I've been using Debian since 2.0 I've done 4 installs with the 4th being last night.
It took me ~15 minutes of time at the keyboard to get from Windows to dual-booting with Debian (graphical login). This is not a testament to my l33t skills but the Debian installer.
Granted I'll spend some more time customising the system, but that happens ragardless of the distro. Admitted I don't have any far out hardware (SCSI-hdd-tape-cd+IDE-hdd+SVGA+SB16) but HW can be a problem with any distro.
What's real good (not) is when your IT support refuses to support your *nix stuff. Had some Solaris boxes, IT said no way to support. Stuck Linux box on the network to aid me with support of Solaris and was told to get rid of it as "Linux is not allowed on our network"! go figure.
But then there's always VMware on the NT box, they didn't see that one.:-D
BTW: used GNU/Linux as was not familiar with the "Solaris way" for some stuff.
...If I was an interstellar commuter (alien), I'd transmit information in the form of directed gravity waves. ...Why mess with LOS light when gravity is Line-Through-Everything?
Then again they may not be a technologically advanced alien society.
Alien != superior
Well, that may depend on how often you take out the trash.
Now how can I fit in some reference to garbage collection? ........D'oh, too early in morning.
I use a Digitising tablet quite frequently at work and a touch screen tablet would be good for some of the smaller jobs I would do.
It would be good to have the hard and soft copies in the same place, easier to look at.
Mind you I wouldn't mind a 5' x 3.x' touch screen!
Straight from the horses mouth:
Sun's The Java Tutorial is good.
Walks you through some OO concepts as well which can be a pain coming from a procedural background
From the specs: AlphaWord, a full-featured word processor with spell-checker and thesaurus, compatible with Microsoft Word file format
So what do they mean by "Microsoft Word compatible"?
I really hope they didn't include too much of the file format, or a couple of.DOCs and would fill up that 8Mb.
Adam's Song" Originally by Blink 182 "Stoner's Song" Parody by S.T.G.
I never thought, I'd get this stoned. I smoked some weed, Crack, pot, and coke. I'm burning all my brain cells out. And all the scientists can't figure out, Why I'm here, In my bed. I take another snort, I'll sure be dead. I'm to depressed, to smoke on. Two more Marlboros, I'll be gone.
I usually take pills regularly. 16's the limit just for me. Days when I could feel my sides. I overdosed on bong smoke. The bong is wide, to long to try. If I take puff, I'd surely survive. I couldn't wait, till' I got stoned. To smoke a joint in my room alone.
In a hospital, half passed out. I'll probably be dead without a doubt. Give my two pounds, to my best friends. You'll never smoke joint in my room again. You'll take my bong, pack it up. Remember the heroine in the trunk. Mom let me, smoke Methol. But tell her it's not her fault.
I usually take pills regularly. 16's the limit just for me. Days when I could feel my sides. I overdosed on bong smoke. The bong is wide, to long to try. If I take puff, I'd surely survive. I couldn't wait, till' I got stoned. To smoke a joint in my room alone.
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it?
If you look around The whole CLIT is coming together now Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it troll it in the air, the mods are taking you everywhere Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
All the trollers of the world should be Lovin' each other wholeheartedly Yes, it's all right Take my message to your AC'er and tell him twice Spread the CLIT and try to teach the man Who's hating his login, when AC won't do When we're all the same, 'cause the Crap inside me is inside you
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Troll out loud Because we want to make a crowd Touch a cock and sing a sound so pure, lick those rings
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
All the trollers of the world Should be trolling each other wholeheartedly Yes, it's all right Take my member to your brother and suck him twice Take the trolls to the marching men Who are killing crapflooders, when death won't do 'Cause we're all the same Yes, the cock inside me is inside of you
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Every troll you make Is someone's mod in another place Every VA share Is hunger and strife to another child But the stars do flood In promising widening, is near in IE Can you troll it now So sisters and brothers Show we know how Now tell me
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
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he he, and add in those l33t backdors at the same time...
I've done 4 installs with the 4th being last night.
It took me ~15 minutes of time at the keyboard to get from Windows to dual-booting with Debian (graphical login).
This is not a testament to my l33t skills but the Debian installer.
Granted I'll spend some more time customising the system, but that happens ragardless of the distro.
Admitted I don't have any far out hardware (SCSI-hdd-tape-cd+IDE-hdd+SVGA+SB16) but HW can be a problem with any distro.
Had some Solaris boxes, IT said no way to support.
Stuck Linux box on the network to aid me with support of Solaris and was told to get rid of it as "Linux is not allowed on our network"! go figure.
