Like they said, "Stretch of time". The article nailed my specific 'sub generation'.
I had IRC, but not everyone knew how to get onto it. I used ICQ, but there weren't a ton of people on it. MSN and AIM were competing back to back. I had friends in one school district that were on MSN and AIM in another, so I used both. I also used.
It was around 99-00 that AIM started to take dominance among my friends. When I went to college in the Fall of 2001 someone posted a signup sheet in the hall way with AIM screen names. There was no Facebook, some people wrote on whiteboards, most just left AIM messages. Statuses were almost no different than what Facebook status are today, although more to the point of what you were actually doing. "Out to lunch, join us" "Class" "Running", etc. AIM profiles were served from your computer. You really couldn't data mine them and they were also limited in size. The article nails that aspect too. This was also before AIM would let you sign in from multiple locations, so I had my username, and username_laptop for when I was out and about.
Just because you weren't nostalgic for this era, doesn't mean there isn't a chunk of 24-34ish year olds that aren't. And when Facebook declines I'll chuckle to myself when I'm in my 40s and those 30 year olds couldn't imagine life without Facebook.
*There were even "AIM Trackers", since most AIM clients would replace %n with screen names. But they were all too heavy so I wrote my own. It's how I learned MySQL/PHP. I had a 'private' version working for a while but decided to make it generic and let anyone sign up. I finally got http://aim.exstatic.org/ right as AIM seemed to die.
Sid is always "Unstable". (Like in the Movie). "Unstable" (IMHO) has always been 'more' stable and newer than any Ubuntu release. As time rolls on each Ubuntu release gets farther and farther out of date while Sid continually gets updates from experimental.
By time stuff makes it into Stable, it's that STABLE. People that run high end websites would stick to stable. For my desktop, Unstable or Testing is just fine. And if something doesn't work, you can easily roll back a single package to testing or so with the '-t' flag.
Same here. I was locked to 10.04 because that was the last XBMC Live that worked well. Except because of Ubuntu's non-rolling update nature I was stuck at everything that came with 10.04 unless I started adding special repositories.
With Debian. I choose to run Sid, Testing, Stable. Stuff gets pushed forward all the time. Personally I run Sid (not experimental) and I've almost never had a problem.
My girlfriend may get introduced to XFCE because she's not having a fun time with Unity. Day 1) Oh, it looks so Mac Like Day 2) It Doesn't work like your Mac, how do I make it go away.
The multiple file system support is not odd, it sounds exactly what a bootloader needs to do. It needs to load the OS bits. If the OS bits are on ZFS, HFS+, BTRFS, EXT4, FAT-32, etc, you need to have support for GRUB to read them.
update-grub has 2 config file locations:/etc/default and/etc/grub.d. The reason grub.cfg looks so messy is it was auto generated. Auto generated code typically has extra fluff in it. Those config locations just tell the auto generation script what it should do. Look for Linuxes, Look for other OSes, Set the default grub options.
You are more than welcome to write your own grub.cfg file and make it as bare as possible. It's quite easy and it's what I did on my multi-disk boot USB stick. (I use the loop back command in grub all the time.)
1) Tell it where root is 2) Tell it what kernel to load 3) Tell it what initial ramfs to load.
Not all of them. Anyone accessing my 'Projects' Folders wouldn't find anything that wasn't on my Git Hub. Nor would they get much out of my "Spring 2011" homework folder.
HDTV has absolutely ruined the 'high res' monitor market. They keep advertising larger sizes. 20!, 23!, 25! monitors but if you look at the resolution they're all 1920x1080. Monitor prices continue to fall but decent resolution monitors aren't because no one is buying them. All the factories are spitting out HDTV.
Engineers are not business managers. Engineers aren't the ones that decided to go with the 250GB cap, they aren't the one answering subpoenas by the MPAA. I'm not holding my breath if one of these guys gets fired or the engineering manager that green lit this project gets 'reassigned'.
Most engineers that I know are tinkerers and love to solve problems whether it is mechanical, electrical or software. I'm sure they saw it as a challenge.
Timothy McVeigh: "McVeigh claimed to have been a target of bullying at school and that he took refuge in a fantasy world where he retaliated against those bullies." "While in high school, McVeigh became interested in computers and hacked into government computer systems on his Commodore 64" David Koresh: "Due to his poor study skills, he was put in special education classes and nicknamed "Vernie" by his fellow students, but by the age of 11, he had memorized the entire New Testament."
It was ahead of its time. QR Codes are starting to pop up near everywhere. You just need a smartphone. I love them. No more having to punch in a URL when I'm reading the paper, if I'm interested in an Ad, I just take a picture of it.
You can also make your own. Put your 'business card' on the back of your business card and save people from having to type it in. Numerous other uses.
