So, when you are lying on the floor, holding on, so as not to fall off the planet and you can't return the mug to the coaster, since your arm is too short and you can't find the table anyway, since it isn't down there, then the barkeep will keep bringing you more beer? There is something fundamentally flawed with this design.
A raccoon can probably gnaw his way through a door, but I doubt they will turn the knob and open it.
It is kinda scary when the back door of the cottage suddenly opens and a 5 foot tall 300lb hairy black monster is looking you in the eye - though I guess it regularly happens in US cities too...
"Actually, some folks think baboons are more intelligent than gorillas... Steve Van Nattan is one. Here's a really odd..."
Uhh, are you saying that Steve van Nattan is a baboon or a gorilla?
I have seen baboons open doors, open garbage cans, whack things with sticks, whack shellfish with rocks - and baboons are held to be less intelligent than other great apes.
In my opinion MS Office is perfectly adequate, but not at the MS price point. If they sold MS Office for $50 then it would have been fine. Same with Windows itself. I actually like using WinXP, but not at $200 - that is totally overpriced.
Therefore, my main gripe with MS boils down to a lack of competition causing rip-off prices.
Many moons ago, word processor software was sufficiently cheap, that most corporations had two or three different word processor packages on each desktop and people used whichever one supported the file format.
If MS Word cost $50, then the same would happen again and people would have MS Word, OOo, WP, KOffice etc and nobody would bat an eye about compatibility issues, All this drivel about compatibility and retraining is just a stupid non-issue, caused by the inflated pricing of MS products.
On the contrary - it will boost the bottom line of all small sharp pointy little thingy manufacturers, since people have to keep buying new sharp pointy little thingies wherever they go.
Rsync is a 'better copy command'. Apart from using it over the internet over SSH, you can also use it to mirror a HDD to another HDD, or to a USB stick for example. Write a little script and put it in/etc/cron.daily.
Wow, 64MB makes things pretty hard, but Puppy Linux will run nicely on 128MB. An old $50 recycled laptop with a working CDROM drive and off you go - it doesn't even need a hard disk.
Yes, well, hunger is actually a self correcting problem, while the only way to ensure that the "feed the children" charities can grow, is to actually feed some children, so that there can be more to feed the next year...
Oh, you horrible, horrible person. Speaking the truth like that will destroy the whole "donate to the hungry tearful children and save the world" enterprise.
"The fact that their website is broken in Firefox isn't exactly a ringing endorsement."
Well, yeah, that would contribute I guess. On my technical site, FF use is more than 50%. On a lawyer web site that I host, it is around 22%. That is according to Apache logs which is as good a statistic as one is going to get.
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Oh, man, this is the best comment in this thread.
Useful? Hell, the inventor should be shot. What insensitive clod would design something to replace a sexy, breasty, scantily clad bar girl???
So, when you are lying on the floor, holding on, so as not to fall off the planet and you can't return the mug to the coaster, since your arm is too short and you can't find the table anyway, since it isn't down there, then the barkeep will keep bringing you more beer? There is something fundamentally flawed with this design.
Hmm, being a regular male chauvinist pig, I think I much prefer a breasty bar girl in a short skirt coming to ask me whether I want another...
Hell yeah, a racoon of that size would indeed be more scary than a baboon.
A raccoon can probably gnaw his way through a door, but I doubt they will turn the knob and open it. It is kinda scary when the back door of the cottage suddenly opens and a 5 foot tall 300lb hairy black monster is looking you in the eye - though I guess it regularly happens in US cities too...
"Actually, some folks think baboons are more intelligent than gorillas... Steve Van Nattan is one. Here's a really odd..." Uhh, are you saying that Steve van Nattan is a baboon or a gorilla?
That video is different. It doesn't display any intelligence.
I have seen baboons open doors, open garbage cans, whack things with sticks, whack shellfish with rocks - and baboons are held to be less intelligent than other great apes.
are you subscribed to Sloshdat? Get a life man.
In my opinion MS Office is perfectly adequate, but not at the MS price point. If they sold MS Office for $50 then it would have been fine. Same with Windows itself. I actually like using WinXP, but not at $200 - that is totally overpriced.
Therefore, my main gripe with MS boils down to a lack of competition causing rip-off prices.
That is hillarious.
Many moons ago, word processor software was sufficiently cheap, that most corporations had two or three different word processor packages on each desktop and people used whichever one supported the file format.
If MS Word cost $50, then the same would happen again and people would have MS Word, OOo, WP, KOffice etc and nobody would bat an eye about compatibility issues, All this drivel about compatibility and retraining is just a stupid non-issue, caused by the inflated pricing of MS products.
On the contrary - it will boost the bottom line of all small sharp pointy little thingy manufacturers, since people have to keep buying new sharp pointy little thingies wherever they go.
Rsync is a 'better copy command'. Apart from using it over the internet over SSH, you can also use it to mirror a HDD to another HDD, or to a USB stick for example. Write a little script and put it in /etc/cron.daily.
Rsync is your friend:h tml
http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/rsync-ssh-howto.
Answer from circa 1975:
Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks.
Answer from circa 2005:
Internet + WinScp, FileZilla, PuTTY or OpenSSH
On Win XP Home:
Fuhgedaboudit - get a real OS.
On WinXP Pro:
Right click, properties, advanced, encrypt folder.
On Mandriva Linux:
Drakloop
Both of these solutions work the same. When you mount it, it will ask for the password, after that, the encryption is transparent.
Well, I do have a box full of floppies in the basement somewhere under the cobwebs and there should be a floppy drive in the bottom of my junk box...
On Windoze, Filezilla rulez...
Better: My 128MB Flash thingy boots Puppy Linux AND has all my files on it.
Wow, 64MB makes things pretty hard, but Puppy Linux will run nicely on 128MB. An old $50 recycled laptop with a working CDROM drive and off you go - it doesn't even need a hard disk.
Yes, well, hunger is actually a self correcting problem, while the only way to ensure that the "feed the children" charities can grow, is to actually feed some children, so that there can be more to feed the next year...
Oh, you horrible, horrible person. Speaking the truth like that will destroy the whole "donate to the hungry tearful children and save the world" enterprise.
"The fact that their website is broken in Firefox isn't exactly a ringing endorsement." Well, yeah, that would contribute I guess. On my technical site, FF use is more than 50%. On a lawyer web site that I host, it is around 22%. That is according to Apache logs which is as good a statistic as one is going to get.
Yup, I have found that ordinary folks think that crashing computers and spyware is normal and that all computers are like that.