I hearby announce my candidacy for 'Best dressed'.
Some of you may be asking yourself why you should vote for me. Simple. Best dressed isn't what label you wear, whither or not the cufflinks are real gold, etc. It's how you use attitude to make the look work.
Speaking as someone who successfully pulled off wide lapelled mohair at the formal company Christmas party, combat boots and leather jacket at innumerable weddings, and constantly gets positive comments about his misuse of military-surplus gear in the corporate work environment, I feel I deserve the award.
Stop installing one piece of software a day from freshmeat.
But that's whats keeping the HD companies afloat!
Seriously though. Over the course of six months of 'cool new thing on FM, better install it', I've managed to shrink my 9 Gb of free space on the root volume to six. My/usr/local/src looks like I'm donating bandwidth as a CVS repository for hundreds of projects!
Oh, yeah. My New Years resolution is to curb my addictions; I'm up to two packs of Lucky Strike and about four+ pots of coffee. I'm shooting for one pack of cigarettes and two pots of joe, 'cuz I'm not terribly sure my stress level will permit any further concession.
Actually, I enjoy answering Linux questions! I reserve the 'Go read the documentation' attitude for people who should know. For example, take today. I was asked 'How do you change the mailserver address in Outlook', 'IS asked me to reboot the fileserver, but I don't want to, because I'm logged in, waiting for an AIM message', among others. These questions got the snotty response, because these people should know the answer from the mandatory training course, or because they have 'MCSE' in their title.
On the other hand, I responded gleefully to the dozen emails and one phone call I got today about Linux problems. The documentation, as you have said, can be unclear and out-of-date. There was a reason I was being asked; the FM had been read, and yet something was lacking. Linux users have the bad habit of reading the manual, and I have never had a 'stupid' (see above) question from a user that has successfully made it past the installation process.
You have my email, if you ever get stuck again, I will answer your questions as well.
Bought the booze 'cuz I wasn't sure I could fix the carbuerator with what I bought. I'd rather be drunk on the side of the road waiting for help to arrive than sober.
It has been my experience that whenever I refer someone with questions to a manual, help file, man page, or HOWTO, they always come back with questions. I know it isn't a deficient manual, because usually the questions haven't changed.
I think our 'instant availability' society is the cause. They know I can give then a simplified, concise answer in seconds, while referring to the manual may cut into their coffee break and actually require them learning something! They may flip through the manual, perhaps looking at the index and actually finding that the manual has relevent information. But they never seem to read it.
Of course it is! Nothing quite like scraping blood, brains and intestines off your aluminum bat after a good whacking. But survival in the Post-Apocalyptic era can't always be fun, can it?
Master makes a series of 'notched' key locks, which are far harder to pick, pop, or rake open. I'm fairly adept; I can get any M1 open in under 30 seconds, any KW1, SC1, or M2 in under two minutes. I won't even touch them; Acetylene or cutting wheel only.
Baseball bats require you to be near your attacker. Guns don't. Baseball bats require coordination and strength. Guns don't. With a baseball bat, you get one chance to disable your attacker. With a Colt, you get six! Gunpowder makes a much better firestarter than a Louisville Slugger Guns do not require stealth. When you've got a baseball bat-equipped someone scoped at 200 yards, it really doesn't matter if he can hear the shot.
After an automotive breakdown (failed gasket in a Edelbrock 650), I went into a gas station hoping to procure some stuff to repair it. I bought two large coffee's, a half-quart of mineral oil, two cheap pinball games, a small bottle of Captain Morgan, a pack of razor blades, some sewing needles, a pack of Lucky, and three non-lubricated condoms. The plan was: Use the oil to break the rusted plate screws, the needles and razorblades to scrape what remained of the gasket off, and use the condoms as a temporary gasket. The pinball games were disassembled for their springs, which were then used to replace the ones I had lost during the troubleshooting process.
You should have seen the face of the elderly gentleman behind the counter. I think he called the cops after I walked out of the place, because they met me at my truck (a half mile down the road)and were way too curious about the contents of my shopping bag.
I also bought an Air Zone Micro Rapid Fire EZ Squeeze 4 Shooter on sale, and am filing down the barrels
Two words: Bigger springs.
