Hehe indeed. If you find a post on the ubuntu forums (google it) by me, BLTicklemonster, then look at my sig, there are shown two different ways to easily make.deb files install by double clicking them. Besides, it's as easy as copying and pasting those lines into a terminal anyway, is it not? How hard is that?
I have tried installing linux for years, and never had the time or patience to get past "gee, look, now what?" Ubuntu installed and had me on a desktop without any inane gibberish commands at all ever. Once on the desktop, I had the tool I had wanted with every distro I had tried; ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. Yes, right off the bat, I was online asking questions, and reading up on how to get the most out of Ubuntu.
You can't beat that for a linux distro (at least I haven't ever been able to) And as for Arnie's 1337 speak, so what, the dude's eccentric.
As for "don't use it", bullowny. (Hope arnie would be proud of my butchering) Automatix installs and puts things right back where they were to begin with; the user is in control.
Ubuntu is by far the easiest linux distro I have ever used, and automatix makes it even easier for people like me to get the most out of the experience. Imho, it is the best thing Ubuntu has going for it other than Ubuntu itself.
And the community support on the forums (okay, here's the link: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/index.php ) is the best there is. Plenty of help for anyone and everyone. Help, encouragement - you can't beat it. I can't wait for Dapper to come out to see how it looks and works. (yes, if you know me, I am presently not using ubuntu, because I am working on a project for Unreal Tournament which requires me to be able to map and script, which I can't readily do in ubuntu precisely the way I need to, though with vmware I can almost get what I want, I find that uscript doesn't compile in xp run in vmware in ubuntu as it does on pure xp. But I am going back one day. I love ubuntu, and am looking forward to the day when I can kick the windows out and have Ubuntu as my only OS)
(score me high, I actually had to think for more than a minute on this)
Ubuntu is great, Automatix makes it greater; detractors notwithstanding. But Arnieboy's invention has been around for months. Hard to believe it's newsworthy here (except that it's newsworthy PERIOD)
"A philosophy or system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control, a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator, and often a policy of belligerent nationalism." (From The American Heritage Dictionary)
I keep hearing people say America is fascist, but I just don't see it. We don't follow a philosophy or system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control. We do have a strong government, and yes, the left keeps trying to centralize it, but it's not headed by a dictator, and the only belligerance is antinationalism coming from left wing whackos.
Against the backdrop of a war where there are people who are admittedly trying to end our way of life, the things the current administration has done are tolerable. Were we not at war, if everything was a peachy keen as the left would have us believe, and Bush were wiretapping people, then yes, it would be intolerable, and imho should have legal actions taken against it.
If I'm not mistaken, www.upc.com will be able to give you a number to call in your area in the US for locates.
I'm responsible for the utility locates where I work, and I can tell you it's a pain in the butt. The main driver behind it all was fiber optics and lawyers all along, imho. The only thing that ought to be undergound imo is water/sewer and gas, if it uses wires, it need to be hung from poles like GOD intened it to be.;) lol
That said, the biggest problem is locating the darned things in the first place so a contractor knows where they are. No, actually, and I speak from experience, the biggest problem we've seen is lazy contractors for the phone company who will bury the phone lines DIRECTLY ON TOP OF ANOTHER UTILITY BECAUSE THE GROUND IS SOFTER because it's already been disturbed. Nothing like calling in 72 hour locates to find that the fiber optics run right on top of the water mains... or worse, that they missed locating the darned things by 10 feet, or they aren't located at all. I have a standing request with our crews that if they ever come up on a fiber optic cable that is mislocated, to please notify me so I can come out with a chainsaw and a meat grinder and take 100 feet of the line and make mincemeat (mincefiber?) out of it and send it to the phone company in a baggie.
No, I won't do that, but after all the lawsuits we've been through when the phone company is at fault, it's tempting.
