That reminds me of something... Soon I'll be on some kind of mini-convention where 60 people share three PCs on an ISDN line and there's no way to connect your own box to the network.
Maybe I can let my Vx use my mobile as a modem to download/. and then hotsync it onto my PC from where I can read it comfortably.
Or maybe I'd rather spend that money on getting some counselling...
c) Used computing devices require, like real estate, an abstract of title before being sold.
Just wait; in 2010 the Fritz chips in your hardware will be registered to your personal GUID (issued to you by the World Gov-- Trusted Computing Group). Then you wil have to call the TCG to request an un-registration form whenever you want to sell your computer, your car, your VCR or your kid's Furby II.
I recently-ish switched from a pure Win XP setup to a dualboot Linux/Windows setup*. Using Linux is completely different than using Windows.
While I spend much of my time running Windows inside the Explorer. The keyboard is mainly used for shortcuts.
In Linux (using KDE) everything's different: I only use Konqueror if I have to move lots of individual files. Everything else is dome from a Konsole. If I need a file manager I use the Midnight Commander. Often I favor running a program from the Konsole over just clicking it in the K Menu.
Even though Linux is getting more like Windows (GUI-wise) it still has a long way to go before it is as point-and-clicky as every Slashdotter's "favourite" OS. Until then, Windows will beat it in the popularity ratings without even trying.
* Windows is necessary if you want any serious graphics editing without having a degree in GIMP usage. The GIMP has easily the most awkward and confusing design of any graphics editor I have ever seen.
I totally thought you were going somewhere else with that sentence.
If "slept" is used in that connotation the sounds can still be amazing.
What's more intersting to me - enjoying flowers with all five senses? I agree on seeing, smelling, touching and now even hearing flowers, but last time I tried to eat a rose petal, it tasted quite awful.
I just found a band I'll have to investigate through that guide. Plus, it's quite informative, especially if you don't really know what genre you are actually listening to.
Hmm... I just wondered: Currently I'm listening to the Turrican soundtrack and some stuff I got via Nectarine Demoscene Radio. That would indicate that I'm a Linux nerd.
However, I also frequently listen to Swing, Jazz and related stuff. What does that make me? Might this be related to my DOS past?
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People will complain about your music. It's a given.
Sometimes I make a sport of making people complain about my taste. I play songs from different genres in rapid succession until no one likes my taste anymore; almost no one can stand Swing, Rock 'n' Roll, Punk, A Capella, SID tunes, Techno, * Metal, Hip Hop, J-Pop, experimental music and cheesy TV show tunes.
Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can...
Iran & Iraq should change their country names in iRan & iRaq to get more leading headlines.
Do iRan and iRaq give you portable audio? Can you plug them into your PC? Do they have sleek designs? Are they kind-of status symbols? Last time I checked they lacked all of that. No wonder people are more interested in the iPod.
Actually, Jobs sent them pictures of himself, his hand and the new iPod so that they could photoshop it together, thus creating a "controversy" around how they got hold of the iPod infos, thus creating a story on Slashdot, thus making lots of Geeks buy the new iPods. It's one big conspiracy.
Ha! Jobs, we're on to you!
Steve Jobs: And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling geeks and their penguin!
You know, I'm quite happy with my little iPod look-alike.
So it does not have gigabytes of storage space or multiple playlists. I don't need that, I'm quite happy with my 128 MiB CF card (accessible as a standard USB storage device) and one playlist. And with the fact that sometime people ask me whether the thing was an iPod.
Not bad for a product I bought used for just about 30 bucks.
Now if they only would get the promised OGG support working...
Let's consider the languages taught at school in Germany:
- German. Mandatory. Gosh.
- English. Mandatory, usually from the 5th to the Nth* grade, although I do believe that it's going to be from 4 to N soon.
- Latin. Teritary language**. The most-picked teritary language, because you need it for certain jobs.
- French. Teritary language**. Second to Latin in the populartiy ratings. Linugists etc. need this.
