Looking back, I can't believe I ever found this thing entertaining. But it was, till Jimmy Voirol broke into my house and stole. (Ya fuckhead, I knew you did it, your friends narc'd you off, but I was too much of a pussy then to do anything about it.) Lucky I moved to Nebraska or I'd have to look you up and thrash ya. I might have been a skinny 13 year old then, but times have changed.)
"This would be a good time to consider buying some eyewear that will filter out the red, because an accidental burst can get focused onto your retina. That would be bad."
I've had a 'dead pixel' in my eye for about 20 years now after staring directly into the beam of an early grocery store UPC scanner. It's not very big, and I usually do not notice it anymore. But I just did now, thanks.:)
"Claim that you live in a racist, sexist, redneck hellhole."
That's how Nebraska keeps it's population below 2 million. Keeps the Californians out. But it is also somewhat true. If you're not a church-going republican, you can end up pretty frustrated. Lot's of mentally-blind people here.
I'm also a senior-level.NET developer, but I'm also pretty accomplished with Linux (Nearly 10 years). (But so what?)
Anyway, I ran into the same thing with the Ubuntu install CD. It really really sucks that they didn't test it on more hardware. However, what fixes it in about 90% of the installs that result in a kernel panic is simply adding "IDE=NODMA" to the boot parameters. (To do that, on the first menu that comes up after booting from the CD, hit F6 to bring up the boot parameters, get rid of the '--' on the end [Never did figure out what '--' is suppose to mean, anyone know?] and add IDE=NODMA to the end.) For some reason, the Ubuntu installer is trying to access the CD with something messed up in the Direct Memory Access (DMA).
However, I've still found the normal Ubuntu installation to be so problematic on some machines that if I have any problems, I switch over to the ubuntu-server iso and do the installation from that instead (Still doing the IDE=NODMA thing with that). You end up with a text-only install of Ubuntu, but can fix that once it's installed with 'sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop'.
I really like Ubuntu once it's installed, but the actual installation is a huge pain. (What's funny is that it installs under Microsoft Virtual Server with absolutely no problems (Other than having to tweak/etc/X11/xorg.conf to drop the color depth down to 16 from the default 24 since Virtual Server doesn't support higher than 16 bit color, so your initial install looks all screwy.) which I thought would lead to more problems that installing on a physical machine.)
I'd also edit/etc/apt/sources.list and get rid (or comment out) the line that starts with 'deb cdrom:', and make sure the lines right below starting with 'deb http' and 'deb-src http' are NOT commented out, that way it get's it's updates from the net rather than the local CD which is occasionally flaky as well. Come to my Linux Messagebase if you have more questions.
No, you're wrong. That guy says he does it with his 'electric bass' plugged into his Linux laptop. The rest of us are pathetic fuckers that need to buy Rickenbachers. Jeez, get with the program.:)
Why attack the servers? Sounds to me like these HTML screen readers are the problem, not the servers.
If the screen reader cannot convey the information in a comprehensible manner, then it sounds like they are a broken, fraudulent product. If a visual browser can interpret modern CSS/xHTML and produce a meaningful layout, then perhaps the screen readers need to try a different approach. It's no longer just "reading" the screen like the old text-only HTML days. A modern day 'screen reader' (Really need a different term) should understand DIVs/SPANS/CSS, etc and take that into effect. Not our fault that the screen reader people cannot keep up with technology. If not, maybe we should just go back to text-only green screens and be done with it.
Same thing here, as far as the voting. I am going down the list, and voting against EVERY incumbent. More people need to do the same. Don't worry about which party, just vote against the dipshits currently letting the country be raped under their watch.
After many months of using various AJAX libraries, I watched the Scott Guthrie Introduction to Atlas video. (You can get to it from http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid =63#atlas, and was astounded at how much easier it makes it.
