Have you been around our nation lately? I know in my state (NC), which is known for both agriculture AND tech stuff, I know at least 50 farmers. Probably 1 out of every 10 people you meet will be farmers.
I'm more afraid of a glitch along the lines of "all diebold machines count an extra presidential vote whenever this combination of votes is chosen"... or something like that. Some kind of UNINTENTIONAL glitch to fuck up the results.
Although where I used to work, not with Win XP. I quit my job because they were just 'sliding' copies of 98/ME on new computers and using used 2k/XP OEM keys on new computers (which is illegal).
but there ARE some people out there still running FCKGW-* keys who are completely clueless as to the legality.
I worked for a computer store, and we had at least 4 scenarios in 6 months where one of our customer bought Office/Windows XP off ebay, then we try to upgrade to SP1 to fix a problem and... wait... FCKGW-*. I imagine it's a common scenario, and most of these people WILL drop the $100 for a legal copy upon finding out they got screwed.
Heh... you know, there have been some EXCELLENT replies to my post. It did what it was intended to do -- generate discussion. But I simply think it is UNFAIR that my post is modded "Overrated". You know what? Slashdot thinks that posts should only be modded down if they are "Offtopic", "Troll", or "Flamebait". My post was none of the above, and it really pisses me off that I'm penalized for the political views of the majority of/. readership.
I am a strong supporter of Bush, and I realize these things:
The war in Iraq isn't perfect, but according to a lot of interviews with soldiers and stuff, it's not as bad as NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN wants you to believe.
Even though Iraq doesn't have nukes, Saddam was an insane asshole who would've tried as hard as possible to get them -- several reports show that he was using the oil-for-food program to bypass UN sanctions
I know the job market isn't that great. Hell, I'm only working part time. But I ALSO know that Bush inherited a HORRIBLE economic situation and managed to turn it into the smallest recession in US history.
I know the world doesn't agree with us. People: THIS IS OKAY. The world looks out for the world. The US needs to look out for the US.
Now I'm waiting for some liberal to come refute my facts, lol. Seriously though guys: It's like people who link to that worldvoting site... it's 75%/25% in favor of kerry in the US. That shows a bias. I tend to think the same with this site -- I know that in my experience, the people who favor Kerry get their facts from Fareignheit 9-11 and the liberal news media. Do some independent research people.
One of which is a persistently cached 13kb image, which is loaded once and never again, per my apache setup.
You don't wanna look at my ads? Thats fine. You have the choice of not visitng my site, or hell, if you're one of those people who don't mind donating, then block my ads, but my problem is that people expect to get quality content for free, then wanna block the ads that pay for it. I'm a member of a stuggling family, using free AOL disks to keep my website updated. Everytime you block an ad, you cost me money and make small-time webmasters like me just a tad more tempted to close the doors forever.
I understand there are some obnoxious ads... but if you want free content, deal with the ads. I mean, blocking flash ads... popup blocking... understandable. But I have a lot of people who block my google text ad and my sponsor banner on my site... which keeps me from having a lot of money come out of my pocket each month.
Clever troll. The whole idea is that gentoo is minimalistic. Yeah you gotta emerge some stuff after an install, but that's the whole point.
I don't use vi. I'm glad it's not included. Also, with the init scripts, it uses a BSD style init, so that is completely different that other linux distros.
The key feature most people miss about gentoo is that it's a great LEARNING DISTRO. I learned many times more in my 5 months of using gentoo than I did in using RHL/FC for a year. Not to mention the great docs/community... anyone who can follow EXACT directions, has some patience, and basic linux knowledge should be able to install Gentoo.
One thing (big thing) it missed about 2004.2 was the move from XFree default to XOrg...
Also... by slow development... I don't know what they mean? Portage is gaining features (try one of the pre-releases), and the ebuilds still fly out fast after new software is released.
Whenever I run linux (I move from Win/Linux often), Gentoo is my distro of choice by a long shot.
Usually if someone has new.net, or anotehr TCP/IP stack dropin, and you remove it using spybot, adaware, etc, instead of Add/Remove programs, you have to completely rebuild the TCP stack.
Possibly newer versions of ad aware do this for you?
McAfee being the most so... it has one of those tray popups which will kill your fullscreen game.
PC-Cillin I don't think does anything obnoxious, but I haven't used it for a few years.
EZ-Trust Antivirus will popup a web browser directed to their site.
I think that's about it. I've never used Panda. I don't use a virus scanner, personally. I have a firewall and I'm the only one with access to my computer, and I only run trusted executables.
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Have you been around our nation lately? I know in my state (NC), which is known for both agriculture AND tech stuff, I know at least 50 farmers. Probably 1 out of every 10 people you meet will be farmers.
Your state != the entire nation
I was just thinking.
How scary would it be to go to bugzilla.election.gov.us or something and see "BUG #1212 -- Votes from Slashdot readers weighted based on karma"
I'm more afraid of a glitch along the lines of "all diebold machines count an extra presidential vote whenever this combination of votes is chosen" ... or something like that. Some kind of UNINTENTIONAL glitch to fuck up the results.