There needs to be a national standard for laying fiber optic cables whereas they are not allowed within 20 feet running parallel to any other utility, and if they cross, they are to be encased in concrete of kevlar or steel conduit. Anybody stupid enough to put something that delicate underground ought to have their heads examined in the first place, if you ask me....and then they complain when it gets hit. Underground excavation is not as easy as you may think, and things are going to get hit, no matter how careful you are. Ground penetrating radar for locating is a joke in rocky soil, pipe horns pick up just about anything, and will give false readings and place you precisely in the center of two lines sometimes no matter how good you are. I used to bury phone drops for Bell South, and when we'd show up for a dig, the first thing I'd do as crew leader is tell the crew to verify locates with a pipe horn, and then I'd dowse afterwards.Accuracy for pipe horns: abismal. Accuracy for dowsing: 100 percent. Kreskin can kiss my bootay, dowsing in the hands of a capable person is far more accurate than pipe horns. How's it work? Who knows, and who cares? All I know is it will find water lines, sewer lines, phone lines, even gas lines that are improperly buried (no wire running with them for pipe horns to pick up). I've not once had a doubter that I showed how to do it come away not totally amazed that it actually works.
But the main thing is, you have to be careful, and pot hole frequently. Have a man watch when you use a backhoe, and if the ground around the bucket pulls, have him stop immediately, and pull out and go in to verify as to whether you are pulling a root, gas main, or mislocated fiber optic. If it's a root, no problem, if it's a gas line, well, you probably just pulled it loose somewhere down the line, and you need fire, and gas company reps immediately. If it's mislocated fiber optic, shut down, move, call me, and let me have some fun with my chainsaw and meat grinder, please!
This works for me. I can hear, for free, pretty much any music I want over broadcast radio. I have to wait to hear what I want, but still, it's free, and is of higher quality than mp3s. I can record these also, and still have better quality than an mp3.
If I were to download a song illegally in mp3 format, then what's the big deal? To me, the product that the artists put out for sale are far superior to mp3s, so what I have can hardly be considered "their product" now can it? Wellll, yeah, but I mean it's like the difference between a kindergarten class performing Tommy as compared to going to see the Who do it live...
Movies, too. You can't get a decent movie downloaded online (from what I hear) that will compare toe to toe with a dvd or what you can see in a theater. Personally, if I were to find the album "White Mansions" on cd in a store, I'd buy it right up. I don't like country music, and am not an apologist for the old south, but that is one killer album with some really pretty music on it. But if I had a chance to get an mp3 of it, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat, and still buy the cd if I found it later. (just found my audio cable that I can use to hook my turn table equiped stereo up to my sound card and record the vinyl disk album to my hard drive so I can finally burn a cd of it. For those of you who wonder that I am talking about, they used to make these huge plastic disks that... never mind, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But trust me, a good one on a good turn table on a good stereo blows cds away.)
You quote the daily show and expect to be taken seriously? The troubling thing is that you are taken seriously by your peers, all of whom apparently flood slashdot with inane diatribes attacking anything that will secure their right to watch such things as the daily show. Don't get me wrong, I love comedy, with and satire, but I swear to Zog that if Hitler had come along in 2000s instead of 1920s, you people would have loved him. I still say the bill of rights ought to have a bill of responsibilities tacked up next to them...
I expect flames for saying that, but considering the likely sources, you can all go back to watching the commodey channel for your news and save your time.
I am a recent convert to Ubuntu, but I do Unreal Tournament mapping which can't be done in Ubuntu, so I had a dilemma. I was about to learn how to dual boot when I found out about VMware player, and setting up a virtual machine to run XP. I set it up, and honestly, XP runs faster this way than it ever did on a regular install. No, I can't install stuff like video drivers I need, but the drivers that install with XP work well enough to run the unreal editor. I wonder if someone could test XP in VMware in Ubuntu against XP on a hard drive and see what kind of difference there is. I sure seems like XP is way faster than it ever was.