No more having to come up with all kinds of weird JavaScript to do the simplest things. Throw a few normal controls inside of an UpdatePanel, set your triggers, and you've suddenly got a much more responsive web app.
The whole ScriptManager makes it insanely faster to create AJAX apps, no mucking with JavaScript at all. And the JavaScript emitted by the script manager automatically adapts to the browser you are on, FireFox or IE. Surprisingly, being a Microsoft product, some of it actually works better on FireFox. That was a big surprise.
Now I'm just waiting for the actual release. Don't want to get too far into a project with the CTP version, cause you know _something_ will change between the CTP and the actual release.
I'll probably get fried for saying it here, but Microsoft has done a very good thing here.
(Crap, my Alt tag of "Look mom! Free Boat! Yay!" isn't displayed by slashcode:( )
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Holy shit, that sounds pretty much exactly like my story! I think I'm the only one working on it. She cannot see anything good, only the bad. She cannot let go of the past. I think she has somehow moved my image in her mind to the place occupied by her dead, abusive father. Very nice when not mad, but goes off with no apparent trigger. Got mad and moved out last week when I asked her what her problem was after she gave my daughter (her step daughter) enough shit that she started crying.
Oh well, trying counseling for the first time next week. But if she doesn't want to try, not much that can happen. Very heartbreaking to have a 3 year old boy in the mix who does not understand what's going on.
Shoulda listened to my grandma. When I was about 12, I mentioned something about wanting to have a girlfriend, and grandma said "You just stay away from girls. They'll just break your heart and make your life miserable." Best advice I ever got.:)
Anyone know where to find the Non-Clicky Model Ms? I'm one of the weirdos who loves the feel of the later, cheaper, non-buckling spring Model Ms. But finding them is even harder, I've got two of them.
In my opinion, Monte Python is the least funny excuse for 'comedy' I've ever had the displeasure of watching. How completely boring. However, I bet it looks really funny on paper, as it's all clever plays on words, but it gets totally lost in the translation to film.
What I've noticed is Monte Python is not funny at all while watching it, however it is funny to talk about it after suffering through watching it.
I've thought about this a lot, as I've known a lot of people who think it's the best thing since sliced Spam, but I just find it drab and lame. I've even tried watching it again, figuring perhaps when I first watched it I was too young to get the humor, but no change in my observations. My theory is that I am either too smart or too stupid to find it funny. Having presented it like that, I'm sure you'll theorize the latter.:)
But, sorry, I just don't get it. I find Silent Bob or Butt-Head much more entertaining. (Jay and Beavis are just the comic retards that follow the others around.)
I agree that Ubuntu with Synaptic makes life pretty easy. However, how to get MonoDevelop installed WITH the new ASP.NET support in MonoDevelop 0.12? I've tried everything, even set my APT Repositories to Edgy and upgraded to bleeded edge. Got MonoDevelop 0.12, but it's still missing the ASP.NET templates.
No, you get out of my country you weak-spined fool. Are you too stupid to realize that there is only a limited number of resources available? If our team does not use or guard them, then they will be taken by the other teams for their own use, or to be used against us. (Go read "The Tragedy of the Commons")
Nationalism - absolutely! I do not hide from that, I am VERY much in favor of my country. We're I born elsewhere, I would be very in favor of that country instead.
Come talk to me in 10 years when our economy has fallen due to short-sighted idiots like you selling America out for a quick buck and you can no longer feed your family, and you cannot afford a house better than a shed or cardboard box.
Go down to Mexico and take in the 'majestic' site of their two-tier society (Only very rich and very poor), and then come back and tell me that you think that would be better. Cause that's what you're advocating - the selling out of the American middle class so you can buy cheap junk at Walmart. But if you look long term, for each dollar you've saved (short term) by selling out America, you've just fucked yourself out of $20 in the long term. You didn't realize that, did you? I didn't think so.
