I'm a Linux lover, and use it exclusively. The issue I have is the biggest issue I have with debian (they do it the most), but all software seems to do it.
They'll change configuration settings, or how something works, and then call you an idiot for not reading their entire README document every fucking time you apt-get upgrade their pacakage, and find your entire, say, mailsystem in a broken state. (I'm looking at you, debian. *cough*update-exim4.conf*cough*).
They don't do cheap in the pricetag you pay sense, but they definitely do cheap in build quality.
I've sat and watched as people around me buy macs and insist their better, when > 50% of them have had some failure of some kind in their first 3 years of ownership. Some of them are menial (headphone jack stopped working/has no volume), some of them are in the middle (touchpad for mouse stopped working), some of them are significant (mainboard fried).
I don't know what's in the kool-aid, but with the astronomical rate of failure I've seen with Macs, and the fact that while MSRP on a comparable piece of PC hardware is about the same, the fact that you can *always* find a better deal with PCs where as better deals for macs are a pipe dream, I can't imagine wasting my money on a mac.
You're also forgetting, that like most other batteries/electronic generator type hardware, they degrade over time, and in 10 years, they won't be providing you with that $10,000 of electricity anymore.
You can already do that with keywords. I have keywords set up as follows:
- g -- searches google for - gi -- google image searches for - w -- alias for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ - map -- searches google maps for - y -- searches youtube for
There are more, but I'll spare you at this point. These addons + vimperator == happy boy.
I still find myself hammering gg when I'm at other people's houses wondering why firefox isn't going to the top of the page, though.
I look forward to the day when I can tell the incumbent cable provider (Rogers Cable) here in Canada to go fuck themselves with a chainsaw.
Them and their, "we're upping your price for the second time this year", and "you're on our do-not-market-to list, but we'll just send you all sorts of spam and upgrade offers along with the semi-annual price increase letter!", and their overall scummy existence.
Who doesn't give a flying fuck if Linux gains marketshare or not?
Don't get me wrong, I hate Windows, and I wouldn't impose it on my worst enemy... ok maybe I would.
But I hate Windows, and I love Linux and all that, but at the end of the day, you run whatever the hell you want, and I'll run whatever the hell I want, mmmkay?
Yup. It was explicitly in the agreement that they went with him. I even tried to negotiate him leaving them behind, but he wasn't interested unless I was willing to give him full retail value for them, which I told him gently to go do various unsavoury things to himself.
Although he did take the fridge and stove and replace them with junk ones even though the ones that were originally there were in the agreement.
Our house was partially knob & tube when I bought it (despite the house coming with documentation stating otherwise, but *anyway*).
I replaced it. There is now no active knob & tube in this house anywhere. I'm going to rewire each room as I renovate, but no sense ripping walls out until then.
Our house was built in 1936. The insulation in this place is blown fibreglass that was blown in during some government rebate program in the.. 70s?
In any event, it's all settled to the bottom, and doesn't insulate worth a damn anymore. It's on the list.
- Replaced *every* bulb with CFL. Even the outdoor ones that they're apparently not designed for -- which has resulted in ONE dead bulb. - Bought energy efficient appliances. They weren't significantly more expensive than the lower efficiency stuff, either. I basically walked through the furniture store, wrote down the expected kWh/year for each item, and then narrowed it down to the most efficient ones. Picked amongst them. - Convinced my wife and son to turn lights, the television, and anything they're not using off when they leave a room. - Consolidated 3 servers into one, and put a super high efficiency power supply in it. - Removed every single CRT in the house. - Bought a gas stove (which interestingly, didn't make much difference in my gas bill *AT ALL*, but made a significant difference in my electricity bill. - Replaced my furnace with a 92.5% efficiency unit that has a variable speed DC motor and programmable thermostat.
My electricity bill is on average $39/mo (just under $80 bi-monthly). That's just under $40 of actual electricity, and just under $40 of 'delivery', 'storage', 'debt retirement', taxes, and all that other crap they add to our bills.
The overall expense versus not buying high efficiency stuff was pretty negligible (with the caveat that I bought my first house, and so I was buying my appliances for the first time; someone else replacing their current appliances would incur much more expense, obviously.)
Also, I forgot to mention: I live in a 70 year old house that leaks air like a sieve. I intend on fixing it, but haven't had the capital (I only bought it 2 years ago) and other things have taken priority.
I intend on making that much better one day.
It's all about conservation -- nothing we do is noticeably different from our friends as far as general comfort and lifetstyle go, either. My current project is a homemade greywater recycling system.
