Like no way to change the screen resolution without editing xf86config in KDE
X 4.3 introduced a method for changing the screen resolution on the fly, without restarting X. GNOME 2.6 has a utility to do it, I don't know about KDE, though. At any rate, there's no longer a technical reason that KDE can't change the resolution itself, so expect that to get fixed in later versions. I've always seen this complaint as a non issue, though, since I chose my resolution at install time and I haven't needed to change it since.
no way to get a columned list view of files in Nautilus in GNOME.
Are you trolling? Seriously dude, View --> View As List, you're done. Two clicks.
package management is (now) painless
Unless Microsoft has radically changed the installation procedure since I last used windows (win98), their "package management" is pathetic. Every program has to write their own nonstandard installation wizard program that puts files all over your filesystem, and then to uninstall that program you have to hope that the wizard cleans up all it's files (most leave lots of crappy stupid files behind, and they leave their registry entries behind too, giving way for little "clean up" utilities that scan the harddrive for files to delete and registry entries to remove, that I used to be so fond of before I discovered linux.
I despise portage and apt-get.
apt-get rules! It's almost as good as yum (see below):)
RPMs, IMO, would be far better if they didn't suck with their can't solve their own dependencies problem.
The problem with RPM dependencies is a problem with the tool you're using, not any inherent problem with RPMs. For example, I'm using Fedora Core, and I use yum to install stuff, everything works great, all dependencies are handled for you. Want to install a program? "yum install programname". Want to update all the software on your box? "yum update". Want to remove something? "yum remove programname". No hassles. Windows can only dream of being this easy. If you want a GUI program to point & drool, I'm sure something like that exists, but frankly I don't give a damn:)
What do you mean, "missing letter"? The URL is "goatse.cx", the joke is that the top level domain is part of the word spelled in the domain name. See also cr.yp.to, www.the-b.org (although the page seems unrelated to the Borg, unfortunately...), and others that I can't seem to remember.
please name a single thing in the whole world that ISN'T "potentially valuable to abusers"
That's a good point, I was stumped for a short while... but how about a jail term? I don't think anybody can abuse a jail term in such a way to benefit from it (making it 'potentially valuable'). And I'm not talking about framing an innocent person, I mean if you got sentenced to prison, you couldn't abuse that to your advantage.:)
When you call 911 on a cell phone, chances are good that a) you will be in a poorly-defined location (ie, "I'm underneath the tire of a car!"), and b) you will need a speedy response. Why must you be forced to describe your location well enough for police to find you, instead of simply lettimg them track your phone and show up to where you called?
Calling 911 implies it's an emergency, you need the police NOW.
The Plain View displays (by Raytheon) in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of 1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate.
Wait, are we talking about the 1970s, or the 970s?:)
I wish credit card companies had fake numbers to give to these spammers and paypal fraud artists that would automatically trigger alarms when they ran through for verification.
Hey, that's a great idea! It's like that honeypot thing I read about a while ago (can't find a link, sorry).
Anyway, I don't know anything about credit cards (not having one, and all), but I heard that for security reasons, you can have the credit card company put limits on your account, like if you work 9 to 5, have the card raise red flags if it's used between 9 and 5, since you're not likely to be using the card while you're at work and any use at that time is likely fraudulent. So just sign up for a credit card and say something like "I only use it sundays, flag everything else", and then buy into a bunch of spam stuff on monday.
And then, just never use the card for anything but spam. I guess that's a little extreme, but if you really wanted to hunt down these spammers...
They might be Mensa members, they're smart enough not to carry ID giving their proper name. That, and/or he's not catching the Mensa members. But, there's no rule saying a Mensa member can't be a deadbeat.
Am I not making myself clear enough?
The criminal element of Mensa is smart enough to not get caught! All the ones getting caught are stupid, hence no Mensa membership for them.
If there are seeds who are done downloading and have upstream to spare, they basically upload to anybody.
But the leechers who are downloading and uploading, will more or less only upload to people who they have downloaded from, at 1:1. There is a bit of wiggle room for people who are just starting and don't have any bits of the file yet, though.
That's why BT always starts off slow and then speeds up. The more of the file you have, the more you can upload, and the more you upload, the faster you download.
In an extreme case, though, like when you're the only leech on a torrent with tons of seeds, your download will go shockingly fast and will have uploaded nothing. There you go.
This is all well and good -- but there's a problem: I can't connect!
MUTE.log is just getting filled up with this:
L4 | Fri Dec 19 19:34:54 2003 (877 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Trying to add a new connection.
L4 | Fri Dec 19 19:34:54 2003 (877 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Adding a connection failed. L4 | Fri Dec 19 19:34:54 2003 (877 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Found no hosts to connect to.
Also, STDOUT says this:
Host name lookup failed: katcher.2y.net:4900
Host name lookup failed: monolith.2y.net:4900
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Like no way to change the screen resolution without editing xf86config in KDE
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X 4.3 introduced a method for changing the screen resolution on the fly, without restarting X. GNOME 2.6 has a utility to do it, I don't know about KDE, though. At any rate, there's no longer a technical reason that KDE can't change the resolution itself, so expect that to get fixed in later versions. I've always seen this complaint as a non issue, though, since I chose my resolution at install time and I haven't needed to change it since.
no way to get a columned list view of files in Nautilus in GNOME.
Are you trolling? Seriously dude, View --> View As List, you're done. Two clicks.
package management is (now) painless
Unless Microsoft has radically changed the installation procedure since I last used windows (win98), their "package management" is pathetic. Every program has to write their own nonstandard installation wizard program that puts files all over your filesystem, and then to uninstall that program you have to hope that the wizard cleans up all it's files (most leave lots of crappy stupid files behind, and they leave their registry entries behind too, giving way for little "clean up" utilities that scan the harddrive for files to delete and registry entries to remove, that I used to be so fond of before I discovered linux.
