in the UK, the cashmachines use (i think) windows 98. i think this because i saw a dhcp error on one once, and the window border looked like ass-ugly 98 (95 and 2k are slightly different, the others are quite a way off)
for visual studio 6 on windows, i had to write a program in visual studio 5 (vb) to register all the dll's (simple loop using shell, but still)
at least on linux i can type emerge or emerde or apt-get or run the installer that comes with amsn, or slapt-get or swaret, or yum, or up2date, or whatever.
i dont disagree with charity completely. just people who think you should give everything to charity. do some research into montsegeur (spell it properly). i dont want to be like those people.
buy new television to replace the existing one (bigger screen or something). your not going to use the old one again, so should you throw it away, donate it to charity, put a sign in your window saying "steal the tele behind the sofa"?
if you do, any of the above, your quite odd. Sell it.
if people just threw away what they didn't need anymore then yard sales wouldn't exist.
I cant believe i am arguing with adults about the fact that not having stuff stolen is a good thing.
you dont understand. i likened squatters rights to allowing people to break into your house and live their temporarily when your on holliday, except this is better because at least you get the house back at the end of the holliday. with squatters rights, your losing thousands and thousands of pounds.
also, what about the people who buy property as an investment when property prices are low?
i hate people like you too. bastard grammer nazis you know i meant to put an appostrophie in there. spelling nazi's can fuck off too. and mods that think this is a troll.
all the people that fit into the above catagories can die (this also includes the communists that i mention in my previous posts.
thankyou for agreeing - i thought me and my girlfriends were the only people in the whole world who aren't communist.
i now know why people say the GPL is communist (even though i believe the GPL is the best license available). Its because most people here (or atleast everybody bar you that replied to me) only likes the GPL because it allows them to freeload, whereas i like the GPL because it forces the sharing of technology and encourages technical advancement (you get popular software by it being technically better).
one in the north of england near family, one in france for the wine and one in canada for the view.
anyway, just because somebody doesn't need something doesn't mean they should be allowed it, if they earned it legally.
whats it to you to say whats best for this hypothetical person? if this person likes their mansions but doesn't need much money to live off, why should they have to sell their mansions, or worse, have it taken away and given legally to theives?
i buy a car. in the night, im not using it, so somebody comes along, picks the lock and hotwires it. takes it away, drives around, uses up the petrol, scratches the car a bit, takes the cd's out of the car. the car is returned in the morning, when i want to use it.
would you let this happen to you? would you bollocks.
or how about you go on holliday for 2 weeks, and some people move in temporarily without your consent.
would you care if that happened to you? if you say no, i dont believe you.
squatting is similar to the two examples in this post, except more extreme.
if the state wants to take my property away because i live somewhere else for most of the year, they can stop claiming to be capitalist.
think of this (hypothetical situation) if i own three mansions, and all my money is tied up into my property, so except for assets im relatively poor. i live in my mansions for 6 months at a time, so each one wont get lived in for a year at a time. some bastard breaks into my property, steals whats there, uses the electric etc: costs me money. i have to pay the bills for this person, and they get privilaged for breaking and entering, and stealing.
im not sure if what your saying is communist or hippy bullshit, but either way, its not the 60's anymore.
im not rich, although one law to protect the poor from the rich really pisses me off:
swatters rights.
in the UK atleast, if you break into somebody's unused property and live there for 6 months, you can keep it, or keep living there or something like taht. squaters should be prosecuted, not rewarded.
software patents in closed source software are just wrong. with the software being closed source, nobody gets to see the algorithms anyway. infact patenting something could be interpritted as a way of saying "here's how we do it, you cant do it this way".
if i put a metric shitload of ram into a laptop (like 4 gigs) then copied / into a tmpfs on boot, then chroot everything to/tmpfs/, then unmount / and only keep/home mounted (as it wouldn't be reading/writing there much), would i greatly improve battery life, as the hd wont be spinning hardly. or i could put/home on a usb mass storage device, like one of those keyrings.
anyway, if there was no hard drive or cd drive involved once the laptop is booted, would this give a huge gain in battery life, or would i be wasting hundreds of pounds (£) on ram for no purpose?
i use juk (kde app) to listen to my music, and i used it to rename all the chilli peppers songs of one of their albums (files named properly, but id3 tags were like 01 - unknown or similar. under juk, click tagger > guess tag information > from filename.
since vmware 4 you dont even have to press control and alt. just install the vmware tools in the guest os and the mouse moves in and out like a normal window. very cool software.
in the last 15 minutes, i violated 17 patents, 4 owned by microsoft:
i scratched my arse (3 patents) i made a coffee (2 patents) i drank the coffee (1 patent) i put the coffee back on the shelf (7 patents) i sat down and turned on the computer (4 patents)
i hope nobody finds out though because i haven't got IBM's vast portfolio of patents to protect me like linux has. for those who are humourously challenged, some of this post was in jest as there is only 1 patent held on arse scratching. apparently a small company from washington owns it, but they're waiting until arse scratching becomes popular.
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in the UK, the cashmachines use (i think) windows 98. i think this because i saw a dhcp error on one once, and the window border looked like ass-ugly 98 (95 and 2k are slightly different, the others are quite a way off)
for visual studio 6 on windows, i had to write a program in visual studio 5 (vb) to register all the dll's (simple loop using shell, but still)
at least on linux i can type emerge or emerde or apt-get or run the installer that comes with amsn, or slapt-get or swaret, or yum, or up2date, or whatever.
i dont disagree with charity completely. just people who think you should give everything to charity. do some research into montsegeur (spell it properly). i dont want to be like those people.
huh huh.
look ma! i shot a squirrel!