Shame to have to set up like this just to run unreal editor, though. Oh, for you gamers out there, UT runs so much smoother and faster in Ubuntu, it's not funny. UT2k4 (has linux installer on the 1st cd) runs way better in Ubuntu also. You might want to check it out if you have a spare hard drive you can play around with.
I have been wanting to go to linux for years because when a new version of Windows comes out, you will have to spend money to upgrade from an OS that will no longer be supported. This planned obsolescense is typically "my counrtian", and I resent it and all it stands for. But I've tried different version of Linux several times, and until Ubuntu came out, I was never confident that it was worth the trouble. If I mess up in Ubuntu, I can have it reinstalled and running in no time, with no bother. The Synaptic Package manager makes upgrades and intallations of key elements a snap. Would that Google would throw their weight into supporting Ubuntu, and help to make a powerful and easy to use OS available free to anyone who wants it. Of course Google hasn't, and you know what? Ubuntu already IS a powerful and easy to use OS that is available to anyone who wants to use it. Granted, if you want to do some things, you will need to learn more than just clicking away while you munch on a donut, but it's worth it because YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOUR MACHINE.
I totally agree with you. I WANTED to migrate to linux, but could never tolerate the absolute adherence to the command line to accomplish anything. If anyone here has ever noticed, I have ranted on and on several times about how the Linux community needed to come up with an OS that was easy to install, and operate. When I downloaded the live cd of Hoary I was impressed with it enough to download the install iso and put it on a spare hard drive and fire it up. It actually set up my network automatically BEFORE getting to the desktop, and began upgrading itself right there... BEFORE it even finished installing. I was amazed.
Yes, it's different, and sure there may be a slight learning curve (if you are competent in Windows, you will find this to be pretty intuitive. YOu probably won't get lost easily), but I am totally sold on this. Streaming audio just like Winamp, Dvd player, cd burner you name it, it's got it, or can get it. And the synaptic package manager lets you just browse through and find stuff you want to install. Windows can't touch this at all.
It's about time for me to kick out my windows, finally.
Just think... somewhere out there in the vastness of space there is some being posting in a forum that the ufo pictures taken on earth were mock ups done in some far away hollywood.
Let me ask you something; what other nation on Earth would have stopped at just two atom bombs? We had our well founded suspicions that Russia would be our next enemy, and we had enough reason to believe other nations would be against us after the war. Would any other nation have just stopped after two? Would any other nation have just used the two they had, rather than stockpile several and unleash them all at once? What if (as has been asked previously here) Japan or Germany or Russia had had them? I doubt if Great Briton (hail Britannia) would have done any differently than the US. Oh My God, what if China had had the technology to create Atom Bombs? Do you not think that Japan would be glowing in the dark, from one island to the other, the entire archipelago?
A tough lesson for us all to learn, indeed, but let us not lose site of the realities.
Furthermore, would not most other nations have used these weapons as a percursor to invasion with the intent of conquest?
Bingo. Good point. I like the theory of evolution, it makes great sense to me, but I only see it for what it is, a theory. Many people confuse adaptation/evolution with the evolution of one distinct species into another. Yes, birds on the Galapagos Islands adapted, but they didn't evolve from turtles or the like. Did we evolve from apes? In my opinion, if anything, there is the distinct possibility that we adapted to our environment, if anything, and ended up where we are now.
On the other hand, I believe in the distinct possiblity that there was something along the lines of a creator involved in everything. How likely is it that some primordial ooze evolved into everything we see today? Have we put a human face on this creator to make it easier to identify with it? Possibly. Have religious leaders been dishonest with people oftimes in order to push a political agenda? Possibly. But neither of these would mean that a creator didn't exist, it would only show humans for what humans are; jerks from the word go.
I can't prove my views, and people with opposing views can't prove thiers, so we both should be allowed equal time. Tis the only fair way to be.
It's like having a Starbucks that serves unlimited free coffee. No brainer. Dude wants to make money, he should not sell one product and give another one away for free.