Do I think this pragmatic point of view is 'right', 'moral', or whatever? No, I don't, it's amoral, not immoral. It's just pure survival. I wish we lived in a 'Star Trek' world. But we don't. So while your point of view is nice and pretty, it's just a hallucination.
In the real world there are mean things with teeth that will take your ability to live without a second thought. They laugh at you behind your back and you feed them, making them stronger for the day that they take your life, your house, your family, your country.
Can you imagine a football team with your attitude? The team walks out on the field, gets the ball, then just wanders around stupidly saying stupid things like "It will make the other team happy if we just give them the ball", "They have a right to our points since we already had some last year", "Sure is cost efficient to just give our jobs to the other team", "Go ! Yay!"
Regardless of how advanced our society is, it's still sink or swim, do or die, us against them. How many millions of good-hearted Americans need to die on this altar before you see the error of your ways?
Maybe try harder. Took me minutes to get it working, a couple hours to understand how to tweak it, and now have multiple copies of Win2K3 server and Ubuntu running on the same machine. Hardest part was figuring out how to get Ubuntu to stop trying for 24-bit color depth, as Virtual Server only supports 16.
Ubuntu is great once you get it installed, but you gotta admit that it's install really sucks as far as configurability goes. Like why can I not directly install to the hard drive from the Ubuntu Live CD? Instead you're stuck with this slow load of the Live CD, just to click an icon that says 'Install' once it's finally up. And that installer locks up half the time. Picky thing having to set IDE=NODMA to install.
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Hmmm... I have an MSDN subscription, and can't seem to find any such documentation. Now what do you suggest I do now?
Don't forget the Microvision, not to be confused with Macrovision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvision
Looking back, I can't believe I ever found this thing entertaining. But it was, till Jimmy Voirol broke into my house and stole. (Ya fuckhead, I knew you did it, your friends narc'd you off, but I was too much of a pussy then to do anything about it.) Lucky I moved to Nebraska or I'd have to look you up and thrash ya. I might have been a skinny 13 year old then, but times have changed.)
"This would be a good time to consider buying some eyewear that will filter out the red, because an accidental burst can get focused onto your retina. That would be bad."
:)
I've had a 'dead pixel' in my eye for about 20 years now after staring directly into the beam of an early grocery store UPC scanner. It's not very big, and I usually do not notice it anymore. But I just did now, thanks.
"Claim that you live in a racist, sexist, redneck hellhole."
That's how Nebraska keeps it's population below 2 million. Keeps the Californians out. But it is also somewhat true. If you're not a church-going republican, you can end up pretty frustrated. Lot's of mentally-blind people here.
A cutting torch? Really?
Explain how to make something that actually cuts out of a DL-DVD laser, for a non-electronics geek, please? I'd like to mess with one.
I thought it was Story ID, but Story ID #1 is from 06-25-01.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1
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Way to buy American there. All we need, more of our money flowing out of this country.
I'm also a senior-level .NET developer, but I'm also pretty accomplished with Linux (Nearly 10 years). (But so what?)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to drop the color depth down to 16 from the default 24 since Virtual Server doesn't support higher than 16 bit color, so your initial install looks all screwy.) which I thought would lead to more problems that installing on a physical machine.)
/etc/apt/sources.list and get rid (or comment out) the line that starts with 'deb cdrom:', and make sure the lines right below starting with 'deb http' and 'deb-src http' are NOT commented out, that way it get's it's updates from the net rather than the local CD which is occasionally flaky as well. Come to my Linux Messagebase if you have more questions.
Anyway, I ran into the same thing with the Ubuntu install CD. It really really sucks that they didn't test it on more hardware. However, what fixes it in about 90% of the installs that result in a kernel panic is simply adding "IDE=NODMA" to the boot parameters. (To do that, on the first menu that comes up after booting from the CD, hit F6 to bring up the boot parameters, get rid of the '--' on the end [Never did figure out what '--' is suppose to mean, anyone know?] and add IDE=NODMA to the end.) For some reason, the Ubuntu installer is trying to access the CD with something messed up in the Direct Memory Access (DMA).