If it's air powered, perhaps you should consider retro-fitting a Crossman CO2 pistol with the four barrel foam dart setup. A buddy of mine did it with some copper pipe fittings and Nerf darts. They hurt like hell!
They just die out, at least in the case of the 'oil-consuming' bacteria. Not only are they tailored to have extremely short lives, they have a tough time surviving on anything except oil. Additionally, these bacteria have the same environmental weaknesses as the parent organism they are derived from; succeptability to antibiotics, heat, microwave radiation, etc.
The article should have dealt with this in more depth, especially given the current paranoia concerning bio-engineered food and cloning.
C'mon! I'm a Michiganian, and Jesse 'I was in Predator' Ventura is a step above our govenor, John Engler. I may add that Mr. Engler has been suggested as a possible VC candidate several times.
I have a theory that relates to this; Back in the early days of settling North America, it was common for the Europeans to import and sell cheap spirits to the Native Americans. It kept them happy, docile, and drunk. I think the Communists rediscovered the fact that a drunk citizenry is easier to control, and thus provided mass quantities of vodka, etc, at dirt-cheap prices.
Macrovision cheats have been available, cheaply, for years. Look in the back of any 'Popular Electronics' type mag, and you'll see scads, along with cable boxes, kW amplifiers for the CB freq's, etc.. Your use is legit, and I'd suggest picking up one.
Why I would want to copy from DVD to tape: The quality of the original dictates the quality of the copy. If I wanted to copy 'Night Of the Living Dead', odds are I'd get a crappy original from the video store. If I rented the DVD, I'd be sure to get a spanking clean copy.
Pirating a DVD is easy. Bit-for-bit copy. You get an encryted copy, but then any player on earth will read it. The CSS primary encryption is only relevent when viewing the movie or changing it's format from MPEG2.
Microwaves have a largish glass tube, called a magnetron, and a lot of high voltage. The magnetron generates a whole lot of high-frequency RF, which cooks the food. If you wanted to destroy the microwave, just put the fork in it and turn it on 'high'. It's like keying a ham radio with bad SWR; all the magic smoke escapes.
Yes, I know this was a bad, offtopic, over simplification. But I learned this by taking my old Toshiba Radar Range apart!
Andover owns the slashdot.org domain, and it is not the subject of debate. NSI won't even give the blood-sucking lawyers the time of day if they attempt something like that. At most, 'The Management' will be forced to pull all current posts relating to where the DeCSS code can be found under the terms of a preliminary court order.
As no such order currently exists, we can all post as we wish.
Don't feed the trolls, man! They're like stray cats; If you feed them, they'll come back again. If you feed them a few times, they'll warm right up to you, personally. I'm sure you don't want to be on the Mai Ling Mak mailing list anymore than I do, so wash down another Quaalude with Skii and let 'em pass inane comments amongst their -1 brethren sans notice.
It is in stores? Gah, my memory must be going. I can still remember the Carter Administration, (which wasn't memorable. Poor peanut farmer my ass!) so it hasn't slipped terribly far. However, I seem to have forgotten where I put my pants, and the name of the young lady next to me, so it definitly isn't what it used to be!!
If you just bought NT w/Netshow, you paid out the ass for it. Six months ago, if you bought NT w/o Netshow, you paid out the ass for it. The pricing scheme hasn't changed, only the total value you get for bending over and winking at Ballmer. Besides, it is the MS way.
In Microsoft's defense, Media Player appears to do a better job than Real most of the time. If they weren't 'bundling' the server software, I'd say they'd get a fair bit of the action anyway, not only from brand-name syndrome.
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I hearby announce my candidacy for 'Best dressed'.
Some of you may be asking yourself why you should vote for me. Simple. Best dressed isn't what label you wear, whither or not the cufflinks are real gold, etc. It's how you use attitude to make the look work.
Speaking as someone who successfully pulled off wide lapelled mohair at the formal company Christmas party, combat boots and leather jacket at innumerable weddings, and constantly gets positive comments about his misuse of military-surplus gear in the corporate work environment, I feel I deserve the award.
If I were hallucinating due to the end of the world, I think I'd hallucinate something other than Monday morning at work.
Phllllllpppt! - Bill the Cat
Stop installing one piece of software a day from freshmeat.