Speaking of using it to its fullest potential; what are the chances of somebody turning that puppy towards the moon to see if some imagery of the Apollo landings can be had? Would that not be awesome to actually see Tranquility base, with Armstrong and Aldrin's footprints intermingled with all the Moontian footprints left since they came back? (lol) Or even get a shot of the space station coming over the horizon, or the shuttle lifting off (if and when, if and when). I mean why does it have to just be used for outer space stuff? (probably a technical explanation headed my way, but what the heck, it would be cool if it could be used like that)
Anakin lost his Mom, and told Amidala that one day he would be able to keep someone from dying (or something along that line, just stay with me on this) then Amidala dies after he has promised her that he would be strong enough for her not to die.
He has no family. He's alone...
Then he learns of young Skywalker! He tries to find him and get him by his side so hard. He is still under the spell of the dark side and all the trappings of the powah!! So of course he wants Luke to join him and overthrow the emperor.
Then he and Luke have their confrontation in E6, and Luke realizes that the goodness in Anakin, the real part of a Jedi, is still there, so Luke decides not to use physical power, but the power of love (violins, please) and throws down his weapon.
Darth Hideous Sidious puts the hoodoo to Luke, and finally, Anakin sees that there is no need to use the dark side of the force to keep someone from dying, just chunk the old buggar in a hole and be done with it!
Which means he was the one all along, it was just an incredibly long twisted trail to get there. No one else would have been able to have done that.
The force isn't all about power, it's about love (more violence, er violins please)
Better idea: realize that the internet is a big fat giant security hole, and do not ever do any monetary transactions on it, ever.
I'm glad that they have those neat images of the dude ice fishing and the animated gif next to it hosted on their site. I'm going to hotlink them in all the forums I go to!!! PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW NOT TO HOTLINK, AND BY GOD, I'M GONNA HOTLINK THE LESSON TO THEM!!!
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I hate to ask where you put the peppers...
I have tried installing linux for years, and never had the time or patience to get past "gee, look, now what?" Ubuntu installed and had me on a desktop without any inane gibberish commands at all ever. Once on the desktop, I had the tool I had wanted with every distro I had tried; ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. Yes, right off the bat, I was online asking questions, and reading up on how to get the most out of Ubuntu.
You can't beat that for a linux distro (at least I haven't ever been able to) And as for Arnie's 1337 speak, so what, the dude's eccentric.
As for "don't use it", bullowny. (Hope arnie would be proud of my butchering) Automatix installs and puts things right back where they were to begin with; the user is in control.
Ubuntu is by far the easiest linux distro I have ever used, and automatix makes it even easier for people like me to get the most out of the experience. Imho, it is the best thing Ubuntu has going for it other than Ubuntu itself.
And the community support on the forums (okay, here's the link: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/index.php ) is the best there is. Plenty of help for anyone and everyone. Help, encouragement - you can't beat it. I can't wait for Dapper to come out to see how it looks and works. (yes, if you know me, I am presently not using ubuntu, because I am working on a project for Unreal Tournament which requires me to be able to map and script, which I can't readily do in ubuntu precisely the way I need to, though with vmware I can almost get what I want, I find that uscript doesn't compile in xp run in vmware in ubuntu as it does on pure xp. But I am going back one day. I love ubuntu, and am looking forward to the day when I can kick the windows out and have Ubuntu as my only OS)
(score me high, I actually had to think for more than a minute on this)
Ubuntu is great, Automatix makes it greater; detractors notwithstanding. But Arnieboy's invention has been around for months. Hard to believe it's newsworthy here (except that it's newsworthy PERIOD)
I keep hearing people say America is fascist, but I just don't see it. We don't follow a philosophy or system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control. We do have a strong government, and yes, the left keeps trying to centralize it, but it's not headed by a dictator, and the only belligerance is antinationalism coming from left wing whackos.
Against the backdrop of a war where there are people who are admittedly trying to end our way of life, the things the current administration has done are tolerable. Were we not at war, if everything was a peachy keen as the left would have us believe, and Bush were wiretapping people, then yes, it would be intolerable, and imho should have legal actions taken against it.
