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You are right. In the Netherlands there is only interest for the international issue's of the Bush/Kerry campaign. It is very informative to see all those other viewpoints and candidates. At the last US elections my co-workers joked that we (Dutch/rest of the world) should be able to vote 'because it is our President too'.
Personally, I thought I would vote for the Socialist Party USA because a party with that name must be like the Social Democrats in the Netherlands. I was very wrong; too (left-)extreme.
I probably would vote Nader because Kerry is too conservative, or even the Libertarian Party ('alien'for a Social Democrat voter but some very good points).
Same here. I (as linux user with some experience) had great help from "Linux for Non-Geeks: clear-eyed answers for pratical consumers" by Rodwriter (isbn: 0-9726867-0-3). Great book for newbies, shipped with Knoppix and had lots of chapters on word-processing. The perfect help for a secretary to switch to linux.
Same here. I loved my athlon/win98 but for reasons of stability I had to partition my hard drive and install two copies of win98. One for 'serious' work and the other one for games, internet and new programms.
When the drivers of my USB cable modem corrupted the tcp/icp stack of windows I installed SuSE 7.1 (thanks to C't magazine coverage) with 2.4 kernel and never looked back. I decided that I'm just too stupid for windows.
I can follow clear directions, modify text files and understand a little about the syslog but the registry and windows mysterious behaviour are beyond my understanding. SuSE (and Mandrake) recognise my hardware, understand my Internet settings, comes with all the programs I need and gives me timely securtity and bug patches.
One question: can you see/experience any 'artificial' depth? I also am almost blind in one eye (lazy, correction pointless) and while I have no problems with 'real', everyday depth, I never got the hang of 'artifical' depth.
3D movies with glasses, infinity pictures,virtual reality helmet, etc. do not work for me.
I always suspected that I had a very clueless brain in the 3D area, but after reading your post I think it can be caused by failing eyesight.
Which is a pity because I would love seeing LOTR in 3D.
Word of warning. If you use www.foolab.org/fest to look for the photo's, please avoid the last two picture's : dsc00912.jpg and dsc00913.jpg. This are picture's of goatse and something even worse (think tubegirl).
The rest of the photo's are 'clean' (when I looked).
In the Netherlands (and Belgium) muskrats are a plague. The Dutch goverment is employing professional rat-catchers to stop these animals undermining our dykes and river beddings.
Promotions to 'eat this plague away' never caught on in the Netherlands but in Belgium (Flanders) you can eat 'water rabbit' in some restaurants.
Eh, scary? Has no one on slashdot been given 'child coffee' or 'coffee wrong' when they were young? (sorry, literal translations from Dutch because I do not know the English terms).
It is exactly the same stuff as described in the article: lots of milk and sugar and little coffee. It is given to childeren (or drank by people with 'immature' taste). No evil effects and/or conspiracies are reported.
"stop het in je nauwe gaatje Darl"
Put it in your narrow little hole, Darl
Very colourful, but I never heard of this expression. I believe the proper Dutch translation of "sod off Darl" is: "Rot op, Darl".
Short and to the point.
Thank you! Thank you! I am happy i am not the only one who is less then pleased about this character assassination.
This evening i went to see the movie unprepared: the reviews (even from Tolkien fans) were ecstactic. While i totally and completely enjoyed the movie (crying with Eowyn, screaming when Shelob dropped on Frodo, etc.) i was very annoyed with Denethor. Who is this moronic, incompetent glutton and where is the Steward of Gondor?
No hint about the Palantir, 'the long defeat', etc. First Faramir in TT and now Denethor. Why, PJ, why?
This is the first post (on the web or usenet) that expressed what i felt when i saw Denethor and proof i am not a total book purist with a pet peef. Or perhaps i am, but i am not alone
any more:)
I'm one of those drooling idiots who can't tell left from right. I'm lefthanded and use two computers at work: my one computer with mouse at the left side and mouse buttons reversed and a shared computer with a 'normal' mouse. When I use the shared computer I just move the mouse to the left.
My boss convinced me to alternate between lefthanded mouse-use and righthanded mouse-use because "this will reduce the risk of RSI".
He hoped that I would use the mouse righthanded on my own computer at work so that co-workers would have less problems to use my computer. Unfortunely for him I switched to righthanded mouse-use on my home computer.
So, forgive me for being a little bit confused about the left/right mouse button. I just call it "the other button", the button you do not use to select things. My co-workers understand it, I think:)
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No, no, the lovable Hexley is a platypus,not a daemon.
Yes, you did :)
I think you wanted this: DDos attacks on GRC.com
You are right. In the Netherlands there is only interest for the international issue's of the Bush/Kerry campaign. It is very informative to see all those other viewpoints and candidates.
At the last US elections my co-workers joked that we (Dutch/rest of the world) should be able to vote 'because it is our President too'.
Personally, I thought I would vote for the Socialist Party USA because a party with that name must be like the Social Democrats in the Netherlands. I was very wrong; too (left-)extreme.
