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  1. Re:Installation is a royal pain in the ass on First Community Release of Diaspora · · Score: 1

    Thanks, yes, that's true. I did go the extra mile and got an SSL certificate after all.

  2. Re:How hard can it be... on First Community Release of Diaspora · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's all of the above. It's an open-source social network of migraine-inducing jews who all play the Battlestar Galactica game. Currently, there's only one member, Greg Egan.

  3. Re:Installation is a royal pain in the ass on First Community Release of Diaspora · · Score: 1

    The first problem was that for some reason, I had to re-run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates".

    Then I got an error "markerb ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII" after the command "bundle install --without development test heroku" tells me:

    Using markerb (1.0.0) from https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git (at master)
    ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
    An error occurred while installing markerb (1.0.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
    Make sure that `gem install markerb -v '1.0.0'` succeeds before bundling.

    Solution turned out here to add the following to .bashrc:

    export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
    export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

    I stopped at the point where you configure the webserver, because SSL is required and I don't have an SSL certificate yet for my private webserver.

  4. Installation is a royal pain in the ass on First Community Release of Diaspora · · Score: 2

    Chrissake, this installation is a royal pain in the ass. The number of convoluted steps is just plain crazy.

    First, I have to walk through a long, loooong installation instruction for Debian here. Then I turn to the Notes on installing and running, only to end halfway with a crazy error message.


    diaspora@sirius:~/diaspora$ bundle install --without development test heroku
    Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/......
    Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/..
    Fetching https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git
    error: while accessing https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git/info/refs

    fatal: HTTP request failed
    Git error: command `git clone 'https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git' "/home/diaspora/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@diaspora/cache/bundler/git/markerb-6697fe76410a3ed08ce3f5fd8ee64ebddd200665" --bare --no-hardlinks` in directory /home/diaspora/diaspora has failed.

    Compiling Ruby from scratch, installing cruft in /usr/local, installing something weird called RVM.... What the fuck happened to ./configure && make && make install?

  5. Re:Aging and low-level programming... on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm also interested in the reverse. Has the capability of kernel threads started you thinking about a girlfriend on the side?

  6. Re:What do you think about Haskell? on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Har har please someone mod that up +1 funny

  7. Slashdot Private Message on Facebook Privacy Boosted As Private Message 'Leak' Is Dismissed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi Rob,

    God you really got out of this hell hole on time. That cocksucker from Dice Holdings walks around like he's the king or something. Chrissake he told me to come on time tomorrow! And of course sourceforge is acting up and the guys over there aren't so chummy anymore, we're just another user to them.

    Say, do you remember where we put the design document on the private messages system? There's several bugs open, but CowboyNeal wrote that module so you probably have an idea of the "quality" of the code. He's a fucking monkey felcher and you know it.

    Anyway, see you Saturday in town. We can talk about Kathleen and Jeff, and again, I'm sorry you had to go through her email to find out about them. I'm going to fucking kill that asshole.

    Cheers
    Timothy

  8. Re:Harm to consumers on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you're on the side of MS in this matter, then you are against the industry effort to create a Do Not Track standard.

  9. Re:I'm getting concerned.... on Lingering Questions On the Extent of the Adobe Hack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Knowing Adobe, I would actually expect the service to get better.

  10. Re:Python 3 and its use on Python 3.3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I remember yum hitting 1 GB allocated memory on RedHat 5 when updating. The lead developer told me that he couldn't do anything about that, it was just the size of the repository.

    Yum is not bad, but far from a Python poster child.

  11. Re:Python 3 and its use on Python 3.3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    He does have a point. I love Red Hat and derivatives, I program daily in Python, but you can call yum anything but speedy.

  12. My idea on Steve Jobs Joins House of Wax · · Score: 1, Funny

    based on pictures taken of the tech innovator during a 2006 Fortune magazine shoot and shows the Apple Inc. cofounder in a relaxed position, arms crossed loosely over his chest, with a pair of silver-rimmed Lunor glasses perched on his face and wearing a black cotton turtle neck

    ... with the text "First Class A*hole" carefully embroidered in large, friendly letters.

  13. Re:Irony on Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04 · · Score: 1

    Next time I'll take a page out of your book and log my bugs anonymously :)

  14. Good news! on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    Nice! The wife has been adamantly polishing her moral compass until it shined. So bright that my idea of a girlfriend on the side got completely blotted out in the radiance. These scientist could help and adjust her moral compas somewhat, so I can get back some of the fun in my life!

    Note that my own moral compass points to the gutter, thus it doesn't need adjustment.