Just my two cents on the matter.
Any body alive down there?
I'm responsible for the utility locates where I work, and I can tell you it's a pain in the butt. The main driver behind it all was fiber optics and lawyers all along, imho. The only thing that ought to be undergound imo is water/sewer and gas, if it uses wires, it need to be hung from poles like GOD intened it to be. ;) lol
That said, the biggest problem is locating the darned things in the first place so a contractor knows where they are. No, actually, and I speak from experience, the biggest problem we've seen is lazy contractors for the phone company who will bury the phone lines DIRECTLY ON TOP OF ANOTHER UTILITY BECAUSE THE GROUND IS SOFTER because it's already been disturbed. Nothing like calling in 72 hour locates to find that the fiber optics run right on top of the water mains... or worse, that they missed locating the darned things by 10 feet, or they aren't located at all. I have a standing request with our crews that if they ever come up on a fiber optic cable that is mislocated, to please notify me so I can come out with a chainsaw and a meat grinder and take 100 feet of the line and make mincemeat (mincefiber?) out of it and send it to the phone company in a baggie.
No, I won't do that, but after all the lawsuits we've been through when the phone company is at fault, it's tempting.
There needs to be a national standard for laying fiber optic cables whereas they are not allowed within 20 feet running parallel to any other utility, and if they cross, they are to be encased in concrete of kevlar or steel conduit. Anybody stupid enough to put something that delicate underground ought to have their heads examined in the first place, if you ask me. ...and then they complain when it gets hit. Underground excavation is not as easy as you may think, and things are going to get hit, no matter how careful you are. Ground penetrating radar for locating is a joke in rocky soil, pipe horns pick up just about anything, and will give false readings and place you precisely in the center of two lines sometimes no matter how good you are. I used to bury phone drops for Bell South, and when we'd show up for a dig, the first thing I'd do as crew leader is tell the crew to verify locates with a pipe horn, and then I'd dowse afterwards.Accuracy for pipe horns: abismal. Accuracy for dowsing: 100 percent. Kreskin can kiss my bootay, dowsing in the hands of a capable person is far more accurate than pipe horns. How's it work? Who knows, and who cares? All I know is it will find water lines, sewer lines, phone lines, even gas lines that are improperly buried (no wire running with them for pipe horns to pick up). I've not once had a doubter that I showed how to do it come away not totally amazed that it actually works.
But the main thing is, you have to be careful, and pot hole frequently. Have a man watch when you use a backhoe, and if the ground around the bucket pulls, have him stop immediately, and pull out and go in to verify as to whether you are pulling a root, gas main, or mislocated fiber optic. If it's a root, no problem, if it's a gas line, well, you probably just pulled it loose somewhere down the line, and you need fire, and gas company reps immediately. If it's mislocated fiber optic, shut down, move, call me, and let me have some fun with my chainsaw and meat grinder, please!
If I were to download a song illegally in mp3 format, then what's the big deal? To me, the product that the artists put out for sale are far superior to mp3s, so what I have can hardly be considered "their product" now can it? Wellll, yeah, but I mean it's like the difference between a kindergarten class performing Tommy as compared to going to see the Who do it live...
Movies, too. You can't get a decent movie downloaded online (from what I hear) that will compare toe to toe with a dvd or what you can see in a theater. Personally, if I were to find the album "White Mansions" on cd in a store, I'd buy it right up. I don't like country music, and am not an apologist for the old south, but that is one killer album with some really pretty music on it. But if I had a chance to get an mp3 of it, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat, and still buy the cd if I found it later. (just found my audio cable that I can use to hook my turn table equiped stereo up to my sound card and record the vinyl disk album to my hard drive so I can finally burn a cd of it. For those of you who wonder that I am talking about, they used to make these huge plastic disks that ... never mind, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But trust me, a good one on a good turn table on a good stereo blows cds away.)
