Yes, prehaps my use of the word was a bit wrong. I wrote that post rather hurriedly. I meant it in the sense I interpreted it as being used in the parent.
I call it a "closed group" because none of us, as far as I know, advertise our LJs openly (in public profiles or otherwise), nor do we use our full real names in our posts, so there's really no way to find them (and identify who they actually belong to).
The main point of my post, which I think was missed, was to show that the LJ community isn't all 19 year-old girls showing their cleavage. Some users actually use it for what it's intended to be used for, amazingly enough, and that's for putting down your experiences and thought on issues for people to read.
I disagree.
I use LJ, as do many of my friends (RL and otherwise). Pretty much everyone posts daily or semi-daily. It's almost a closed group of about 15 people, and I know every one of them. There's none of the "cliquey" things you describe going on.
If you have these problems with LJ, maybe you should rethink who's on your friends list.
Uh, that's not cool to do that.
I did that once, and forgot to take it out, and then I wondered why I suddenly had to upgrade 4 dozen packages (to unstable releases, I soon realized)
It's better to specify the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command-line for the single command.
I hate to get embroiled in a flame war, but this I must respond to. Forgive me for being off-topic.
I speak from personal experience as a programmer and high school student, that I use Linux (specifically Gentoo Linux), not because I don't like Microsoft, or simply because it's free, but because it is better for me.
Simply put, I need an operating system that works. I cannot afford to have my system crash at an important time. Too many times I have had lots of work finished, only to have the system crash, or the print queue clog up, or something like that.
Linux works. I will not argue about it being easy to use, as I am not your typical computer user. I prefer to use CLI tools than GUI tools, so I cannot comment on this.
As for performance, I beg to differ. One measure is the amount of CPU power used while idle. On this system (1.5GHz Centrino laptop), Windows runs at 4% while doing nothing. Linux is, right now, running at 1% (i.e, fluctuating between 0% and 1%).
Another measure is graphics performance. I am running Gentoo Linux, so the software was compiled for this processor. I have noticed a 10-12FPS increase in speed over Windows. This is nearly equivilent to a generation of graphics cards.
Your milage may vary, indeed.
If I get this straight, Subversion runs on top of Apache. Isn't that a bit heavyweight for their purposes? It seems a bit odd to run a VCS on top of a webserver.
"All the geeks trying to make it into some arthouse philosophers cinema or world-altering experience were a bunch of self-gratifying tools."
The Matrix (Original and Reloaded) are highly philosophical by nature. If you don't like that idea, for whatever reason, then just glaze over some scenes (the Architect scene, as hard as that was to follow, maybe?), but don't go complaining about people who speculate about this.
Sadly, Reloaded did not spend nearly as much time on this as I thought it should have.
I bash Microsoft on a regular basis *because* I know what I'm talking about. I code in C# on.NET every day at work. Sure, it makes it all nice and pretty to make a GUI and all that jazz, but when you get right down to it, there's very little that's truely innovative. It's not the "anti-MS zealots" that need to get their heads out of the sand, it's those like you who hide behind a veil of anonymity
I have used Dvorak for about four months now, and although I am not quite up to par on my old QWERTY speed, mainly because the keyboards at school are QWERTY (I have to switch back and forth every day), I can safely say that it is far easier and more comfortable to type with than QWERTY ever was. As was said before, when typing in Dvorak my hands do not move nearly as much as on a QWERTY.
It may be interesting to note that the keyboard I am typing on now still has it's keycaps arranged in QWERTY, but is mapped in software to Dvorak. I'm not the only one that uses this computer. I am a total touch-typist: looking at the keys doesn't do me much good.
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Yes, prehaps my use of the word was a bit wrong. I wrote that post rather hurriedly. I meant it in the sense I interpreted it as being used in the parent.
I call it a "closed group" because none of us, as far as I know, advertise our LJs openly (in public profiles or otherwise), nor do we use our full real names in our posts, so there's really no way to find them (and identify who they actually belong to).
The main point of my post, which I think was missed, was to show that the LJ community isn't all 19 year-old girls showing their cleavage. Some users actually use it for what it's intended to be used for, amazingly enough, and that's for putting down your experiences and thought on issues for people to read.
I disagree. I use LJ, as do many of my friends (RL and otherwise). Pretty much everyone posts daily or semi-daily. It's almost a closed group of about 15 people, and I know every one of them. There's none of the "cliquey" things you describe going on. If you have these problems with LJ, maybe you should rethink who's on your friends list.
Uh, that's not cool to do that. I did that once, and forgot to take it out, and then I wondered why I suddenly had to upgrade 4 dozen packages (to unstable releases, I soon realized) It's better to specify the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command-line for the single command.
I hate to get embroiled in a flame war, but this I must respond to. Forgive me for being off-topic. I speak from personal experience as a programmer and high school student, that I use Linux (specifically Gentoo Linux), not because I don't like Microsoft, or simply because it's free, but because it is better for me. Simply put, I need an operating system that works. I cannot afford to have my system crash at an important time. Too many times I have had lots of work finished, only to have the system crash, or the print queue clog up, or something like that. Linux works. I will not argue about it being easy to use, as I am not your typical computer user. I prefer to use CLI tools than GUI tools, so I cannot comment on this. As for performance, I beg to differ. One measure is the amount of CPU power used while idle. On this system (1.5GHz Centrino laptop), Windows runs at 4% while doing nothing. Linux is, right now, running at 1% (i.e, fluctuating between 0% and 1%). Another measure is graphics performance. I am running Gentoo Linux, so the software was compiled for this processor. I have noticed a 10-12FPS increase in speed over Windows. This is nearly equivilent to a generation of graphics cards. Your milage may vary, indeed.
If I get this straight, Subversion runs on top of Apache. Isn't that a bit heavyweight for their purposes? It seems a bit odd to run a VCS on top of a webserver.
There may be no I in "team", but there is no U in solipsism
Also, try using the compiler flag -Os (Optimize for size) with GCC/G++
"All the geeks trying to make it into some arthouse philosophers cinema or world-altering experience were a bunch of self-gratifying tools."
The Matrix (Original and Reloaded) are highly philosophical by nature. If you don't like that idea, for whatever reason, then just glaze over some scenes (the Architect scene, as hard as that was to follow, maybe?), but don't go complaining about people who speculate about this.
Sadly, Reloaded did not spend nearly as much time on this as I thought it should have.
I bash Microsoft on a regular basis *because* I know what I'm talking about. I code in C# on .NET every day at work. Sure, it makes it all nice and pretty to make a GUI and all that jazz, but when you get right down to it, there's very little that's truely innovative. It's not the "anti-MS zealots" that need to get their heads out of the sand, it's those like you who hide behind a veil of anonymity
Nice... I always wondered if there was any hard numbers out there showing the (ahem) superiority of Dvorak
I have used Dvorak for about four months now, and although I am not quite up to par on my old QWERTY speed, mainly because the keyboards at school are QWERTY (I have to switch back and forth every day), I can safely say that it is far easier and more comfortable to type with than QWERTY ever was. As was said before, when typing in Dvorak my hands do not move nearly as much as on a QWERTY. It may be interesting to note that the keyboard I am typing on now still has it's keycaps arranged in QWERTY, but is mapped in software to Dvorak. I'm not the only one that uses this computer. I am a total touch-typist: looking at the keys doesn't do me much good.