It's a half assed install that was doomed from day one, and now he's bitching about it.
Of course, technology marches on, and there will no doubt, with higher efficiency panels available at lower prices in the coming years. Alas, that's the price one pays for being an early adopter. But when I look at my power bill, I still have a nice, warm feeling inside.
The house I currently live in was powered with solar panels here in Southern Ontario before I bought it. The guy who sold it to me took the panels with him. They did just fine at consolidating his hydro to the point where he was paying almost NOTHING to the power company. They're not worthless at all. A large investment that might take longer out here to recoup costs, but definitely not worthless.
I live in Canada. The weather today is -25c or so. My power bill never exceeds $46/CAD a month when I have a window AC unit going in the summer, and my gas bill never exceeds $70/mo.
The # of kWh/mo he's using would suggest to me he'd be a lot better served putting the time and energy into replacing bulbs with CFLs, turning off computers that don't need to be on, and buying higher efficiency appliances rather than those solar panels... or both, of course.
Absolutely. There's a reason I own almost exclusively vinyl now. Not because I'm an audio junkie who insists they sound better -- it's the best way to get the music of the stuff I listen to now. There's a lot less good music out there today, and back in the 70s, an album was 10 great tunes. Now, it's 2 radio hits, and filler. And there's more exposure to unsigned bands which isn't accounted for in these numbers. Since the RIAA began its tactic of suing its customers, I stopped buying RIAA members' CDs entirely. I've continued to purchase the CDs of those that are, and I've built a rather remarkable collection -- none of it would count against those numbers.
This so fucking much. You have no choice. You pay it, or you don't rent the hall. Period. No music being played at all? Tough. Your own original music? Tough. It's infuriating.
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wtf. and the issue happens most often with debian itself.
And I spelled package wrong in my first post.
I give up.
What the FUCK is with my grammar lately? I'm losing it.
That fucked up sentence should be:
"The issue I have is -- and the issue is happens most often with debian itself -- but all software seems to do it:"
I'm a Linux lover, and use it exclusively. The issue I have is the biggest issue I have with debian (they do it the most), but all software seems to do it.
They'll change configuration settings, or how something works, and then call you an idiot for not reading their entire README document every fucking time you apt-get upgrade their pacakage, and find your entire, say, mailsystem in a broken state. (I'm looking at you, debian. *cough*update-exim4.conf*cough*).
insist THEY'RE better. Not their. damn it.
I could ask the same of many mac users when they get all snide at PC users like we're some kind of retard for not being cool like them.
It's the few that ruin it for the many, remember that.
They don't do cheap in the pricetag you pay sense, but they definitely do cheap in build quality.
I've sat and watched as people around me buy macs and insist their better, when > 50% of them have had some failure of some kind in their first 3 years of ownership. Some of them are menial (headphone jack stopped working/has no volume), some of them are in the middle (touchpad for mouse stopped working), some of them are significant (mainboard fried).
I don't know what's in the kool-aid, but with the astronomical rate of failure I've seen with Macs, and the fact that while MSRP on a comparable piece of PC hardware is about the same, the fact that you can *always* find a better deal with PCs where as better deals for macs are a pipe dream, I can't imagine wasting my money on a mac.
You're also forgetting, that like most other batteries/electronic generator type hardware, they degrade over time, and in 10 years, they won't be providing you with that $10,000 of electricity anymore.
I can donate to to help them cover the costs of stomping on those maggots?
I'm willing to shell out a few CDs' worth of cash.
You can already do that with keywords. I have keywords set up as follows:
- g -- searches google for
- gi -- google image searches for
- w -- alias for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
- map -- searches google maps for
- y -- searches youtube for
There are more, but I'll spare you at this point. These addons + vimperator == happy boy.
I still find myself hammering gg when I'm at other people's houses wondering why firefox isn't going to the top of the page, though.
The irony of your post is fantastic.
Also, I'm too far from the CO to get DSL, so it's not an option for me.
(THT.net was also run by incompetents.)
I look forward to the day when I can tell the incumbent cable provider (Rogers Cable) here in Canada to go fuck themselves with a chainsaw.
Them and their, "we're upping your price for the second time this year", and "you're on our do-not-market-to list, but we'll just send you all sorts of spam and upgrade offers along with the semi-annual price increase letter!", and their overall scummy existence.
Who doesn't give a flying fuck if Linux gains marketshare or not?
Don't get me wrong, I hate Windows, and I wouldn't impose it on my worst enemy ... ok maybe I would.
