xp was what finally drove me away from microsoft entirely.
i won't do business with a company that presumes i am guilty of software piracy. i find it incredible that people who give money to folks that treat them like criminals.
'Dude are you kidding or just trolling? What in the world would make you turn off your firewall to use eBay? That is the dumbest thing in the world. So now your MS Windows box is vulnerable just to use eBay? Also, what crap are you spewing about "how to get online and interface with eBay" with Linux? Err, I just open up my browser under Linux (Firefox) and type in www.ebay.com. Wow. It works. Is that hard or something?'
I think you are missing the point, AstroDrabb. The user is saying that s/he doesn't magically know ifconfig eth0 inet 192.169.10.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 up to bring up a nic behind a router on a lan. Or does not know to look in/etc for the dhcp config file. Or does not know how to edit the files in the ppp dir to bring up a dial up connection. or resolv.conf. or. or...
The point is that it takes time to learn how to manipulate files to achieve the desired result. While time is also required to make windows do what you want, I think we can both admit that microsoft flattens the learning curve considerably.
The parent post does not think the time spent learning linux is worthwhile. I think the ebay user is mistaken. Give unix a month of honest effort. If you still do not know how to connect to the net after that month, then you're correct, it was a waste of time. I think you'll like what you learn in that month though, and want to stay with unix. It's beautiful out here.
Sigh. Watches.
In my environment, the band breaks in less than a week. So the watch goes in my pocket, where the crystal face may last as long as two weeks. I just don't get watches = (.
"a simple problem in theoretical computer science."
"Which is not exactly true. It could be true but not provable. It could be false but not provable. It could be provably true, or provably false. Or, it could be neither true nor false."
Context. In computer science, all objects may have only one of two states. zero or one. on or off.
Now, whether zero maps to true or zero maps to false, *that's* an open question. = )
...or a solar cell used to recharge the compound that best recharges with a slow, small current? Ah, but we need fast discharge, yes? Don't they make these things called capacitors? I am kind of shocked that nobody else has mentioned solar power. Seems obvious.
-T
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obviously, irrefutably, vampire fangs.
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VIIV
see?
Coining the ideoplast, The Conservation of Karma, is brilliant. Relating this to The Conservation of Energy is beautiful. Thank you.
gah. why?
xp was what finally drove me away from microsoft entirely.
i won't do business with a company that presumes i am guilty of software piracy. i find it incredible that people who give money to folks that treat them like criminals.
well, you did say you were the only one...
no.
>>Maybe to funny.
>You were doing so well...
Nah, that's a common phrase around here. Kind of like fair to midland.
"How ya doing, Bob?"
"Oh, maybe to funny."
'Dude are you kidding or just trolling? What in the world would make you turn off your firewall to use eBay? That is the dumbest thing in the world. So now your MS Windows box is vulnerable just to use eBay? Also, what crap are you spewing about "how to get online and interface with eBay" with Linux? Err, I just open up my browser under Linux (Firefox) and type in www.ebay.com. Wow. It works. Is that hard or something?'
/etc for the dhcp config file. Or does not know how to edit the files in the ppp dir to bring up a dial up connection. or resolv.conf. or. or...
I think you are missing the point, AstroDrabb. The user is saying that s/he doesn't magically know ifconfig eth0 inet 192.169.10.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 up to bring up a nic behind a router on a lan. Or does not know to look in
The point is that it takes time to learn how to manipulate files to achieve the desired result. While time is also required to make windows do what you want, I think we can both admit that microsoft flattens the learning curve considerably.
The parent post does not think the time spent learning linux is worthwhile. I think the ebay user is mistaken. Give unix a month of honest effort. If you still do not know how to connect to the net after that month, then you're correct, it was a waste of time. I think you'll like what you learn in that month though, and want to stay with unix. It's beautiful out here.
Sigh. Watches. In my environment, the band breaks in less than a week. So the watch goes in my pocket, where the crystal face may last as long as two weeks. I just don't get watches = (.
Aye mon, lynx is ver' handy when ya need to read docs, an have not yet or do not intend to setup an X server. Lynx definitely has it's uses.
"a simple problem in theoretical computer science."
"Which is not exactly true. It could be true but not provable. It could be false but not provable. It could be provably true, or provably false. Or, it could be neither true nor false."
Context. In computer science, all objects may have only one of two states. zero or one. on or off.
Now, whether zero maps to true or zero maps to false, *that's* an open question. = )
*Cthulhu not drawn to scale.
hahahahahaha
seriously.
you brightened a bad day for me.
thank you = )
For web/mail/chat,
FreeBSD, gnome-sawfish, mozilla, and xchat.
scripts to send you their ip, and a ssh port opened up.
let them know what you are doing and how, talk to them.
and no, they do not get root until they figure out how to boot into single user = )
cheers,
Tomas
...or a solar cell used to recharge the compound that best recharges with a slow, small current? Ah, but we need fast discharge, yes? Don't they make these things called capacitors? I am kind of shocked that nobody else has mentioned solar power. Seems obvious. -T