And then mod _this_ parent up. Sir, you just poked a hole in the Matrix using about 1650 letters. I saw them as green semi-japanese nuggets of wisdom raining vertically down my monitor.
Oh, the next step is mandatory vaccinations against all sorts of bullshit, like swineflu/birdflu. Oh, and Tamiflu is an anti-viral drug, not a vaccine just so you know. Be sure to tell them that when they strap you to a chair so they can ram it in you. Rumsfeld has major stakes in the flu business. That alone should make you realize what kind of powers we are dealing with.
I had everything working perfectly in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as well. I had 2 Radeon HD 2600's in Crossfire config, with two monitors (big desktop mode in Compiz using ATI prop drivers (yes i actually had it working 100%, even 3D desktop cube over 2 monitors!)) and a TV hooked up. Everything worked perfectly and I was for a few months 100% converted to Linux as primary desktop OS.
One day, it just stopped working. And I spent hours and hours trying to restore the system to a state where I could boot into X again. I cannot say for sure what happened, but it was right after I one day had to boot into Windows XP again for some reason that it failed. Maybe it was a kernel update in Linux at exactly the same time, I don't know. I did not update the ATI drivers, that much I know. I suspect that somehow either Linux or Windows messes with the Radeon's firmware so the other cannot use it.
Until this day I haven't been able to restore 100% functionality to Linux's graphics. While using Compiz, all movies will flicker and X doesn't boot unless I unplug the TV. Movies will work properly if I disable Compiz. I've tried a reinstall using Ubuntu 9 but that did not work either. I'm lost. I now use Windows if I suspect i am going to watch something on the TV or monitor that day. Unfortunately, that's very often. So the end result is that I only use Linux if my wife is gone. (Gives me time to be a dev geek!)
I've spent hours and days trying to get Linux to do what Windows has been doing since basically Win98. I don't care anymore. If I need anything more fancy than a command prompt, I'm booting into Windows.
So exactly how often does a government agency admit to failure at an issue this big ? I'm reading this as "FBI just managed to break TrueCrypt so we hope all you people use it."
If it works, don't mess with it.
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Somebody forgot that if it works, don't mess with it. Windows XP and Windows 2000 are two excellent OS'es. They are more than good enough to host a web browser (remember IE is created for the sole purpose of just downloading FireFox or Chrome), office apps, system utilities & tools. If you really need to reorganize and style the whole GUI there are software for that too. Windows Vista and 7 does not have anything that wasn't possible on the last generation. It is not really a step forward, it's a way for them to try to stay relevant and alive. I would recommend to just step to Linux if training costs are going to be used up anyway! Linux is coming full speed ahead, I've spotted it many times in the wild amongst 'regular' users already. If there is no other reason to your platform shift than the phrase "get out of the 90's", I wouldn't switch.
If you do crazy stuff by yourself, its because your insane. If you get another person to do it as well, its because its a religion and is now worthy of respect and special treatment.
I had to actually remember my password and log in to just say
"That wasn't so hard was it, Microsoft?" (or any mega corp)
If you let everything out in the open, everything sorts out, everyone in this business know mistakes are easy to make. And we do not think you suck
for doing a mistake. We think you suck when you lie about it afterwards!
MS++
Also, very well is now defined as delivering the same goods at a twentieth of the price.An O.K or good is along the same lines, defined to be at around a fifteenth of the original price.
Funny you should say that, I had my ATI 2600 HD cards BSOD me last night for the first time on Win7. It was the ati2dvag bug, wich is also prevalent on XP and Linux. First time I've had a BSOD with the ATI cards, usually the ATI VPU Recovery driver kicks in and saves me. There is no VPU recovery on Linux though.
I live in Norway (next to Sweden) and I can confirm that there are unusual things happening. (Then again I don't live in a city and I spend time outdoors). There's a boom of ticks and related bugs, starting to move from the eastern coasts and towards the center. There are new species of other bugs that are moving in from east and south. There are effing Black Widow spiders thriving Sweden now, wake up man. There are weather phenomena that are similar to tropical storms. Spontaneous tornadoes that can toss around trailers, torrential rains etc. Summers are now hot and humid, as opposed to hot and dry. We have always had climate fluctuations, but it seems there is a new trend that is here to stay this time, and the migration of species is the smoking gun.
Uhm, let's also ignore Archimedes, Kepler, Curie and Einstein. They are all dead. The founding fathers were the Einsteins of nation building. Heed their wisdom.
I am a programmer, i think i should get royalties, lets say 10% of all the money that go trough the systems i wrote. Ive written hundreds of thousands of lines of production code. doesnt that make me a writer ? its doesnt say so in the contract, but fuck, i am a writer and my code is art.
I kind of agree with the AD&D (2nd ed last time i saw it) way of thought, where there's a difference between wisdom and intelligence. There's a lot of very intelligent people, that might have a low 'wisdom' score, wich practically makes them unable to use their intelligence in a proper way.
