Heh! I thought I'd chime in with the others warning about how useless it is to google somebody's name. Especially in my case as my name is a combination of a verb and a noun. Imagine how hard it was for me to figure out the intended meaning of "Gunmen [my name] Theatre"... I was missing the verb there for a while, until I realized that my name was the verb and the article wasn't about a person sharing my name at all.
According to google, I am:
* the author of a tutorial on bending metal tubes * a football player * a guy who spent 4 years at Bedales * the namesake of a memorial award at some fraternity * the president of CUPE local 917 * vice presedent of SOAS student's union * a guy who placed 38/63 in a marathon in 1996. * a reverend * and at least three photographers.
Hmm.. As an Australian living in the US, I don't understand how Americans can put up with the terrible remake of the otherwise hillarious British comedy - The Office.
Oh, there's a british version? That would explain a few things. I saw the first episode of the American version, and it was NOT even remotely funny. There were two "heh" moments (once at the end when that guy put his boss's coffee mug in jello, and the other one was apparently not even memorable enough for me to remember). Mostly I was just thinking "WOW, this guy is an asshole, if he was my boss I'd probably have kicked his ass by now." Especially when he made his secretary cry, that was the height of it.
Steve Carell was WAY funnier on The Daily Show with John Stewart than this horrible Office show could ever be.
I primarily use my gmail account for subscribing to a handful of mailing lists. The gmail account becomes a searchable archive of mailing list posts which is *really* handy for use as a reference. I also use it as the email adress listed publicly on my website as I've found gmail's spam filter is really good (I've seen a few false positives but according to my spam folder, I've only gotten 14 spam in the last 30 days).
So nothing that I store on my gmail account is particularly private, so I'm not worried about any privacy issues. Private, personal email is all GPG encrypted, using my ISP's mail account.
Yep, it's actually really useful. When I wake up in the morning I dump a bunch of links into my "to-read" tag, and then I have a list of crap to read while I'm at work.;)
Actually, most of the tshirts in my wardrobe were purchased from various open source projects... I have the firefox shirt and the creative commons shirt, to name a couple. What I'd like to see is a full line of clothing. If I could buy pants, socks, and underwear to support open source projects, I'd never have to go clothes shopping again;)
Though I agree that you can get better support for something well-tested like a commercial distro, there is something to be said for building a distro from scratch, if your goal is to learn how the system works.
Personally, I think everybody should build LFS at least once (at least everybody who wants to learn how linux works anyway). Gentoo makes it too easy, you don't learn nothin';)
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180,000 isn't much, really. How are we supposed to conquer the universe if we're going to limit ourselves so harshly?
Actually, that doesn't work, the perspective would be all wrong. You have to move the monitor out of the way, snap a picture, then put the monitor back and crop appropriately.
Out of curiosity, what are the advantages in using Acrobat vs. say xpdf, gpdf, ggv, or one of the other programs on linux that are already capable of reading PDF files?
What do you mean they don't have a solution? Printed newspapers are supported partly by advertising and partly by subscribers. It's cheaper to publish online (obviously), so it's that much easier to support with advertisements. They could do something like slashdot has done with "premium" memberships to help get some extra money... but really, the advertisements should be able to cover it.
Bruce, I wish you luck with Technocrat.net. I registered a while back (uid #65! w00t!), but quickly lost interest as there wasn't much content being posted (relative to/. anyway). It's good to hear you've got some editors now, hopefully I'll be able to get my daily dose of news from technocrat and not the slashdot drivel that I've become accustomed to.
Tell me though, what plans have you put in place to stop technocrat.net from becoming just as troll-infested as slashdot is? Or is your goal simply to be "slashdot, but with better editors", trolls be damned?
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You say that now, but have you met the Palmela Handerson twins?
Heh! I thought I'd chime in with the others warning about how useless it is to google somebody's name. Especially in my case as my name is a combination of a verb and a noun. Imagine how hard it was for me to figure out the intended meaning of "Gunmen [my name] Theatre" ... I was missing the verb there for a while, until I realized that my name was the verb and the article wasn't about a person sharing my name at all.
;)
According to google, I am:
* the author of a tutorial on bending metal tubes
* a football player
* a guy who spent 4 years at Bedales
* the namesake of a memorial award at some fraternity
* the president of CUPE local 917
* vice presedent of SOAS student's union
* a guy who placed 38/63 in a marathon in 1996.
* a reverend
* and at least three photographers.