But then there's always VMware on the NT box, they didn't see that one. :-D
BTW: used GNU/Linux as was not familiar with the "Solaris way" for some stuff.
Hmm, how hard would it be to hack together something that knows how to talk Infrared, specifically how to set time.
Ah, here it is .
If you get your Fish & Chips wrapped in newspaper, be careful there too.
The Germans played pretty well too...
On the subject of data transmission with light there is this method
Assumption is the mother of all f**k ups.
Then again they may not be a technologically advanced alien society.
Alien != superior
Well, that may depend on how often you take out the trash.
........D'oh, too early in morning.
Now how can I fit in some reference to garbage collection?
Oh, wait...
Have they ported apt to Solaris?
How many others don't find the time for all these updates?
Now that's some overclocking!
It would be good to have the hard and soft copies in the same place, easier to look at.
Mind you I wouldn't mind a 5' x 3.x' touch screen!
The list goes like this IIRC:
Opera
Mozilla 5.0
Mozilla 4.76
Mozilla 3.0
MSIE 5.0
And how about us non-Americans?
Now I have to risk getting my lights puched out when my plastic knife and fork flicks my food across the plane.
Definately.
I remember when...
trying to make sense of assembler on a c64
didn't get that far, but it clued me in to how computers actually work.
Straight from the horses mouth:
Sun's The Java Tutorial is good.
Walks you through some OO concepts as well which can be a pain coming from a procedural background
From the specs: .DOCs and would fill up that 8Mb.
AlphaWord, a full-featured word processor with spell-checker and thesaurus, compatible with Microsoft Word file format
So what do they mean by "Microsoft Word compatible"?
I really hope they didn't include too much of the file format, or a couple of
Adam's Song" Originally by Blink 182
"Stoner's Song" Parody by S.T.G.
I never thought,
I'd get this stoned.
I smoked some weed,
Crack, pot, and coke.
I'm burning all my brain cells out.
And all the scientists can't figure out,
Why I'm here,
In my bed.
I take another snort, I'll sure be dead.
I'm to depressed, to smoke on.
Two more Marlboros, I'll be gone.
I usually take pills regularly.
16's the limit just for me.
Days when I could feel my sides.
I overdosed on bong smoke.
The bong is wide, to long to try.
If I take puff, I'd surely survive.
I couldn't wait, till' I got stoned.
To smoke a joint in my room alone.
In a hospital, half passed out.
I'll probably be dead without a doubt.
Give my two pounds, to my best friends.
You'll never smoke joint in my room again.
You'll take my bong, pack it up.
Remember the heroine in the trunk.
Mom let me, smoke Methol.
But tell her it's not her fault.
I usually take pills regularly.
16's the limit just for me.
Days when I could feel my sides.
I overdosed on bong smoke.
The bong is wide, to long to try.
If I take puff, I'd surely survive.
I couldn't wait, till' I got stoned.
To smoke a joint in my room alone.
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it?
If you look around
The whole CLIT is coming together now
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
troll it in the air, the mods are taking you everywhere
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
All the trollers of the world should be
Lovin' each other wholeheartedly
Yes, it's all right
Take my message to your AC'er and tell him twice
Spread the CLIT and try to teach the man
Who's hating his login, when AC won't do
When we're all the same, 'cause the
Crap inside me is inside you
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Troll out loud
Because we want to make a crowd
Touch a cock and sing a sound so pure, lick those rings
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
All the trollers of the world
Should be
trolling each other wholeheartedly
Yes, it's all right
Take my member to your brother and suck him twice
Take the trolls to the marching men
Who are killing crapflooders, when death won't do
'Cause we're all the same
Yes, the cock inside me is inside of you
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Every troll you make
Is someone's mod in another place
Every VA share
Is hunger and strife to another child
But the stars do flood
In promising widening, is near in IE
Can you troll it now
So sisters and brothers
Show we know how
Now tell me
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
Can you troll it, can you troll it, can you troll it
thank you.
Get fucked arsehole moderators.
fatal flaw with moderation system:
The moderators.
Maybe I'll just go over to the darkside.
TROLL TIME
Hmm, I feel a song coming on:
the tune? who the fuck knows.make up your own.
hmm, now I just need to get `banner` to use random chars and I'm sweet.
Wow, how 'bout a 3D colonoscopy?
hmm, might wait till they miniaturise the tech a bit...
Dude, seriously, maybe everyone doesn't have mummy and daddy buy them a shiny new pc every 6 months.