A band that can't play a song with tempo changes without technical aid is not a band worth listening to, by my standards.
I'd rather have a band play a few measures wrong than a whole song 'perfectly'.
But then again there's people who like sterile & produced music better than organic music straight from the amps.
In Norway we already had filters snuck in years ago. If you search for child porn, you supposedly get redirected to the pages of the Secret Police, giving you warning. I don't know how they work, but I've seen photos of the warning pages in the newspapers.
Note: Not that i think that one lone IT shop in Norway says anything about the world, but i guess that for every 2364564 SCO story on slashdot/digg/ars/elreg et.al., one story makes it to the mainstream, and it *does* gets noticed by influential people.
In our small IT department, located in some remote part of Norway, everyone knows who SCO is and that we must absolutely have nothing to do with them, or anything they have their noses in. And they are not even slashdotters. Thats a good indicator to me that the word is out and that we wont see many SCO installs.
For servers, we use whatever linux distro that suits the various server hardware best. We are depending on progress in our distros so we can take advantage of the latest and greatest in scalability, databases, hardware support and networking. Even if we ever had SCO UNIX, it would be irrelevant now.
It didn't work, but if our universe was created out of another then the big bang wasn't a moment of creation.
It would be exactly that. *A* moment of creation. But not *the* moment of creation.
So we are basically searching for a transition, not a creation. Sure looks like creation from here, but we are merely a process within another,seem from the outside.
And since we cannot observe the laws of physics that govern the Parent universe, (Wich in it self could be an offspring) we cannot know why we spawned from the Parent.
We can only describe *this* universe, and to a certain extent how the transition appeared from inside here. The moment the transition began marks the start of the local timeline here.
There might be clues in our Universe's laws and physics to as how the Parent works, since we repeatedly see systems in universe repeat it self on many different scales. Much like the Pythagorean theorem for finding a length or an angle in a triangle with one 90 degree angle, is actually just a special case of a much bigger equation that can do any triangle.
Thats offcourse a (wrongful) assumption based on observations here.
I have a feeling this might be the cause of confusion for those who deal with the details of math and physics. This because some of the theoretical 'paths' they explore, might be systematically similar to the Parent universe's rules, but not the same. (And actually describes nothing of interest here, or the opposite, or whatever)
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And then mod _this_ parent up. Sir, you just poked a hole in the Matrix using about 1650 letters. I saw them as green semi-japanese nuggets of wisdom raining vertically down my monitor.
Oh, the next step is mandatory vaccinations against all sorts of bullshit, like swineflu/birdflu. Oh, and Tamiflu is an anti-viral drug, not a vaccine just so you know. Be sure to tell them that when they strap you to a chair so they can ram it in you. Rumsfeld has major stakes in the flu business. That alone should make you realize what kind of powers we are dealing with.
I had everything working perfectly in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as well. I had 2 Radeon HD 2600's in Crossfire config, with two monitors (big desktop mode in Compiz using ATI prop drivers (yes i actually had it working 100%, even 3D desktop cube over 2 monitors!)) and a TV hooked up. Everything worked perfectly and I was for a few months 100% converted to Linux as primary desktop OS .
/rant, possibly offtopic!
One day, it just stopped working. And I spent hours and hours trying to restore the system to a state where I could boot into X again. I cannot say for sure what happened, but it was right after I one day had to boot into Windows XP again for some reason that it failed. Maybe it was a kernel update in Linux at exactly the same time, I don't know. I did not update the ATI drivers, that much I know. I suspect that somehow either Linux or Windows messes with the Radeon's firmware so the other cannot use it.
Until this day I haven't been able to restore 100% functionality to Linux's graphics. While using Compiz, all movies will flicker and X doesn't boot unless I unplug the TV. Movies will work properly if I disable Compiz. I've tried a reinstall using Ubuntu 9 but that did not work either. I'm lost. I now use Windows if I suspect i am going to watch something on the TV or monitor that day. Unfortunately, that's very often. So the end result is that I only use Linux if my wife is gone. (Gives me time to be a dev geek!)
I've spent hours and days trying to get Linux to do what Windows has been doing since basically Win98. I don't care anymore. If I need anything more fancy than a command prompt, I'm booting into Windows.
So exactly how often does a government agency admit to failure at an issue this big ? I'm reading this as "FBI just managed to break TrueCrypt so we hope all you people use it."
Somebody forgot that if it works, don't mess with it. Windows XP and Windows 2000 are two excellent OS'es. They are more than good enough to host a web browser (remember IE is created for the sole purpose of just downloading FireFox or Chrome), office apps, system utilities & tools. If you really need to reorganize and style the whole GUI there are software for that too. Windows Vista and 7 does not have anything that wasn't possible on the last generation. It is not really a step forward, it's a way for them to try to stay relevant and alive. I would recommend to just step to Linux if training costs are going to be used up anyway! Linux is coming full speed ahead, I've spotted it many times in the wild amongst 'regular' users already. If there is no other reason to your platform shift than the phrase "get out of the 90's", I wouldn't switch.
