste alot better than the bud and miller yankee water brews.
Every American beer drinker I've met regards Bud and Miller beer as piss-water. I don't know who drinks it, but I feel ashamed when people consider Bud and Miller as 'American' beers (But given their popularity, I can see why you think so).
America has plenty of good beer, but most of it is only available in a small area; and is rarely shipped outside of the country.
I'm only familiar with the West Coast, but I can tell you that the Seattle, Portland and San Francisco areas have some fine beers which rival the best of Europe.
"Yes, this liver was owned by a little old lady who only used it on Sundays"
Don't plankton populations drop during the El Nino season? Different temperatures == fewer plankton survive the temperature change?
Now if you only could get decent 3d support without recompiling your kernel...
Linuxworld seemed like two conferences in one. There was the "Linux, the home-user and small office product" and then there was the "Linux, spend lots of money on this superduper mainframe".
.ORG pavillion. The folks there were mostly friendly and talkative, and seemed equally happy to talk with suits, end-users, or administrator types like me.
I'm small fry. I use linux at home, bug hunt for some OSS projects, administer linux & UNIX at a 60-person company. My linux world revolves around home users, small offices, and nonprofits.
I couldn't even get anybody at the IBM, HP, AMD or RedHat booths to speak to me. They just wanted to scan my card and send me info. But when I asked simple questions ("So, tell me about the s390" "Do you have any server products for smaller offices or for nonprofits"?), the salespeople got huffy and would go pursue some bigger fish.
It was like they could tell, just from my haircut, that I don't have $400,000,000 to blow on an s390 mainframe.
Sun was the exception here. Out of all of the Big Business booths the folks in the Sun booth were really excited to show off their products to everyone. The Gnome 2.0 folks were thrilled to talk about small office users. The Cobalt Qube guys really wanted to show off the Qube interface.
I spent a good amount of time in the
In the streets surrounding the convention center, I saw two flyers advocating other rallys (Not about linux or computers: One was regarding healthcare reform, the second was about the War on Terror).
.ORG pavillion.
I wonder why Bruce & friends didn't put up similar flyers? Or heck, at least print something up for people in the