(obviously imagine hillbilly accent for the aforementioned)
alrite, how about this scenario:
buy new television to replace the existing one (bigger screen or something). your not going to use the old one again, so should you throw it away, donate it to charity, put a sign in your window saying "steal the tele behind the sofa"?
if you do, any of the above, your quite odd. Sell it.
if people just threw away what they didn't need anymore then yard sales wouldn't exist.
I cant believe i am arguing with adults about the fact that not having stuff stolen is a good thing.
you dont understand. i likened squatters rights to allowing people to break into your house and live their temporarily when your on holliday, except this is better because at least you get the house back at the end of the holliday. with squatters rights, your losing thousands and thousands of pounds.
also, what about the people who buy property as an investment when property prices are low?
i hate people like you too.
bastard grammer nazis
you know i meant to put an appostrophie in there.
spelling nazi's can fuck off too.
and mods that think this is a troll.
all the people that fit into the above catagories can die (this also includes the communists that i mention in my previous posts.
thankyou for agreeing - i thought me and my girlfriends were the only people in the whole world who aren't communist.
i now know why people say the GPL is communist (even though i believe the GPL is the best license available). Its because most people here (or atleast everybody bar you that replied to me) only likes the GPL because it allows them to freeload, whereas i like the GPL because it forces the sharing of technology and encourages technical advancement (you get popular software by it being technically better).
one in the north of england near family, one in france for the wine and one in canada for the view.
anyway, just because somebody doesn't need something doesn't mean they should be allowed it, if they earned it legally.
whats it to you to say whats best for this hypothetical person? if this person likes their mansions but doesn't need much money to live off, why should they have to sell their mansions, or worse, have it taken away and given legally to theives?
like i said, all the money tied up in property.
(remember this is a hypothetical situation).
think of it like this then:
i buy a car. in the night, im not using it, so somebody comes along, picks the lock and hotwires it. takes it away, drives around, uses up the petrol, scratches the car a bit, takes the cd's out of the car. the car is returned in the morning, when i want to use it.
would you let this happen to you? would you bollocks.
or how about you go on holliday for 2 weeks, and some people move in temporarily without your consent.
would you care if that happened to you? if you say no, i dont believe you.
squatting is similar to the two examples in this post, except more extreme.
if the state wants to take my property away because i live somewhere else for most of the year, they can stop claiming to be capitalist.
its a bit different if whats in the box can be sold for tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds.
thats complete hippy bollocks.
complete bollocks.
think of this (hypothetical situation)
if i own three mansions, and all my money is tied up into my property, so except for assets im relatively poor. i live in my mansions for 6 months at a time, so each one wont get lived in for a year at a time. some bastard breaks into my property, steals whats there, uses the electric etc: costs me money. i have to pay the bills for this person, and they get privilaged for breaking and entering, and stealing.
im not sure if what your saying is communist or hippy bullshit, but either way, its not the 60's anymore.
an anonymous disgruntled employee could leak the source code...
im not rich, although one law to protect the poor from the rich really pisses me off:
swatters rights.
in the UK atleast, if you break into somebody's unused property and live there for 6 months, you can keep it, or keep living there or something like taht. squaters should be prosecuted, not rewarded.
software patents in closed source software are just wrong. with the software being closed source, nobody gets to see the algorithms anyway. infact patenting something could be interpritted as a way of saying "here's how we do it, you cant do it this way".
hose everything except /home and /usr/local and install everything up to date with emerge or apt-get or similar.
if i put a metric shitload of ram into a laptop (like 4 gigs) then copied / into a tmpfs on boot, then chroot everything to /tmpfs/, then unmount / and only keep /home mounted (as it wouldn't be reading/writing there much), would i greatly improve battery life, as the hd wont be spinning hardly. or i could put /home on a usb mass storage device, like one of those keyrings.
anyway, if there was no hard drive or cd drive involved once the laptop is booted, would this give a huge gain in battery life, or would i be wasting hundreds of pounds (£) on ram for no purpose?
nope cheap and effective to prevent this from happening:
just give your computer an earthed tinfoil hat(more of a ski mask really)
seriously.
i use juk (kde app) to listen to my music, and i used it to rename all the chilli peppers songs of one of their albums (files named properly, but id3 tags were like 01 - unknown or similar. under juk, click tagger > guess tag information > from filename.
it worked out the correct id3 tags perfectly
since vmware 4 you dont even have to press control and alt. just install the vmware tools in the guest os and the mouse moves in and out like a normal window. very cool software.
in the last 15 minutes, i violated 17 patents, 4 owned by microsoft:
i scratched my arse (3 patents)
i made a coffee (2 patents)
i drank the coffee (1 patent)
i put the coffee back on the shelf (7 patents)
i sat down and turned on the computer (4 patents)
i hope nobody finds out though because i haven't got IBM's vast portfolio of patents to protect me like linux has. for those who are humourously challenged, some of this post was in jest as there is only 1 patent held on arse scratching. apparently a small company from washington owns it, but they're waiting until arse scratching becomes popular.
how about this:
rm '/home/me/my file that has spaces'
They then shook these protiens.
I want to get paid to shake protiens, sod real research though.
P2's with external usb1.1 storage, going through an ISA USB card, by the sounds of it.
good point. what was that red hat thing we discussed a month or two ago, about spanning storage across multiple machines (iirc)?