But I hate Windows, and I love Linux and all that, but at the end of the day, you run whatever the hell you want, and I'll run whatever the hell I want, mmmkay?
I have been since 2001. I check RIAA radar, and only buy albums from people who are not members.
Coincidentally (not), I've never paid > $15 for a CD from these people including shipping to my front door.
Tell that to your Nickelback CDs which are just regurgitated fucking trash from their last CDs.
Yup. It was explicitly in the agreement that they went with him. I even tried to negotiate him leaving them behind, but he wasn't interested unless I was willing to give him full retail value for them, which I told him gently to go do various unsavoury things to himself.
Although he did take the fridge and stove and replace them with junk ones even though the ones that were originally there were in the agreement.
Small claims court. $75. Sued him. Won. :D
Our house was partially knob & tube when I bought it (despite the house coming with documentation stating otherwise, but *anyway*).
I replaced it. There is now no active knob & tube in this house anywhere. I'm going to rewire each room as I renovate, but no sense ripping walls out until then.
Our house was built in 1936. The insulation in this place is blown fibreglass that was blown in during some government rebate program in the.. 70s?
In any event, it's all settled to the bottom, and doesn't insulate worth a damn anymore. It's on the list.
To get my hydro bill down, I did the following:
- Replaced *every* bulb with CFL. Even the outdoor ones that they're apparently not designed for -- which has resulted in ONE dead bulb.
- Bought energy efficient appliances. They weren't significantly more expensive than the lower efficiency stuff, either. I basically walked through the furniture store, wrote down the expected kWh/year for each item, and then narrowed it down to the most efficient ones. Picked amongst them.
- Convinced my wife and son to turn lights, the television, and anything they're not using off when they leave a room.
- Consolidated 3 servers into one, and put a super high efficiency power supply in it.
- Removed every single CRT in the house.
- Bought a gas stove (which interestingly, didn't make much difference in my gas bill *AT ALL*, but made a significant difference in my electricity bill.
- Replaced my furnace with a 92.5% efficiency unit that has a variable speed DC motor and programmable thermostat.
My electricity bill is on average $39/mo (just under $80 bi-monthly). That's just under $40 of actual electricity, and just under $40 of 'delivery', 'storage', 'debt retirement', taxes, and all that other crap they add to our bills.
The overall expense versus not buying high efficiency stuff was pretty negligible (with the caveat that I bought my first house, and so I was buying my appliances for the first time; someone else replacing their current appliances would incur much more expense, obviously.)
Also, I forgot to mention: I live in a 70 year old house that leaks air like a sieve. I intend on fixing it, but haven't had the capital (I only bought it 2 years ago) and other things have taken priority.
I intend on making that much better one day.
It's all about conservation -- nothing we do is noticeably different from our friends as far as general comfort and lifetstyle go, either. My current project is a homemade greywater recycling system.
Wrong.
It's a half assed install that was doomed from day one, and now he's bitching about it.
Of course, technology marches on, and there will no doubt, with higher efficiency panels available at lower prices in the coming years. Alas, that's the price one pays for being an early adopter. But when I look at my power bill, I still have a nice, warm feeling inside.
... he is?
The house I currently live in was powered with solar panels here in Southern Ontario before I bought it. The guy who sold it to me took the panels with him. They did just fine at consolidating his hydro to the point where he was paying almost NOTHING to the power company. They're not worthless at all. A large investment that might take longer out here to recoup costs, but definitely not worthless.
I live in Canada. The weather today is -25c or so. My power bill never exceeds $46/CAD a month when I have a window AC unit going in the summer, and my gas bill never exceeds $70/mo.
The # of kWh/mo he's using would suggest to me he'd be a lot better served putting the time and energy into replacing bulbs with CFLs, turning off computers that don't need to be on, and buying higher efficiency appliances rather than those solar panels. .. or both, of course.
They're not mutually exclusive. They're stupid AND think we're stupidER.
Absolutely. There's a reason I own almost exclusively vinyl now. Not because I'm an audio junkie who insists they sound better -- it's the best way to get the music of the stuff I listen to now. There's a lot less good music out there today, and back in the 70s, an album was 10 great tunes. Now, it's 2 radio hits, and filler. And there's more exposure to unsigned bands which isn't accounted for in these numbers. Since the RIAA began its tactic of suing its customers, I stopped buying RIAA members' CDs entirely. I've continued to purchase the CDs of those that are, and I've built a rather remarkable collection -- none of it would count against those numbers.
This so fucking much. You have no choice. You pay it, or you don't rent the hall. Period. No music being played at all? Tough. Your own original music? Tough. It's infuriating.