- The rest - Spanish, Greek, Russian.
*N equals the grade after which you leave the public school - either 10, 11 or 13 (soon 12).
**On some schools it's necessary to learn a teritary language, but you can usually choose between two or more languages, usually Latin and Franch, sometimes also Spanish and Greek.
I also heard that time machine helps agains spam. You go back in time, before any spam was ever mailed and remove all the usenet postings you've made with your own address so that spammers in future (from that point, past in present point) will not harvest it and put it to millions CD where it will stay forever.
Alternative solution: Use multiple, dedicated mail addresses.
Use one for mailinglists (maybe more than one, depending on the number of lists). This one should be kind of safe. The same with actual e-mail correspondence: One address, should be safe from spam for quite some time.
Use multiple disposable addresses for stuff like fora, Slashdot, etc. Once one of these addresses starts receiving more spam than you want it to, kill the account and replace it with a new one. Never give one of these to someone who might mail you, only to registration forms and the like.
I do think that the tools which actually make the OS usable should be mentioned.. I'm posting this from GNU/Grub/bash/mc/X11/KDE/Mozilla/Linux, after having rebooted out of CMD/Explorer/MinGW/Notepad/Mozilla/Windows XP.
Heh. Back in the days I used to run Commodore-basic/C64 and that was enough. Didn't run on Applications/OS/x86 hardware, though.
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That reminds me of something... Soon I'll be on some kind of mini-convention where 60 people share three PCs on an ISDN line and there's no way to connect your own box to the network. /. and then hotsync it onto my PC from where I can read it comfortably.
Maybe I can let my Vx use my mobile as a modem to download
Or maybe I'd rather spend that money on getting some counselling...
c) Used computing devices require, like real estate, an abstract of title before being sold.
Just wait; in 2010 the Fritz chips in your hardware will be registered to your personal GUID (issued to you by the World Gov-- Trusted Computing Group). Then you wil have to call the TCG to request an un-registration form whenever you want to sell your computer, your car, your VCR or your kid's Furby II.
I recently-ish switched from a pure Win XP setup to a dualboot Linux/Windows setup*. Using Linux is completely different than using Windows.
While I spend much of my time running Windows inside the Explorer. The keyboard is mainly used for shortcuts.
In Linux (using KDE) everything's different: I only use Konqueror if I have to move lots of individual files. Everything else is dome from a Konsole. If I need a file manager I use the Midnight Commander. Often I favor running a program from the Konsole over just clicking it in the K Menu.
Even though Linux is getting more like Windows (GUI-wise) it still has a long way to go before it is as point-and-clicky as every Slashdotter's "favourite" OS. Until then, Windows will beat it in the popularity ratings without even trying.
* Windows is necessary if you want any serious graphics editing without having a degree in GIMP usage. The GIMP has easily the most awkward and confusing design of any graphics editor I have ever seen.
What is the goatse man really trying to communicate? ;-)
"Look at my intestines"?
I totally thought you were going somewhere else with that sentence.
If "slept" is used in that connotation the sounds can still be amazing.
What's more intersting to me - enjoying flowers with all five senses? I agree on seeing, smelling, touching and now even hearing flowers, but last time I tried to eat a rose petal, it tasted quite awful.
If you like Hubbard you might like C64 tunes - and PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, a C64 revival band.
I just found a band I'll have to investigate through that guide. Plus, it's quite informative, especially if you don't really know what genre you are actually listening to.
Hmm... I just wondered: Currently I'm listening to the Turrican soundtrack and some stuff I got via Nectarine Demoscene Radio. That would indicate that I'm a Linux nerd.
However, I also frequently listen to Swing, Jazz and related stuff. What does that make me? Might this be related to my DOS past?
People will complain about your music. It's a given.
Sometimes I make a sport of making people complain about my taste. I play songs from different genres in rapid succession until no one likes my taste anymore; almost no one can stand Swing, Rock 'n' Roll, Punk, A Capella, SID tunes, Techno, * Metal, Hip Hop, J-Pop, experimental music and cheesy TV show tunes.
Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can...
Maybe the IWF was set up just to get at the business competitors of people's siblings?
Well, I have heard multiple times that the IWF was "industry-founded", but never which industry actually founded it...
Iran & Iraq should change their country names in iRan & iRaq to get more leading headlines.
Do iRan and iRaq give you portable audio? Can you plug them into your PC? Do they have sleek designs? Are they kind-of status symbols? Last time I checked they lacked all of that. No wonder people are more interested in the iPod.
Actually, Jobs sent them pictures of himself, his hand and the new iPod so that they could photoshop it together, thus creating a "controversy" around how they got hold of the iPod infos, thus creating a story on Slashdot, thus making lots of Geeks buy the new iPods. It's one big conspiracy.
Ha! Jobs, we're on to you!
Steve Jobs: And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling geeks and their penguin!
You know, I'm quite happy with my little iPod look-alike.
So it does not have gigabytes of storage space or multiple playlists. I don't need that, I'm quite happy with my 128 MiB CF card (accessible as a standard USB storage device) and one playlist. And with the fact that sometime people ask me whether the thing was an iPod.
Not bad for a product I bought used for just about 30 bucks.
Now if they only would get the promised OGG support working...
Let's consider the languages taught at school in Germany:
- German. Mandatory. Gosh.
- English. Mandatory, usually from the 5th to the Nth* grade, although I do believe that it's going to be from 4 to N soon.
- Latin. Teritary language**. The most-picked teritary language, because you need it for certain jobs.
- French. Teritary language**. Second to Latin in the populartiy ratings. Linugists etc. need this.
- The rest - Spanish, Greek, Russian.
*N equals the grade after which you leave the public school - either 10, 11 or 13 (soon 12).
**On some schools it's necessary to learn a teritary language, but you can usually choose between two or more languages, usually Latin and Franch, sometimes also Spanish and Greek.
Especially if you're sending your mail to some poor guy who has been joe-jobbed.
Since your link is not actually a blacklist [...]
It is not?
I also heard that time machine helps agains spam. You go back in time, before any spam was ever mailed and remove all the usenet postings you've made with your own address so that spammers in future (from that point, past in present point) will not harvest it and put it to millions CD where it will stay forever.
Alternative solution: Use multiple, dedicated mail addresses.
Use one for mailinglists (maybe more than one, depending on the number of lists). This one should be kind of safe. The same with actual e-mail correspondence: One address, should be safe from spam for quite some time.
Use multiple disposable addresses for stuff like fora, Slashdot, etc. Once one of these addresses starts receiving more spam than you want it to, kill the account and replace it with a new one. Never give one of these to someone who might mail you, only to registration forms and the like.
Kill'em all, let God decide.
Good idea. If we kill each and every human on the planet we have a 100% chance of stopping all spammers. Who cares about a few false positives?
Which will end up cluttering their inbox nevertheless.
Animal / 2
Most animals that are somehow divided into two equal parts are rather dead at the end of the procedure.
You're right. Decent sports are broadcast on the internet and don't feature doping but aimbots.
OTOH, I do own a TI-92, which could qualify as a formula-bot, I guess. But I don't use wallhacks to spy on what the others are writing...
I do think that the tools which actually make the OS usable should be mentioned.. I'm posting this from GNU/Grub/bash/mc/X11/KDE/Mozilla/Linux, after having rebooted out of CMD/Explorer/MinGW/Notepad/Mozilla/Windows XP.
Heh. Back in the days I used to run Commodore-basic/C64 and that was enough. Didn't run on Applications/OS/x86 hardware, though.
File it with the USPTO, where no one cares about prior art.
Is it a slow news day today? Is there nothing else to post but something to start flame war between PC and Mac users?
Tomorrow on Slashdot: According to an internal Microsoft memo [fakememos.org] Linux users are impotent and severely lacking in hygiene.
(Hey, look at that - I use a PC and I know long words too!)
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