/usr/local/src looks like I'm donating bandwidth as a CVS repository for hundreds of projects!
But that's whats keeping the HD companies afloat!
Seriously though. Over the course of six months of 'cool new thing on FM, better install it', I've managed to shrink my 9 Gb of free space on the root volume to six. My
Oh, yeah. My New Years resolution is to curb my addictions; I'm up to two packs of Lucky Strike and about four+ pots of coffee. I'm shooting for one pack of cigarettes and two pots of joe, 'cuz I'm not terribly sure my stress level will permit any further concession.
Actually, I enjoy answering Linux questions! I reserve the 'Go read the documentation' attitude for people who should know. For example, take today. I was asked 'How do you change the mailserver address in Outlook', 'IS asked me to reboot the fileserver, but I don't want to, because I'm logged in, waiting for an AIM message', among others. These questions got the snotty response, because these people should know the answer from the mandatory training course, or because they have 'MCSE' in their title.
On the other hand, I responded gleefully to the dozen emails and one phone call I got today about Linux problems. The documentation, as you have said, can be unclear and out-of-date. There was a reason I was being asked; the FM had been read, and yet something was lacking. Linux users have the bad habit of reading the manual, and I have never had a 'stupid' (see above) question from a user that has successfully made it past the installation process.
You have my email, if you ever get stuck again, I will answer your questions as well.
Sleight, its a 'come-on', not a 'cop-out'. She knows perfectly well how to administer the Palm!
Bought the booze 'cuz I wasn't sure I could fix the carbuerator with what I bought. I'd rather be drunk on the side of the road waiting for help to arrive than sober.
It has been my experience that whenever I refer someone with questions to a manual, help file, man page, or HOWTO, they always come back with questions. I know it isn't a deficient manual, because usually the questions haven't changed.
I think our 'instant availability' society is the cause. They know I can give then a simplified, concise answer in seconds, while referring to the manual may cut into their coffee break and actually require them learning something! They may flip through the manual, perhaps looking at the index and actually finding that the manual has relevent information. But they never seem to read it.
Society sucks.
Of course it is! Nothing quite like scraping blood, brains and intestines off your aluminum bat after a good whacking. But survival in the Post-Apocalyptic era can't always be fun, can it?
Beowulf clusters are usually Intel-based; They're 'commodity copuercomputers' after all, and Alpha's are hardly 'commodity'.
Compaq is showing the Alpha Beowulf bacause, as their manufacturer, they want their flagship product out there representing them to the masses.
Plus, an Alpha cluster is so much cooler than just another cluster of PIII's...
Master makes a series of 'notched' key locks, which are far harder to pick, pop, or rake open. I'm fairly adept; I can get any M1 open in under 30 seconds, any KW1, SC1, or M2 in under two minutes. I won't even touch them; Acetylene or cutting wheel only.
Baseball bats require you to be near your attacker. Guns don't.
Baseball bats require coordination and strength. Guns don't.
With a baseball bat, you get one chance to disable your attacker. With a Colt, you get six!
Gunpowder makes a much better firestarter than a Louisville Slugger
Guns do not require stealth. When you've got a baseball bat-equipped someone scoped at 200 yards, it really doesn't matter if he can hear the shot.
After an automotive breakdown (failed gasket in a Edelbrock 650), I went into a gas station hoping to procure some stuff to repair it. I bought two large coffee's, a half-quart of mineral oil, two cheap pinball games, a small bottle of Captain Morgan, a pack of razor blades, some sewing needles, a pack of Lucky, and three non-lubricated condoms. The plan was: Use the oil to break the rusted plate screws, the needles and razorblades to scrape what remained of the gasket off, and use the condoms as a temporary gasket. The pinball games were disassembled for their springs, which were then used to replace the ones I had lost during the troubleshooting process.
You should have seen the face of the elderly gentleman behind the counter. I think he called the cops after I walked out of the place, because they met me at my truck (a half mile down the road)and were way too curious about the contents of my shopping bag.
I also bought an Air Zone Micro Rapid Fire EZ Squeeze 4 Shooter on sale, and am filing down the barrels
Two words: Bigger springs.
