Is GIMP better? Hell no. But it works well enough for what I do, and I get a fair bit of work done with it, and ImageMagick.
I haven't had to write equations in my word processor, but as far as writing up resumes and program descriptions it works fine, is just as easy to use as Office, and I've never had anyone be able to tell that I didn't write it in Office, and I've looked at it on other machines, looks fine. LaTeX is extremely good for equations and the like, I've never had to resort to using it but I've seen the output and it beats the pants off of stuff I've seen come out of Office. I do doubt that I would be able to work as fast in LaTeX as Office, however.
But that's not the original point I was responding to. Linux does get the work done, as long as it's the right kind of work. That's true for any tool. If you want to pound a nail, don't use a screwdriver. If you want to do some hardcore image editing, don't use GIMP (I'm not sure about this from personal experience, but I've heard it enough times from pros to believe it). If you want a secure and open development environment, don't use Windows.
The issue I have with your post is that you say, or at the very least imply, that Linux isn't good for getting any work done. That isn't true, it's just not good for as many things as Windows is. But as long as people think Linux isn't good for anything, that'll remain mostly true. Here's one thing Linux is real good at: Having programs written for it, and providing a stable, secure, sane and open environment for them. The multiple API's are converging in a way that will eventually allow anything to be dropped into place. Gnome and KDE, which is what I assume you're primarily talking about, are far more interoperable than they were 2 years ago, and have plans to get even closer. If that's not what you were talking about, the usual way it works is that Linux has multiple different ways to do things until finally a way comes out that's just so much better it becomes the standard. Every time a program is written for Linux, it gets good at something else.
You call it zealotry, I call it a decision to support the better way, and not give my money to a company whose practices I abhor, fully aware of the drawbacks of the choice I made and easily able to overcome them.
Haven't had a Windows partition in over 2 years. I process words. I manipulate photos. I bank. I game. I print. I work, all the time (OK, a lot anyway), and get a lot more done than most people I know running Windows or Mac.
Most Slashdotters would call you a troll, but I think that's giving you too much credit. You, like pretty much everyone else, just don't know.
Wait, he got dumped? That doesn't seem the right way around. If I found out that my GF or her parents were looking at my tax records I would flip my fucking shit! I'd go straight to the parent, threaten legal action if anything even remotely like that happened again, and if the GF didn't agree she'd find herself kicked to the curb so fast her head would spin.
Hey, if a girl wants to Google me, or look up other publically available information I might not like it--then again I might find it flattering--but if someone will stoop to illegal means to spy on me, I want nothing to do with scum like that. I hope this friend of yours has grown a pair since that incident, an inheritance ain't worth that kind of crap.
Speaking as someone who has had to support software written by people with no concept of security, if it is even remotely doable, even if it means a fair amount of work, take that machine off the domain. Jail and firewall the everloving snot out of it, don't let any data into it except through very controlled routes, and don't give it any privileges on the network, then give it all the admin rights it needs. Basically, just change it from a piece of software into an entire dedicated appliance.
Although you could spend the time to try and fix their problems, this kind of thing will come up over and over again. You'll save yourself time and effort if you nail it down now.
So yeah, I just read that forum thread, and although nobody was successful in solving your problem, the main thing that I got out of it is that you're a douchebag. It's OK, but you're not wanted here. We don't lose anything if you go away, so just... go. Dell will suck your dick to get your money, go play with them. You seem to enjoy being abusive to people trying to help you, and they have people that get paid to take it and fired if they bite back. It's really the best thing for all of us.
Insecure memory? Unless I'm missing something huge here, one process can't read another's memory. Can you give an example of how something can end up in "insecure" memory?. Maybe if you have access to/dev/(k)mem. Same goes for swap afaik. If those problems haven't been solved long ago, any Linux distro is swiss cheese.
Which means it's as simple as a GUI prompt for the password, and a pipe to passwd, no writing to disk necessary at all.