I probably would vote Nader because Kerry is too conservative, or even the Libertarian Party ('alien'for a Social Democrat voter but some very good points).
Same here. I (as linux user with some experience) had great help from "Linux for Non-Geeks: clear-eyed answers for pratical consumers" by Rodwriter (isbn: 0-9726867-0-3). Great book for newbies, shipped with Knoppix and had lots of chapters on word-processing.
The perfect help for a secretary to switch to linux.
No, no! Linus is Aragorn: If Vendors were Film Stars
No, they run OpenBsd/FreeBsd :)
This friendly AC claims that the new autostereoscopic displays will allow us, poor one eyed people, to experience 3D.
Same here. I loved my athlon/win98 but for reasons of stability I had to partition my hard drive and install two copies of win98. One for 'serious' work and the other one for games, internet and new programms.
When the drivers of my USB cable modem corrupted the tcp/icp stack of windows I installed SuSE 7.1 (thanks to C't magazine coverage) with 2.4 kernel and never looked back. I decided that I'm just too stupid for windows.
I can follow clear directions, modify text files and understand a little about the syslog but the registry and windows mysterious behaviour are beyond my understanding. SuSE (and Mandrake) recognise my hardware, understand my Internet settings, comes with all the programs I need and gives me timely securtity and bug patches.
So, no 3D for us. At least my brain is :).
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Thank you for your repley and I hope everything will turn out okay for your childeren.
One question: can you see/experience any 'artificial' depth? I also am almost blind in one eye (lazy, correction pointless) and while I have no problems with 'real', everyday depth, I never got the hang of 'artifical' depth.
3D movies with glasses, infinity pictures,virtual reality helmet, etc. do not work for me.
I always suspected that I had a very clueless brain in the 3D area, but after reading your post I think it can be caused by failing eyesight.
Which is a pity because I would love seeing LOTR in 3D.
Word of warning. If you use www.foolab.org/fest to look for the photo's, please avoid the last two picture's : dsc00912.jpg and dsc00913.jpg.
This are picture's of goatse and something even worse (think tubegirl).
The rest of the photo's are 'clean' (when I looked).
In the Netherlands (and Belgium) muskrats are a plague. The Dutch goverment is employing professional rat-catchers to stop these animals undermining our dykes and river beddings.
Promotions to 'eat this plague away' never caught on in the Netherlands but in Belgium (Flanders) you can eat 'water rabbit' in some restaurants.
You can buy SuSE Update for $49.95. It the same as Suse Pro but without the manuals.
Eh, scary? Has no one on slashdot been given 'child coffee' or 'coffee wrong' when they were young? (sorry, literal translations from Dutch because I do not know the English terms).
It is exactly the same stuff as described in the article: lots of milk and sugar and little coffee. It is given to childeren (or drank by people with 'immature' taste). No evil effects and/or conspiracies are reported.
Eh, excuse me but how old are you? Try mid 90s.
>SCO have no comment
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>Who writes this stuff? Yoda?
Sorry, wrong movie.
"SCO have no comment, SCO needs no comment."
Forgive me PJ!
Well, I would respectfully decline your offer of RMS but Linus. . . .
"Yes, yes, I will buy 14 copies of XP Pro, now give me Penguinboy!"
"stop het in je nauwe gaatje Darl" Put it in your narrow little hole, Darl Very colourful, but I never heard of this expression. I believe the proper Dutch translation of "sod off Darl" is: "Rot op, Darl". Short and to the point.
Please, please, will somebody mod this up as insightful?
Thank you! Thank you! I am happy i am not the only one who is less then pleased about this character assassination. This evening i went to see the movie unprepared: the reviews (even from Tolkien fans) were ecstactic. While i totally and completely enjoyed the movie (crying with Eowyn, screaming when Shelob dropped on Frodo, etc.) i was very annoyed with Denethor. Who is this moronic, incompetent glutton and where is the Steward of Gondor? No hint about the Palantir, 'the long defeat', etc. First Faramir in TT and now Denethor. Why, PJ, why? This is the first post (on the web or usenet) that expressed what i felt when i saw Denethor and proof i am not a total book purist with a pet peef. Or perhaps i am, but i am not alone any more :)
I'm one of those drooling idiots who can't tell left from right. I'm lefthanded and use two computers at work:
:)
my one computer with mouse at the left side and mouse buttons reversed and a shared computer with a 'normal' mouse. When I use the shared computer I just move the mouse to the left.
My boss convinced me to alternate between lefthanded mouse-use and righthanded mouse-use because "this will reduce the risk of RSI".
He hoped that I would use the mouse righthanded on my own computer at work so that co-workers would have less problems to use my computer. Unfortunely for him I switched to righthanded mouse-use on my home computer.
So, forgive me for being a little bit confused about the left/right mouse button. I just call it
"the other button", the button you do not use to select things. My co-workers understand it, I think