It's not actually missing. Zoom in and look, you can see a building where the marker is. The Black is a shadow from the cloud. Conspiracy solved!
If you do crazy stuff by yourself, its because your insane. If you get another person to do it as well, its because its a religion and is now worthy of respect and special treatment.
So true.
I had to actually remember my password and log in to just say "That wasn't so hard was it, Microsoft?" (or any mega corp) If you let everything out in the open, everything sorts out, everyone in this business know mistakes are easy to make. And we do not think you suck for doing a mistake. We think you suck when you lie about it afterwards! MS++
Also, very well is now defined as delivering the same goods at a twentieth of the price.An O.K or good is along the same lines, defined to be at around a fifteenth of the original price.
Funny you should say that, I had my ATI 2600 HD cards BSOD me last night for the first time on Win7. It was the ati2dvag bug, wich is also prevalent on XP and Linux. First time I've had a BSOD with the ATI cards, usually the ATI VPU Recovery driver kicks in and saves me. There is no VPU recovery on Linux though.
I live in Norway (next to Sweden) and I can confirm that there are unusual things happening. (Then again I don't live in a city and I spend time outdoors). There's a boom of ticks and related bugs, starting to move from the eastern coasts and towards the center. There are new species of other bugs that are moving in from east and south. There are effing Black Widow spiders thriving Sweden now, wake up man. There are weather phenomena that are similar to tropical storms. Spontaneous tornadoes that can toss around trailers, torrential rains etc. Summers are now hot and humid, as opposed to hot and dry. We have always had climate fluctuations, but it seems there is a new trend that is here to stay this time, and the migration of species is the smoking gun.
Uhm, let's also ignore Archimedes, Kepler, Curie and Einstein. They are all dead. The founding fathers were the Einsteins of nation building. Heed their wisdom.
uhm i wasnt trying to reply to this post, but the sibling above. must have pressed the wrong button.
I am a programmer, i think i should get royalties, lets say 10% of all the money that go trough the systems i wrote. Ive written hundreds of thousands of lines of production code. doesnt that make me a writer ? its doesnt say so in the contract, but fuck, i am a writer and my code is art.
I kind of agree with the AD&D (2nd ed last time i saw it) way of thought, where there's a difference between wisdom and intelligence. There's a lot of very intelligent people, that might have a low 'wisdom' score, wich practically makes them unable to use their intelligence in a proper way.
A band that can't play a song with tempo changes without technical aid is not a band worth listening to, by my standards. I'd rather have a band play a few measures wrong than a whole song 'perfectly'. But then again there's people who like sterile & produced music better than organic music straight from the amps.
Exactly what do you mean with a low-end machine? I dont belive you, or your conception of a low-end machine is way different than mine.
shh. the raptor might hear you!
In Norway we already had filters snuck in years ago. If you search for child porn, you supposedly get redirected to the pages of the Secret Police, giving you warning. I don't know how they work, but I've seen photos of the warning pages in the newspapers.
Note: Not that i think that one lone IT shop in Norway says anything about the world, but i guess that for every 2364564 SCO story on slashdot/digg/ars/elreg et.al., one story makes it to the mainstream, and it *does* gets noticed by influential people.
In our small IT department, located in some remote part of Norway, everyone knows who SCO is and that we must absolutely have nothing to do with them, or anything they have their noses in. And they are not even slashdotters. Thats a good indicator to me that the word is out and that we wont see many SCO installs. For servers, we use whatever linux distro that suits the various server hardware best. We are depending on progress in our distros so we can take advantage of the latest and greatest in scalability, databases, hardware support and networking. Even if we ever had SCO UNIX, it would be irrelevant now.
people didnt skip windows 2000. windows 2000 rocked and most people didnt convert to xp until it got sp2.
My wife is converted to, she has a dual xp/kubuntu boot, and she now can configure her own samba shares. How about that !
Well, just because some dude shows you how quantum fields work, doesn't mean you're educated!
It would be exactly that. *A* moment of creation. But not *the* moment of creation.
So we are basically searching for a transition, not a creation. Sure looks like creation from here, but we are merely a process within another,seem from the outside. And since we cannot observe the laws of physics that govern the Parent universe, (Wich in it self could be an offspring) we cannot know why we spawned from the Parent.
We can only describe *this* universe, and to a certain extent how the transition appeared from inside here. The moment the transition began marks the start of the local timeline here.
There might be clues in our Universe's laws and physics to as how the Parent works, since we repeatedly see systems in universe repeat it self on many different scales. Much like the Pythagorean theorem for finding a length or an angle in a triangle with one 90 degree angle, is actually just a special case of a much bigger equation that can do any triangle. Thats offcourse a (wrongful) assumption based on observations here.
I have a feeling this might be the cause of confusion for those who deal with the details of math and physics. This because some of the theoretical 'paths' they explore, might be systematically similar to the Parent universe's rules, but not the same. (And actually describes nothing of interest here, or the opposite, or whatever)