Because when you have a too-closely coupled food circle, you make an excellent environment for parasites, and they kill you. Cannibalism is an instinctual horror because of millions of years of evolution.
Now, before you say that you have no instinctual horror when you think of eating human, remember that you're, well, human, and your big ass frontal lobe makes instinct a little distant. But I bet it's different if you've got a big slab of sizzling human thigh in front of you.
Now that I think about it though, given that we cook our food nowadays we may be one of the first animals in history that could actually get away with it.
The original version worked fine, unless you started with a full beer. If you didn't start with a full beer, you get one, then chug it, leaving you with a non-full beer and the loop continues.
In your case, you get a new beer, and chug it until it's not full anymore, then only continue with the loop if you've managed to chug the entire beer. I suppose you could say that chug() implies an entire beer, but if that's the case, why the loop?
Although, and maybe this is your original intent, if you can't chug an entire beer, you're probably pretty drunk, and maybe it's time to stop. If so, you've actually managed to stay on topic by modifying someone's sig to apply moderation! Well done, even if it was an accident.
Meh, doesn't much matter when you're playing MP3s on it. Nobody will even notice, and since compressed music gets squirrly around those ranges anyway it'll probably end up sounding better as long as they have high/low-pass filtering to avoid the distortion at the edges of the drivers' response.
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I've heard of this; it's a condition known in academic circles as "drunk."
Well, now you're changing the rules.
Is GIMP better? Hell no. But it works well enough for what I do, and I get a fair bit of work done with it, and ImageMagick.
I haven't had to write equations in my word processor, but as far as writing up resumes and program descriptions it works fine, is just as easy to use as Office, and I've never had anyone be able to tell that I didn't write it in Office, and I've looked at it on other machines, looks fine. LaTeX is extremely good for equations and the like, I've never had to resort to using it but I've seen the output and it beats the pants off of stuff I've seen come out of Office. I do doubt that I would be able to work as fast in LaTeX as Office, however.
But that's not the original point I was responding to. Linux does get the work done, as long as it's the right kind of work. That's true for any tool. If you want to pound a nail, don't use a screwdriver. If you want to do some hardcore image editing, don't use GIMP (I'm not sure about this from personal experience, but I've heard it enough times from pros to believe it). If you want a secure and open development environment, don't use Windows.
The issue I have with your post is that you say, or at the very least imply, that Linux isn't good for getting any work done. That isn't true, it's just not good for as many things as Windows is. But as long as people think Linux isn't good for anything, that'll remain mostly true. Here's one thing Linux is real good at: Having programs written for it, and providing a stable, secure, sane and open environment for them. The multiple API's are converging in a way that will eventually allow anything to be dropped into place. Gnome and KDE, which is what I assume you're primarily talking about, are far more interoperable than they were 2 years ago, and have plans to get even closer. If that's not what you were talking about, the usual way it works is that Linux has multiple different ways to do things until finally a way comes out that's just so much better it becomes the standard. Every time a program is written for Linux, it gets good at something else.
You call it zealotry, I call it a decision to support the better way, and not give my money to a company whose practices I abhor, fully aware of the drawbacks of the choice I made and easily able to overcome them.
Haven't had a Windows partition in over 2 years. I process words. I manipulate photos. I bank. I game. I print. I work, all the time (OK, a lot anyway), and get a lot more done than most people I know running Windows or Mac.
Most Slashdotters would call you a troll, but I think that's giving you too much credit. You, like pretty much everyone else, just don't know.
Wait, he got dumped? That doesn't seem the right way around. If I found out that my GF or her parents were looking at my tax records I would flip my fucking shit! I'd go straight to the parent, threaten legal action if anything even remotely like that happened again, and if the GF didn't agree she'd find herself kicked to the curb so fast her head would spin.