I despise portage and apt-get.
apt-get rules! It's almost as good as yum (see below)
RPMs, IMO, would be far better if they didn't suck with their can't solve their own dependencies problem.
The problem with RPM dependencies is a problem with the tool you're using, not any inherent problem with RPMs. For example, I'm using Fedora Core, and I use yum to install stuff, everything works great, all dependencies are handled for you. Want to install a program? "yum install programname". Want to update all the software on your box? "yum update". Want to remove something? "yum remove programname". No hassles. Windows can only dream of being this easy. If you want a GUI program to point & drool, I'm sure something like that exists, but frankly I don't give a damn
Why do you figure that? Seven sevens, that's a lot of sevens (seven of them!). Seven is a lucky number :)
I'll let you have eight eights, though, if you want.
I posted it, woohoo :)
Well, police don't actually enforce the RIAA's lawsuits (being a civil and not a criminal matter), but they do tend to eat up the court's time...
"what is that missing letter..."
What do you mean, "missing letter"? The URL is "goatse.cx", the joke is that the top level domain is part of the word spelled in the domain name. See also cr.yp.to, www.the-b.org (although the page seems unrelated to the Borg, unfortunately...), and others that I can't seem to remember.
please name a single thing in the whole world that ISN'T "potentially valuable to abusers"
:)
That's a good point, I was stumped for a short while... but how about a jail term? I don't think anybody can abuse a jail term in such a way to benefit from it (making it 'potentially valuable'). And I'm not talking about framing an innocent person, I mean if you got sentenced to prison, you couldn't abuse that to your advantage.
When you call 911 on a cell phone, chances are good that a) you will be in a poorly-defined location (ie, "I'm underneath the tire of a car!"), and b) you will need a speedy response. Why must you be forced to describe your location well enough for police to find you, instead of simply lettimg them track your phone and show up to where you called?
Calling 911 implies it's an emergency, you need the police NOW.
235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015
How do they know there will be this many fewer programmers? Is this like a murder confession? "I'm going to kill 235,000 programmers, by the way."
Shit, it's time to buy a lottery ticket :)
Also, I think the abacus is disqualified because it is not, in fact, digital.
:)
The finger is by far the first form of digital computing
Ford will work on anything Ford, the year doesn't matter.
What if I drove in on a Model T? Would they service that?
The Plain View displays (by Raytheon) in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of 1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate.
:)
Wait, are we talking about the 1970s, or the 970s?
Are you sure it's not shaped like a... saucer?
I wish credit card companies had fake numbers to give to these spammers and paypal fraud artists that would automatically trigger alarms when they ran through for verification.
Hey, that's a great idea! It's like that honeypot thing I read about a while ago (can't find a link, sorry).
Anyway, I don't know anything about credit cards (not having one, and all), but I heard that for security reasons, you can have the credit card company put limits on your account, like if you work 9 to 5, have the card raise red flags if it's used between 9 and 5, since you're not likely to be using the card while you're at work and any use at that time is likely fraudulent. So just sign up for a credit card and say something like "I only use it sundays, flag everything else", and then buy into a bunch of spam stuff on monday.
And then, just never use the card for anything but spam. I guess that's a little extreme, but if you really wanted to hunt down these spammers...
Wow, you're 69 and not retired yet? That sucks! You're supposed to retire at 65 :)
he U.S. is opposing a french site because France opposed the war in Iraq.
So instead, they thought they'd like to build it in the country that bombed Pearl Harbor?
What age is "legal" in 175 days? ISTR that they were 16 when I was 18...
Actually, I'm 19, and here in Alberta, drinking age is 18, so I've been legal for a while now...
Perl, on the other hand, has a couple of years yet before she's legal (much like the Olsen Twins).
That said, I still use a Windows desktop.. why?
Judging by your username, I'd say it's because you're a wacky brit.
Actually come to think of it, I was in 4th grade and now am in my mid 20's. Hmmmm
:)
Dude. You are old. I spent most of 1987 being 3 years old (the last month or so, I was 4!). I finished grade 4 in 1994.
You old fart! Who let you onto the internet?
They might be Mensa members, they're smart enough not to carry ID giving their proper name. That, and/or he's not catching the Mensa members. But, there's no rule saying a Mensa member can't be a deadbeat.
Am I not making myself clear enough?
The criminal element of Mensa is smart enough to not get caught! All the ones getting caught are stupid, hence no Mensa membership for them.
First guess submitted on 2001-01-06
Most optimistic guess: 2001-01-05 by Bill Segall
Bill, you're a GENIUS!
If you consider his goal to have been "get name known by all the slashdot trolls", he was remarkably successful.
it does? did it always?
Yes and no.
If there are seeds who are done downloading and have upstream to spare, they basically upload to anybody.
But the leechers who are downloading and uploading, will more or less only upload to people who they have downloaded from, at 1:1. There is a bit of wiggle room for people who are just starting and don't have any bits of the file yet, though.
That's why BT always starts off slow and then speeds up. The more of the file you have, the more you can upload, and the more you upload, the faster you download.
In an extreme case, though, like when you're the only leech on a torrent with tons of seeds, your download will go shockingly fast and will have uploaded nothing. There you go.
MUTE.log is just getting filled up with this:
Also, STDOUT says this:
Anybody have any ideas?
It strikes me that if he's throwing them up against the wall and finding any ID at all, at least accurate stuff, they're not that smart to begin with.
I think that's kinda the point. They were stupid enough to get caught; they're not Mensa members.