Now be honest, who would you trust more. Some dirty hippy driving around with a video camera making a film.
OR
America's Natural Gas Alliance. That's an American ALLIANCE with AMERICANS. You don't hate America do you? Plus, REGULATORS found it wasn't natural gas. If you can't trust American regulators, who can you trust?
I found it MUCH easier than dating engineers (as I have in the past). This way we can both be smart without much, if any, overlap in knowledge. No fights over who is right or wrong, who did better on tests (when we were in school) etc.
Is this mentality entirely whole American or is this how everyone in Europe thinks about all their government does for them.
Why subsidize the sick population with healthcare? Why subsidize kids with schools? Why subsidize roads for those with cars? Why subsidize those without cars with public transportation? Why subsidize those in rural populations with Internet/Postal Service/etc?
Because it's what makes a society function. When I traveled abroad and the topic of healthcare came up, to the people I was with (Dutch) it just seemed unfathomable not to take care of your fellow Americans. Where as if it's breeched with a large part of the population it's "This is mine, you can't have any." I'm not saying either mentality is wrong but it just seems like a fundamental difference in thinking.
We watch CEOs walk away from failing corporations with hundreds millions of dollars in their hands and people go "meh". But try to get the homeless addict into counseling, off the street and into a productive role in society and everyone is up in arms. I was watching a documentary and people allow it because it's the "American Dream" and if they should ever magically win the lottery or become a multi-national CEO, the don't want that dream taken away from them.
And the most best part, we're a "Christian" nation. As my AP government told us. Jesus is the most popular socialist of all time.
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Like they said, "Stretch of time". The article nailed my specific 'sub generation'.
I had IRC, but not everyone knew how to get onto it. I used ICQ, but there weren't a ton of people on it.
MSN and AIM were competing back to back. I had friends in one school district that were on MSN and AIM in another, so I used both.
I also used.
It was around 99-00 that AIM started to take dominance among my friends. When I went to college in the Fall of 2001 someone posted a signup sheet in the hall way with AIM screen names. There was no Facebook, some people wrote on whiteboards, most just left AIM messages. Statuses were almost no different than what Facebook status are today, although more to the point of what you were actually doing. "Out to lunch, join us" "Class" "Running", etc. AIM profiles were served from your computer. You really couldn't data mine them and they were also limited in size. The article nails that aspect too. This was also before AIM would let you sign in from multiple locations, so I had my username, and username_laptop for when I was out and about.
Just because you weren't nostalgic for this era, doesn't mean there isn't a chunk of 24-34ish year olds that aren't. And when Facebook declines I'll chuckle to myself when I'm in my 40s and those 30 year olds couldn't imagine life without Facebook.
*There were even "AIM Trackers", since most AIM clients would replace %n with screen names. But they were all too heavy so I wrote my own. It's how I learned MySQL/PHP. I had a 'private' version working for a while but decided to make it generic and let anyone sign up. I finally got http://aim.exstatic.org/ right as AIM seemed to die.
Debian Sid is a whole lot better than Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04 right now.
Solaris, uses Grub.
Sid is always "Unstable". (Like in the Movie).
"Unstable" (IMHO) has always been 'more' stable and newer than any Ubuntu release. As time rolls on each Ubuntu release gets farther and farther out of date while Sid continually gets updates from experimental.
By time stuff makes it into Stable, it's that STABLE. People that run high end websites would stick to stable. For my desktop, Unstable or Testing is just fine. And if something doesn't work, you can easily roll back a single package to testing or so with the '-t' flag.
Same here. I was locked to 10.04 because that was the last XBMC Live that worked well. Except because of Ubuntu's non-rolling update nature I was stuck at everything that came with 10.04 unless I started adding special repositories.
With Debian. I choose to run Sid, Testing, Stable. Stuff gets pushed forward all the time. Personally I run Sid (not experimental) and I've almost never had a problem.
My girlfriend may get introduced to XFCE because she's not having a fun time with Unity.
Day 1) Oh, it looks so Mac Like
Day 2) It Doesn't work like your Mac, how do I make it go away.
Which is exactly what this does.
ZFS is FreeBSD/Solaris/OpenIndiana
BTRFS is where Linux is moving
EXT4 is where Linux is.
You just described exactly what GRUB does now.
The multiple file system support is not odd, it sounds exactly what a bootloader needs to do. It needs to load the OS bits. If the OS bits are on ZFS, HFS+, BTRFS, EXT4, FAT-32, etc, you need to have support for GRUB to read them.
How else would you propose it works?
