There is to people who are very tech-oriented like we are. My dad, who is pretty handy with a computer, knows only mp3, wma, and wav. Your standard to slightly above-standard user isn't going to be able to tell you a single damn difference between mp3 and ogg. Hell, as I'm just a programmer weinie/college student, I can only name mp3, wma, ogg, that shitty atrac-3, flac, aac, and mpc. I'm sure there are quite a few that I'm totally missing here, but you see where I'm coming from.
The day my mom mentions using bittorrent, I'm going to shed a tear in joy. She's barely email-capable now, that kinda change would be like a paradigm shift without a clutch!
I've been nadadogg in most places since I worked staff at camp avondale in summer 96. Not quite as long as some of you folks, but being from south Louisiana, I'm a bit behind the curve:)
Any board made in the past year or so can handle drives greater than 137 gigs, but if you choose to run a BSD or linux distro, it can recognize sizes that your motherboard may not. My pre-sp1 xp install only saw 137 gigs of my 160 gig secondary drive, but my debian install on the same box saw the "missing" ~23 gigs. It just depends on your OS of choice. Hell, I've heard of people with old PII boards and BSD using 160gig hard drives without a problem.
What computing JOB can be done in Windows that can't be done as well or better by a Mac or Linux?
People who work in microsoft access, like most of my office.
This new exploit, while crap for everyone else, gives me the push I need to roll out Firefox to the entire office.
Good plan, but whatever you do, do NOT use Nair. It began as a semi-pleasant tingle, then it felt like the fires of hell combined with the ice of the south pole, all fighting for delivering the maximum amount of pain to my scrotum.
That brings us to a far better idea.
Genital-prints!
Everyone hoo-ha and wingwang are unique, like snowflakes. The wrinkles, bumps, and lumps we all love so much can protect us from identity thieves!
Addendum to previous statement: In any thread, anywhere on slashdot, add "on my gentoo box(en)" or "...switching to gentoo from windows" for extra positive moderation.
Disclaimer: I primarily run windows at home, but will be building a mythtv machine pretty soon, it will run either mandrake or ubuntu. At work it's 90% windows, 10 % redhat8/debian.
Hey, how about you just be thankful for the fact that this is online for free, instead of complaining about a totally free service that you get for free on a website that you don't have to pay to access.
I was sick and tired of trying to play The Specialists and hearing people having shouting matches about bush vs kerry, as I play games to get away from the BS of daily life, not hear politics. I just want to sign on, shoot some people in the face, maybe let out some cusswords, do the SSS(shit, shower, shave), and go to bed.
You know, about 6 years ago, I learned a wonderful word. Ethnocentric. Without whipping out a dictionary, it basically means that I find my own country/culture(American) superior to all others.
Damn, I really love that word. You know what else I love? Hookers and blow, and also apple pie. I love my country, and enjoy the fact that my president now, and for the next 4 years, is a hell-raising texas cowboy who doesn't fuck around or take shit. Damn, I went a bit off-topic there, but hey, it happens:)
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There is to people who are very tech-oriented like we are. My dad, who is pretty handy with a computer, knows only mp3, wma, and wav. Your standard to slightly above-standard user isn't going to be able to tell you a single damn difference between mp3 and ogg. Hell, as I'm just a programmer weinie/college student, I can only name mp3, wma, ogg, that shitty atrac-3, flac, aac, and mpc. I'm sure there are quite a few that I'm totally missing here, but you see where I'm coming from.
If you'd take your mouse finger off the post button and RTFA, you'd see that they were selling modded boxes with retail games pre-loaded.
No! NO! Bad penis! No looking up porno at work! Ignore the cute co-worker!
The day my mom mentions using bittorrent, I'm going to shed a tear in joy. She's barely email-capable now, that kinda change would be like a paradigm shift without a clutch!
I've been nadadogg in most places since I worked staff at camp avondale in summer 96. Not quite as long as some of you folks, but being from south Louisiana, I'm a bit behind the curve :)
I'm not sure, but it was moving at about 40m/second.
That sounds neat as all heck. Where did you do this at? Of course, you probably live in a "real" city with "technology", not south damn Louisiana.
Or get road head from hot chicks while driving 100+ miles per hour! Road vibrations baby, road vibrations.
Any board made in the past year or so can handle drives greater than 137 gigs, but if you choose to run a BSD or linux distro, it can recognize sizes that your motherboard may not. My pre-sp1 xp install only saw 137 gigs of my 160 gig secondary drive, but my debian install on the same box saw the "missing" ~23 gigs. It just depends on your OS of choice. Hell, I've heard of people with old PII boards and BSD using 160gig hard drives without a problem.
Or a nerd on a bike with a backpack full of CD-R's
Hot damn, talk about the goose that laid the golden eggs!
What computing JOB can be done in Windows that can't be done as well or better by a Mac or Linux? People who work in microsoft access, like most of my office. This new exploit, while crap for everyone else, gives me the push I need to roll out Firefox to the entire office.
Good plan, but whatever you do, do NOT use Nair. It began as a semi-pleasant tingle, then it felt like the fires of hell combined with the ice of the south pole, all fighting for delivering the maximum amount of pain to my scrotum.
So... The lone coder is freeBSD? :)
Poor John Bobbit can't pull money out of his ATM anymore :(
That brings us to a far better idea.
Genital-prints! Everyone hoo-ha and wingwang are unique, like snowflakes. The wrinkles, bumps, and lumps we all love so much can protect us from identity thieves!
Addendum to previous statement: In any thread, anywhere on slashdot, add "on my gentoo box(en)" or "...switching to gentoo from windows" for extra positive moderation.
Disclaimer: I primarily run windows at home, but will be building a mythtv machine pretty soon, it will run either mandrake or ubuntu. At work it's 90% windows, 10 % redhat8/debian.
That linux telephony stuff is pretty darn spiffy, and a far better example than my 2-word answer.
Support contracts
Hey, how about you just be thankful for the fact that this is online for free, instead of complaining about a totally free service that you get for free on a website that you don't have to pay to access.
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I didn't even have to click it. I'm already there, man!
score +1, hot!
I was sick and tired of trying to play The Specialists and hearing people having shouting matches about bush vs kerry, as I play games to get away from the BS of daily life, not hear politics.
I just want to sign on, shoot some people in the face, maybe let out some cusswords, do the SSS(shit, shower, shave), and go to bed.
Perhaps if you put the dead badger in a toaster first, and ran BSD on the toaster...
You know, about 6 years ago, I learned a wonderful word. Ethnocentric. Without whipping out a dictionary, it basically means that I find my own country/culture(American) superior to all others. :)
Damn, I really love that word. You know what else I love? Hookers and blow, and also apple pie. I love my country, and enjoy the fact that my president now, and for the next 4 years, is a hell-raising texas cowboy who doesn't fuck around or take shit.
Damn, I went a bit off-topic there, but hey, it happens
Here's a link for the lazy folks who wanna keep track of temps.