Although where I used to work, not with Win XP. I quit my job because they were just 'sliding' copies of 98/ME on new computers and using used 2k/XP OEM keys on new computers (which is illegal).
No job is worth a knock on the door from the BSA.
Hrm. I probably should post this AC, but oh well.
but there ARE some people out there still running FCKGW-* keys who are completely clueless as to the legality.
... wait ... FCKGW-*. I imagine it's a common scenario, and most of these people WILL drop the $100 for a legal copy upon finding out they got screwed.
I worked for a computer store, and we had at least 4 scenarios in 6 months where one of our customer bought Office/Windows XP off ebay, then we try to upgrade to SP1 to fix a problem and
http://forum.oldos.org/bbclone/show_global.php (for my forum)
and
http://www.oldos.org/bbclone/show_global.php (for my main site)
For lazy people like me, here's the summary:
Main site --
That's good man. Real good. Too bad some mod can't come along and think that...
Heh... you know, there have been some EXCELLENT replies to my post. It did what it was intended to do -- generate discussion. But I simply think it is UNFAIR that my post is modded "Overrated". You know what? Slashdot thinks that posts should only be modded down if they are "Offtopic", "Troll", or "Flamebait". My post was none of the above, and it really pisses me off that I'm penalized for the political views of the majority of /. readership.
Thank God I have karma to burn.
I am a strong supporter of Bush, and I realize these things:
Now I'm waiting for some liberal to come refute my facts, lol. Seriously though guys: It's like people who link to that worldvoting site... it's 75%/25% in favor of kerry in the US. That shows a bias. I tend to think the same with this site -- I know that in my experience, the people who favor Kerry get their facts from Fareignheit 9-11 and the liberal news media. Do some independent research people.
I'm really not a "closet conservative", but I learned to stop arguing politics a long time ago, because nothing good comes from it.
I live ~15 minutes from Lizard Lick, NC :-P
reciepts... mainly so I don't feel bad when I pull it out and there's no money... booyah, it's still thick.
Or my favorite... changing a $20 bill into $1s just to pad my wallet.
The total size of ads on my page: 25kb.
One of which is a persistently cached 13kb image, which is loaded once and never again, per my apache setup.
You don't wanna look at my ads? Thats fine. You have the choice of not visitng my site, or hell, if you're one of those people who don't mind donating, then block my ads, but my problem is that people expect to get quality content for free, then wanna block the ads that pay for it. I'm a member of a stuggling family, using free AOL disks to keep my website updated. Everytime you block an ad, you cost me money and make small-time webmasters like me just a tad more tempted to close the doors forever.
I understand there are some obnoxious ads... but if you want free content, deal with the ads. I mean, blocking flash ads... popup blocking... understandable. But I have a lot of people who block my google text ad and my sponsor banner on my site... which keeps me from having a lot of money come out of my pocket each month.
Troll if you're a gentoo user (like I am), maybe Funny if you're a cold bastard, but definately not insightful.
My fault, I've been avoiding the FA since I've been relegated to Dialup (no money for DSL bill :C).
Move along, nothing to see here...
Downloadable!
Someone got a link for those of us who already own the game?
Move it please.
Thank you,
A Concerned North Carolina Resident
the world ended yesterday
I ran a gcc34 + ~x86 ... it only broke once, and that was easily fixed.
Maybe you just have bad luck. (Not that I'd run in on production anything, mind you)
Clever troll. The whole idea is that gentoo is minimalistic. Yeah you gotta emerge some stuff after an install, but that's the whole point.
I don't use vi. I'm glad it's not included. Also, with the init scripts, it uses a BSD style init, so that is completely different that other linux distros.
echo 'net-www/mozilla-firefox ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
or if you care that much, just run ~x86.
The key feature most people miss about gentoo is that it's a great LEARNING DISTRO. I learned many times more in my 5 months of using gentoo than I did in using RHL/FC for a year. Not to mention the great docs/community... anyone who can follow EXACT directions, has some patience, and basic linux knowledge should be able to install Gentoo.
One thing (big thing) it missed about 2004.2 was the move from XFree default to XOrg...
Also... by slow development... I don't know what they mean? Portage is gaining features (try one of the pre-releases), and the ebuilds still fly out fast after new software is released.
Whenever I run linux (I move from Win/Linux often), Gentoo is my distro of choice by a long shot.
Usually if someone has new.net, or anotehr TCP/IP stack dropin, and you remove it using spybot, adaware, etc, instead of Add/Remove programs, you have to completely rebuild the TCP stack.
Possibly newer versions of ad aware do this for you?
Pretty well... yeah
All of them are obnoxious.
McAfee being the most so... it has one of those tray popups which will kill your fullscreen game.
PC-Cillin I don't think does anything obnoxious, but I haven't used it for a few years.
EZ-Trust Antivirus will popup a web browser directed to their site.
I think that's about it. I've never used Panda. I don't use a virus scanner, personally. I have a firewall and I'm the only one with access to my computer, and I only run trusted executables.