  15. Re:Irony on Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04 · · Score: 1

    Even better is if you have the machine and the user right next to you and shows you how to reproduce the bug, and then leaves the machine with you (and the user leaves the room...or better, the city).

    See, this is why I don't log bugs. The chance is just too big where some neckbeard poisons my mountain dew and throws my body in the dumpster, just to fix this bug in peace.

  16. Treat it like insurance on Ask Slashdot: Best Protection Plan For Your Phone? · · Score: 1

    You should treat it like any other thing that you normally insure, in my opinion. The first question whether to insure is, can I pay for repairing myself, out of pocket?

    If yes, don't insure. That's my personal policy.

  17. Re:HUGE DECLINE on Is iPhone Battery Usefulness On the Decline? · · Score: 1

    I always need a power outlet nearby when traveling, and I cannot count on it lasting a full day

    Last year my iPhone 3G broke (somehow I lost all phone reception), but money was really tight at that point in time. So I bought a cheap Samsung android phone which basically is specced the same as a 3GS. However the battery is replaceable... I bought three extra batteries and when travelling, I always have a bunch of fully-charged batteries. This is such a useful thing when you're travelling, that I'm really doubting whether to go back to an iPhone again. (I do have an iPad).

  18. Re:Fun vs Happy on Ask Slashdot: How Much Is a Fun Job Worth? · · Score: 5, Funny

    As Confucius said "Find a job you like, and you will never work again"

    That was easy for him to say. Confucius famously owned several brothels.

  19. Re:Good for Whom? on Amazon Now Discounting HarperCollins EBooks · · Score: 1

    On the other end of the scale are the books I will be writing. (...) Nearly everyone can be published now. The downside is there isn't any more money to o around.

    So your point is: "There is a lot of crap, and the good stuff, like my books, won't be noticed. And if they'll be noticed, I will barely earn any money."

    But you act like that's some special case. It's actually normal, don't you see that? People have to work long and hard to get noticed in some markets. I'm a part-time iPhone app developer. What is the chance I'll earn an honest wage for my time? Take a guess. A friend of mine is a musician. Another friend of mine is an actor. I could go on and on.

    I'd like to tell authors and publishers: get the fuck off your high horse and join the rest of us. We don't feel entitled to some fairytale stream of money that we somehow "deserve", and neither should you.

  20. Re:May I say... on For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread · · Score: 1

    could they stop naming the operating system to appeal to six-year-old girls

    I'd go with a really brutal naming scheme, that doesn't appeal but actually repels little girls.
    "Raging death-penis"
    "Blood-soaked kill-sword"
    "Liquid-shit-drinking face-eater"
    "Murderous thunder-horse"
    "Rampaging destructionoid"
    That sort of thing. Ringtones could be themed along with the name, whenever a text comes in, you'd hear a soul-wrenching, agonizing scream.

  21. Re:Obligatory on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 1

    The cook can be infected the same way so you've gotta make sure none of the restaurants that the cook has ever eaten at has a cook who immigrated from an infected country or has eaten at a restaurant where the cook...

    Also, since cooks eat other cooks to level up, a high-level cook has a high chance to be infected.

  22. Re:IKEA Stand Up Desk on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On Stand-Up Desks? · · Score: 1

    You get the Vika Amon table top (under $40) and the Vika Bysske table legs

    Sounds nice in theory, but is it sturdy enough to have sex on? That should be your main question when shopping for furniture.

  23. Re:I Use Words Good on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I imagine a sufficiently clever hacker could think of a way to bypass the guest OS and the hypervisor and do wacky things, But it's one hell of a lot harder than breaking out of a JVM sandbox.

    No, it's not:
    Script Error Opens up Security Hole in Xen 3.0.3

    It's an easy trap to fall for, I grant you that. I was on the same line of thinking until my server got hacked with exactly the above mentioned bug.

  24. Re:What? This story isn't about Linux on Valve Finds Open Source Drivers To Be Great · · Score: 1

    At the end of the day, it's totally irrelevant to people who want to play new games on modern GPU's

    I wonder, though.... I have the feeling that there are two groups nowadays. People who'd call themselves "gamers", and people who play games but casually enough to not label themselves. It wouldn't surprise me if the second group is much bigger, and these are the exact people who just buy a laptop and then as an afterthought, try to play a game with it. For this group, Intel is creating hardware.

  25. Re:Hotmail for storage? on Microsoft's Sneak Attack On Apple: SkyDrive, Not Surface · · Score: 1

    And let's not forget it was Google who suffered a major crash that lost people's emails, so you can't truth them on reliability either.

    The accounts were restored. Don't take my word for it, read the Wall Street Journal.