Hope this helps
You need to have the "X" in there to keep it hip and 'gen-x'-ey.
My vote is for Ximusovel.
Hmm.. As an Australian living in the US, I don't understand how Americans can put up with the terrible remake of the otherwise hillarious British comedy - The Office.
Oh, there's a british version? That would explain a few things. I saw the first episode of the American version, and it was NOT even remotely funny. There were two "heh" moments (once at the end when that guy put his boss's coffee mug in jello, and the other one was apparently not even memorable enough for me to remember). Mostly I was just thinking "WOW, this guy is an asshole, if he was my boss I'd probably have kicked his ass by now." Especially when he made his secretary cry, that was the height of it.
Steve Carell was WAY funnier on The Daily Show with John Stewart than this horrible Office show could ever be.
AUGH, I disabled flash and all that happened was that it changed from a popunder to a regular popup.
Then why not simply stop buying garbage bags? Soon you could save up for that wifi network you've always wanted.
Hah! You foolishly assume that I have been laid in the past! Well the jokes on you, I've nev-- awww, crap :(
You don't get owt for nowt.
I'm not sure that anybody was claiming you could get an OverWeight Truck for neat cattle. Perhaps you meant "aught for naught"?
Ok, here's a direct quote of one Mr. Linus Torvalds from a little movie called RevolutionOS (paraphrased):
"Think of Richard Stallman as the great philosopher, and think of me as the
engineer,"
I primarily use my gmail account for subscribing to a handful of mailing lists. The gmail account becomes a searchable archive of mailing list posts which is *really* handy for use as a reference. I also use it as the email adress listed publicly on my website as I've found gmail's spam filter is really good (I've seen a few false positives but according to my spam folder, I've only gotten 14 spam in the last 30 days).
So nothing that I store on my gmail account is particularly private, so I'm not worried about any privacy issues. Private, personal email is all GPG encrypted, using my ISP's mail account.
Actually, it wasn't that hard to find.
But I still link to it from my sig anyway.
Yep, it's actually really useful. When I wake up in the morning I dump a bunch of links into my "to-read" tag, and then I have a list of crap to read while I'm at work. ;)
Actually, most of the tshirts in my wardrobe were purchased from various open source projects... I have the firefox shirt and the creative commons shirt, to name a couple. What I'd like to see is a full line of clothing. If I could buy pants, socks, and underwear to support open source projects, I'd never have to go clothes shopping again ;)
Remind me to schedual my appointment with the speling tutor tommorow.
People go into programming because they want to dick around.
;)
Best. Quote. Ever.
But I still think GNOME is purdy. *drool*
Though I agree that you can get better support for something well-tested like a commercial distro, there is something to be said for building a distro from scratch, if your goal is to learn how the system works.
;)
Personally, I think everybody should build LFS at least once (at least everybody who wants to learn how linux works anyway). Gentoo makes it too easy, you don't learn nothin'
180,000 isn't much, really. How are we supposed to conquer the universe if we're going to limit ourselves so harshly?
Actually, that doesn't work, the perspective would be all wrong. You have to move the monitor out of the way, snap a picture, then put the monitor back and crop appropriately.
With any luck at all, you will be cleansed from the gene pool shortly.
But with my luck, my boss will get hit by a bus and you'll be his new replacement.
Out of curiosity, what are the advantages in using Acrobat vs. say xpdf, gpdf, ggv, or one of the other programs on linux that are already capable of reading PDF files?
What do you mean they don't have a solution? Printed newspapers are supported partly by advertising and partly by subscribers. It's cheaper to publish online (obviously), so it's that much easier to support with advertisements. They could do something like slashdot has done with "premium" memberships to help get some extra money... but really, the advertisements should be able to cover it.
Umm, provided you have some competent SuSE people (which Novell does) then you don't have any costs whatsoever.
They had to pay the employees something.
Bruce, I wish you luck with Technocrat.net. I registered a while back (uid #65! w00t!), but quickly lost interest as there wasn't much content being posted (relative to /. anyway). It's good to hear you've got some editors now, hopefully I'll be able to get my daily dose of news from technocrat and not the slashdot drivel that I've become accustomed to.
Tell me though, what plans have you put in place to stop technocrat.net from becoming just as troll-infested as slashdot is? Or is your goal simply to be "slashdot, but with better editors", trolls be damned?
Thanks.
Also, openoffice can export directly to PDF.
FPNAD? Yeah, I think my NADs got FP once, too.