I expect flames for saying that, but considering the likely sources, you can all go back to watching the commodey channel for your news and save your time.
Shame to have to set up like this just to run unreal editor, though. Oh, for you gamers out there, UT runs so much smoother and faster in Ubuntu, it's not funny. UT2k4 (has linux installer on the 1st cd) runs way better in Ubuntu also. You might want to check it out if you have a spare hard drive you can play around with.
And did I mention it's free?
You know, if less yahoos thought 53k was not enough money, they'd have more job security. koff koff.
So what is it they are looking for again? 13 meter rocks?
I think it's Flatulent Farnsworth.
Yes, it's different, and sure there may be a slight learning curve (if you are competent in Windows, you will find this to be pretty intuitive. YOu probably won't get lost easily), but I am totally sold on this. Streaming audio just like Winamp, Dvd player, cd burner you name it, it's got it, or can get it. And the synaptic package manager lets you just browse through and find stuff you want to install. Windows can't touch this at all.
It's about time for me to kick out my windows, finally.
Just think... somewhere out there in the vastness of space there is some being posting in a forum that the ufo pictures taken on earth were mock ups done in some far away hollywood.
A tough lesson for us all to learn, indeed, but let us not lose site of the realities.
Furthermore, would not most other nations have used these weapons as a percursor to invasion with the intent of conquest?
Ah yes, then we don't teach evolution. Nice post.
On the other hand, I believe in the distinct possiblity that there was something along the lines of a creator involved in everything. How likely is it that some primordial ooze evolved into everything we see today? Have we put a human face on this creator to make it easier to identify with it? Possibly. Have religious leaders been dishonest with people oftimes in order to push a political agenda? Possibly. But neither of these would mean that a creator didn't exist, it would only show humans for what humans are; jerks from the word go.
I can't prove my views, and people with opposing views can't prove thiers, so we both should be allowed equal time. Tis the only fair way to be.
It's like having a Starbucks that serves unlimited free coffee. No brainer. Dude wants to make money, he should not sell one product and give another one away for free.
Speaking of using it to its fullest potential; what are the chances of somebody turning that puppy towards the moon to see if some imagery of the Apollo landings can be had? Would that not be awesome to actually see Tranquility base, with Armstrong and Aldrin's footprints intermingled with all the Moontian footprints left since they came back? (lol) Or even get a shot of the space station coming over the horizon, or the shuttle lifting off (if and when, if and when). I mean why does it have to just be used for outer space stuff? (probably a technical explanation headed my way, but what the heck, it would be cool if it could be used like that)
He has no family. He's alone...
Then he learns of young Skywalker! He tries to find him and get him by his side so hard. He is still under the spell of the dark side and all the trappings of the powah!! So of course he wants Luke to join him and overthrow the emperor.
Then he and Luke have their confrontation in E6, and Luke realizes that the goodness in Anakin, the real part of a Jedi, is still there, so Luke decides not to use physical power, but the power of love (violins, please) and throws down his weapon.
Darth Hideous Sidious puts the hoodoo to Luke, and finally, Anakin sees that there is no need to use the dark side of the force to keep someone from dying, just chunk the old buggar in a hole and be done with it!
Which means he was the one all along, it was just an incredibly long twisted trail to get there. No one else would have been able to have done that.
The force isn't all about power, it's about love (more violence, er violins please)
The end.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000640033887/
and check this out. For windows XP users only last I saw.
You can transfer files to and fro. Only I think 10 megs max, but still, it's pretty neat.
Dangit, I'm gonna get slammed again!
Is this done by dll hooking?
Better idea: realize that the internet is a big fat giant security hole, and do not ever do any monetary transactions on it, ever.
I'm glad that they have those neat images of the dude ice fishing and the animated gif next to it hosted on their site. I'm going to hotlink them in all the forums I go to!!! PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW NOT TO HOTLINK, AND BY GOD, I'M GONNA HOTLINK THE LESSON TO THEM!!!