Grub STILL has only one config file: grub.cfg.
update-grub has 2 config file locations: /etc/default and /etc/grub.d. The reason grub.cfg looks so messy is it was auto generated. Auto generated code typically has extra fluff in it. Those config locations just tell the auto generation script what it should do. Look for Linuxes, Look for other OSes, Set the default grub options.
You are more than welcome to write your own grub.cfg file and make it as bare as possible. It's quite easy and it's what I did on my multi-disk boot USB stick. (I use the loop back command in grub all the time.)
1) Tell it where root is
2) Tell it what kernel to load
3) Tell it what initial ramfs to load.
You mean like they had back in the 1970s?
The same way a government can setup a monopoly of companies and be Ok with it.
Japanese laws are not US Laws.
Not all of them. Anyone accessing my 'Projects' Folders wouldn't find anything that wasn't on my Git Hub. Nor would they get much out of my "Spring 2011" homework folder.
Good luck getting at my "Taxes.tc" file.
HDTV has absolutely ruined the 'high res' monitor market. They keep advertising larger sizes. 20!, 23!, 25! monitors but if you look at the resolution they're all 1920x1080. Monitor prices continue to fall but decent resolution monitors aren't because no one is buying them. All the factories are spitting out HDTV.
I found one T221 on ebay. It was 1700$.
Engineers are not business managers. Engineers aren't the ones that decided to go with the 250GB cap, they aren't the one answering subpoenas by the MPAA. I'm not holding my breath if one of these guys gets fired or the engineering manager that green lit this project gets 'reassigned'.
Most engineers that I know are tinkerers and love to solve problems whether it is mechanical, electrical or software. I'm sure they saw it as a challenge.
Timothy McVeigh: "McVeigh claimed to have been a target of bullying at school and that he took refuge in a fantasy world where he retaliated against those bullies." "While in high school, McVeigh became interested in computers and hacked into government computer systems on his Commodore 64"
David Koresh: "Due to his poor study skills, he was put in special education classes and nicknamed "Vernie" by his fellow students, but by the age of 11, he had memorized the entire New Testament."
Smells like capitalism to me.
Your business failed.
C'est la vie.
It was ahead of its time.
QR Codes are starting to pop up near everywhere. You just need a smartphone. I love them. No more having to punch in a URL when I'm reading the paper, if I'm interested in an Ad, I just take a picture of it.
You can also make your own. Put your 'business card' on the back of your business card and save people from having to type it in. Numerous other uses.
Monoprice has numerous ones.
Even ones with buttons
Yeah, but once you're on the ladder, you're on the ladder. (Unless you manage to fall off).
Energy wise this would be like continually jumping up and down.
The Truth About Gasland
Now be honest, who would you trust more. Some dirty hippy driving around with a video camera making a film.
OR
America's Natural Gas Alliance. That's an American ALLIANCE with AMERICANS. You don't hate America do you?
Plus, REGULATORS found it wasn't natural gas. If you can't trust American regulators, who can you trust?
lame memes generated over there.
Lamer in Soviet Russia Natalie Portman covering Beowulf clusters with hot grits through a series of tubes?
You insensitive clod.
I've seen hamsters escape.
I've seen chips use tools at the zoo.
Don't degrade them by lumping them in with Sony Security.
I found it MUCH easier than dating engineers (as I have in the past). This way we can both be smart without much, if any, overlap in knowledge. No fights over who is right or wrong, who did better on tests (when we were in school) etc.
My girlfriend, a doctor, agrees. I just texted her the article and her response:
"We make more patients bc we practice defensive medicine. No one wants to be sued".
What cars use is a drop in the bucket compared to ocean going vessels, powerplants, plastic production and everything else Oil is used for.
Is this mentality entirely whole American or is this how everyone in Europe thinks about all their government does for them.
Why subsidize the sick population with healthcare?
Why subsidize kids with schools?
Why subsidize roads for those with cars?
Why subsidize those without cars with public transportation?
Why subsidize those in rural populations with Internet/Postal Service/etc?
Because it's what makes a society function. When I traveled abroad and the topic of healthcare came up, to the people I was with (Dutch) it just seemed unfathomable not to take care of your fellow Americans. Where as if it's breeched with a large part of the population it's "This is mine, you can't have any." I'm not saying either mentality is wrong but it just seems like a fundamental difference in thinking.
We watch CEOs walk away from failing corporations with hundreds millions of dollars in their hands and people go "meh". But try to get the homeless addict into counseling, off the street and into a productive role in society and everyone is up in arms. I was watching a documentary and people allow it because it's the "American Dream" and if they should ever magically win the lottery or become a multi-national CEO, the don't want that dream taken away from them.
And the most best part, we're a "Christian" nation. As my AP government told us. Jesus is the most popular socialist of all time.
Maybe I just need to move to Europe.