If it's air powered, perhaps you should consider retro-fitting a Crossman CO2 pistol with the four barrel foam dart setup. A buddy of mine did it with some copper pipe fittings and Nerf darts. They hurt like hell!
Items needed for cufflink-based bomb timer:
1 Empty windshield washer solvent bottle
4 feet lamp-cord
1 styrofoam block, approx. 6x6.
1 pair cufflinks
1 knife
1 roll duct tape
4 C batteries, stolen from battery-powered radio
some water
Assembly directions left to your imagination..
They just die out, at least in the case of the 'oil-consuming' bacteria. Not only are they tailored to have extremely short lives, they have a tough time surviving on anything except oil. Additionally, these bacteria have the same environmental weaknesses as the parent organism they are derived from; succeptability to antibiotics, heat, microwave radiation, etc.
The article should have dealt with this in more depth, especially given the current paranoia concerning bio-engineered food and cloning.
C'mon! I'm a Michiganian, and Jesse 'I was in Predator' Ventura is a step above our govenor, John Engler. I may add that Mr. Engler has been suggested as a possible VC candidate several times.
Low IQ is better than low common sense.
No. Bad idea.. What happens the first time we get a troll mucking with the USPTO? Or the first time someone flames the French government?
I have a theory that relates to this; Back in the early days of settling North America, it was common for the Europeans to import and sell cheap spirits to the Native Americans. It kept them happy, docile, and drunk. I think the Communists rediscovered the fact that a drunk citizenry is easier to control, and thus provided mass quantities of vodka, etc, at dirt-cheap prices.
Macrovision cheats have been available, cheaply, for years. Look in the back of any 'Popular Electronics' type mag, and you'll see scads, along with cable boxes, kW amplifiers for the CB freq's, etc.. Your use is legit, and I'd suggest picking up one.
Why I would want to copy from DVD to tape: The quality of the original dictates the quality of the copy. If I wanted to copy 'Night Of the Living Dead', odds are I'd get a crappy original from the video store. If I rented the DVD, I'd be sure to get a spanking clean copy.
Pirating a DVD is easy. Bit-for-bit copy. You get an encryted copy, but then any player on earth will read it. The CSS primary encryption is only relevent when viewing the movie or changing it's format from MPEG2.
Microwaves have a largish glass tube, called a magnetron, and a lot of high voltage. The magnetron generates a whole lot of high-frequency RF, which cooks the food. If you wanted to destroy the microwave, just put the fork in it and turn it on 'high'. It's like keying a ham radio with bad SWR; all the magic smoke escapes.
Yes, I know this was a bad, offtopic, over simplification. But I learned this by taking my old Toshiba Radar Range apart!
Andover owns the slashdot.org domain, and it is not the subject of debate. NSI won't even give the blood-sucking lawyers the time of day if they attempt something like that. At most, 'The Management' will be forced to pull all current posts relating to where the DeCSS code can be found under the terms of a preliminary court order.
As no such order currently exists, we can all post as we wish.
Thank you for the well reasoned response. Often the mindful are drowned by the mindless here on Slashdot.
Post more often! Hopefully it will raise the collective IQ back up into the triple-digits!
Dude!
Chill!
Don't feed the trolls, man! They're like stray cats; If you feed them, they'll come back again. If you feed them a few times, they'll warm right up to you, personally. I'm sure you don't want to be on the Mai Ling Mak mailing list anymore than I do, so wash down another Quaalude with Skii and let 'em pass inane comments amongst their -1 brethren sans notice.
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It is in stores? Gah, my memory must be going. I can still remember the Carter Administration, (which wasn't memorable. Poor peanut farmer my ass!) so it hasn't slipped terribly far. However, I seem to have forgotten where I put my pants, and the name of the young lady next to me, so it definitly isn't what it used to be!!
If you just bought NT w/Netshow, you paid out the ass for it. Six months ago, if you bought NT w/o Netshow, you paid out the ass for it. The pricing scheme hasn't changed, only the total value you get for bending over and winking at Ballmer. Besides, it is the MS way.
Embrace, extend, eradicate. Clone, bundle, annihilate.
In Microsoft's defense, Media Player appears to do a better job than Real most of the time. If they weren't 'bundling' the server software, I'd say they'd get a fair bit of the action anyway, not only from brand-name syndrome.