Hey, if a girl wants to Google me, or look up other publically available information I might not like it--then again I might find it flattering--but if someone will stoop to illegal means to spy on me, I want nothing to do with scum like that. I hope this friend of yours has grown a pair since that incident, an inheritance ain't worth that kind of crap.
Speaking as someone who has had to support software written by people with no concept of security, if it is even remotely doable, even if it means a fair amount of work, take that machine off the domain. Jail and firewall the everloving snot out of it, don't let any data into it except through very controlled routes, and don't give it any privileges on the network, then give it all the admin rights it needs. Basically, just change it from a piece of software into an entire dedicated appliance.
Although you could spend the time to try and fix their problems, this kind of thing will come up over and over again. You'll save yourself time and effort if you nail it down now.
I like it!
So yeah, I just read that forum thread, and although nobody was successful in solving your problem, the main thing that I got out of it is that you're a douchebag. It's OK, but you're not wanted here. We don't lose anything if you go away, so just ... go. Dell will suck your dick to get your money, go play with them. You seem to enjoy being abusive to people trying to help you, and they have people that get paid to take it and fired if they bite back. It's really the best thing for all of us.
view "internal" {
match-clients {
10.0.0.0/8;
};
recursion yes;
zone "example.com" {
yadda yadda yadda;
};
};
view "external" {
match-clients {
any;
};
recursion no;
zone "example.com" {
blah blah blah;
};
};
It's OK, it'll be another 4 months before 2.14 is in stable.
I think someone who fights a bully and doesn't die is a more effective anti-bully than the Columbine idiots.
Insecure memory? Unless I'm missing something huge here, one process can't read another's memory. Can you give an example of how something can end up in "insecure" memory?. Maybe if you have access to /dev/(k)mem. Same goes for swap afaik. If those problems haven't been solved long ago, any Linux distro is swiss cheese.
Which means it's as simple as a GUI prompt for the password, and a pipe to passwd, no writing to disk necessary at all.
Because when you have a too-closely coupled food circle, you make an excellent environment for parasites, and they kill you. Cannibalism is an instinctual horror because of millions of years of evolution.
Now, before you say that you have no instinctual horror when you think of eating human, remember that you're, well, human, and your big ass frontal lobe makes instinct a little distant. But I bet it's different if you've got a big slab of sizzling human thigh in front of you.
Now that I think about it though, given that we cook our food nowadays we may be one of the first animals in history that could actually get away with it.
There may be something to your theory. You're an idiot, where did you grow up?
Mmm Catholic school-girls...
The original version worked fine, unless you started with a full beer. If you didn't start with a full beer, you get one, then chug it, leaving you with a non-full beer and the loop continues.
In your case, you get a new beer, and chug it until it's not full anymore, then only continue with the loop if you've managed to chug the entire beer. I suppose you could say that chug() implies an entire beer, but if that's the case, why the loop?
Although, and maybe this is your original intent, if you can't chug an entire beer, you're probably pretty drunk, and maybe it's time to stop. If so, you've actually managed to stay on topic by modifying someone's sig to apply moderation! Well done, even if it was an accident.
That's probably a lowball estimate. Don't forget that basically every product we consume takes water to make, sometimes a whole lot of it.
Meh, doesn't much matter when you're playing MP3s on it. Nobody will even notice, and since compressed music gets squirrly around those ranges anyway it'll probably end up sounding better as long as they have high/low-pass filtering to avoid the distortion at the edges of the drivers' response.
Sure as hell isn't worth $350 though.
Seconded! Marvelous tag idea :)
Er, not reverse. You know what I mean. Blah.
The IP in question should have a reverse ARP query done on it before a lease is assigned. What's the issue?
That's illegal.
Attempting to sue a car into existence would be the modern way...
That's not irony, fool, at best it's hypocrisy. It's not that either, but hey, I'll give you something at least.
Fuck George Carlin. All he has is a bunch of lowbrow pseudo-intellectual douchebag shit that he tries to pass off as "enlightened" and "funny."
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