However, I've still found the normal Ubuntu installation to be so problematic on some machines that if I have any problems, I switch over to the ubuntu-server iso and do the installation from that instead (Still doing the IDE=NODMA thing with that). You end up with a text-only install of Ubuntu, but can fix that once it's installed with 'sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop'.
I really like Ubuntu once it's installed, but the actual installation is a huge pain. (What's funny is that it installs under Microsoft Virtual Server with absolutely no problems (Other than having to tweak
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No, you're wrong. That guy says he does it with his 'electric bass' plugged into his Linux laptop. The rest of us are pathetic fuckers that need to buy Rickenbachers. Jeez, get with the program. :)
Damn cats.
Why attack the servers? Sounds to me like these HTML screen readers are the problem, not the servers.
If the screen reader cannot convey the information in a comprehensible manner, then it sounds like they are a broken, fraudulent product. If a visual browser can interpret modern CSS/xHTML and produce a meaningful layout, then perhaps the screen readers need to try a different approach. It's no longer just "reading" the screen like the old text-only HTML days. A modern day 'screen reader' (Really need a different term) should understand DIVs/SPANS/CSS, etc and take that into effect. Not our fault that the screen reader people cannot keep up with technology. If not, maybe we should just go back to text-only green screens and be done with it.
Same thing here, as far as the voting. I am going down the list, and voting against EVERY incumbent. More people need to do the same. Don't worry about which party, just vote against the dipshits currently letting the country be raped under their watch.
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 10? I thought there were only two, at least until #2 replicated itself to turn Jupiter into a star.
"Whoa, it's full of stars" - Neo Bowman
Yah, it'd be better to further sensitize the people, like the Arabs do by not letting women show their faces.
Instead of "Dude, she showed me her nipples!" it'd be like "Dude, she let me look up her nostrils. It was hot!"
After many months of using various AJAX libraries, I watched the Scott Guthrie Introduction to Atlas video. (You can get to it from http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid =63#atlas, and was astounded at how much easier it makes it.
No more having to come up with all kinds of weird JavaScript to do the simplest things. Throw a few normal controls inside of an UpdatePanel, set your triggers, and you've suddenly got a much more responsive web app.
The whole ScriptManager makes it insanely faster to create AJAX apps, no mucking with JavaScript at all. And the JavaScript emitted by the script manager automatically adapts to the browser you are on, FireFox or IE. Surprisingly, being a Microsoft product, some of it actually works better on FireFox. That was a big surprise.
Now I'm just waiting for the actual release. Don't want to get too far into a project with the CTP version, cause you know _something_ will change between the CTP and the actual release.
I'll probably get fried for saying it here, but Microsoft has done a very good thing here.
http://www.riaa.com/tricks/freeboat/warrantapplica tion.html
:( )
(Crap, my Alt tag of "Look mom! Free Boat! Yay!" isn't displayed by slashcode
Holy shit, that sounds pretty much exactly like my story! I think I'm the only one working on it. She cannot see anything good, only the bad. She cannot let go of the past. I think she has somehow moved my image in her mind to the place occupied by her dead, abusive father. Very nice when not mad, but goes off with no apparent trigger. Got mad and moved out last week when I asked her what her problem was after she gave my daughter (her step daughter) enough shit that she started crying.
:)
Oh well, trying counseling for the first time next week. But if she doesn't want to try, not much that can happen. Very heartbreaking to have a 3 year old boy in the mix who does not understand what's going on.
Shoulda listened to my grandma. When I was about 12, I mentioned something about wanting to have a girlfriend, and grandma said "You just stay away from girls. They'll just break your heart and make your life miserable." Best advice I ever got.
Anyone know where to find the Non-Clicky Model Ms? I'm one of the weirdos who loves the feel of the later, cheaper, non-buckling spring Model Ms. But finding them is even harder, I've got two of them.
In my opinion, Monte Python is the least funny excuse for 'comedy' I've ever had the displeasure of watching. How completely boring. However, I bet it looks really funny on paper, as it's all clever plays on words, but it gets totally lost in the translation to film.
:)
What I've noticed is Monte Python is not funny at all while watching it, however it is funny to talk about it after suffering through watching it.
I've thought about this a lot, as I've known a lot of people who think it's the best thing since sliced Spam, but I just find it drab and lame. I've even tried watching it again, figuring perhaps when I first watched it I was too young to get the humor, but no change in my observations. My theory is that I am either too smart or too stupid to find it funny. Having presented it like that, I'm sure you'll theorize the latter.
But, sorry, I just don't get it. I find Silent Bob or Butt-Head much more entertaining. (Jay and Beavis are just the comic retards that follow the others around.)
I agree that Ubuntu with Synaptic makes life pretty easy. However, how to get MonoDevelop installed WITH the new ASP.NET support in MonoDevelop 0.12? I've tried everything, even set my APT Repositories to Edgy and upgraded to bleeded edge. Got MonoDevelop 0.12, but it's still missing the ASP.NET templates.
Anyone know?
No, you get out of my country you weak-spined fool. Are you too stupid to realize that there is only a limited number of resources available? If our team does not use or guard them, then they will be taken by the other teams for their own use, or to be used against us. (Go read "The Tragedy of the Commons")
Nationalism - absolutely! I do not hide from that, I am VERY much in favor of my country. We're I born elsewhere, I would be very in favor of that country instead.
Come talk to me in 10 years when our economy has fallen due to short-sighted idiots like you selling America out for a quick buck and you can no longer feed your family, and you cannot afford a house better than a shed or cardboard box.
Go down to Mexico and take in the 'majestic' site of their two-tier society (Only very rich and very poor), and then come back and tell me that you think that would be better. Cause that's what you're advocating - the selling out of the American middle class so you can buy cheap junk at Walmart. But if you look long term, for each dollar you've saved (short term) by selling out America, you've just fucked yourself out of $20 in the long term. You didn't realize that, did you? I didn't think so.
Do I think this pragmatic point of view is 'right', 'moral', or whatever? No, I don't, it's amoral, not immoral. It's just pure survival. I wish we lived in a 'Star Trek' world. But we don't. So while your point of view is nice and pretty, it's just a hallucination.
In the real world there are mean things with teeth that will take your ability to live without a second thought. They laugh at you behind your back and you feed them, making them stronger for the day that they take your life, your house, your family, your country.
How does an F student get an internship?
"Hey, look, I flunked all my classes! Can I get a job with you? I tried to go to college. I'll bring pot."
Can you imagine a football team with your attitude? The team walks out on the field, gets the ball, then just wanders around stupidly saying stupid things like "It will make the other team happy if we just give them the ball", "They have a right to our points since we already had some last year", "Sure is cost efficient to just give our jobs to the other team", "Go ! Yay!"
Regardless of how advanced our society is, it's still sink or swim, do or die, us against them. How many millions of good-hearted Americans need to die on this altar before you see the error of your ways?
Whose team are you on, anyway?
Maybe try harder. Took me minutes to get it working, a couple hours to understand how to tweak it, and now have multiple copies of Win2K3 server and Ubuntu running on the same machine. Hardest part was figuring out how to get Ubuntu to stop trying for 24-bit color depth, as Virtual Server only supports 16.
Ubuntu is great once you get it installed, but you gotta admit that it's install really sucks as far as configurability goes. Like why can I not directly install to the hard drive from the Ubuntu Live CD? Instead you're stuck with this slow load of the Live CD, just to click an icon that says 'Install' once it's finally up. And that installer locks up half the time. Picky thing having to set IDE=NODMA to install.
Should be enough for anyone!