You're a pretty sick bastard to call 15 years, working to get his wife the dignity of actual death, a "whim"
Terri's nurse was asked by this "saint", and I quote - "Is the bitch dead yet?"
He was offered a huge sum of money by her parents and a divorce agreement, if he would let them take over her care. He refused. Don't you think her parents would be willing to go along with him if it was in everyone's best interest?
Terri isn't catatonic - she can move around, laughs at jokes, and can speak a few words. Just about the only thing she can't do at all is swallow.
The only issue on the table here is his perverted desire to have her killed. I think you're a pretty sick bastard to take this guy's side.
There's a simple rule of thumb that I tell everyone, and you should too - fancy-pants website + closed-source freeware = bad news.
However, it looks like this one is an exception. The EULA's and legal looks pretty solid. The guys who started it are ex-McAfee employees, with a tidy five million bucks to play with.
I imagine they have bigger plans than a spyware racket with this software, though I have no idea what. I would definately try it, but hell will freeze over before I give up my sexy GNOME desktop:D
The article says nothing about starting an X app. Read through yourself, it only talking about building and installing. Maybe implied starting since screenshots are shown, but nothing specifically mentioned.
Perhaps not too off base, as Alexadre and Linus seem to be in good communication. If you look at the WINE newsletter for the last week in December, not only is Linus shown as posting to their mailing lists, Linus is shown as having the greatest number of posts (18).
Very true. I used to have a Windows XP partition, but it was completely useless because it would freeze after about 10 minutes of use. My linux setup will freeze about twice a month if I leave it on 24/7.
Businesses in the market to sell PC's to the elderly better be prepared to fail.:D
Not to mention, most older folks probably won't think about buying a computer without talking to somebody who has one. And, of course, this bunny box will be universally unrecommended.
heh, so if I'm reading this right, they know the old installer is hard to use
Well, indirectly, since the new installer isn't "easy". The "easy" route is picking from a list of a whopping 7 choices. Pick "Desktop Machine" if you are okay with KDE, GNOME, and several other WM's being installed, and lots of random cruft, OR you get to do "Manual Package Selection", and wade through Debian's 8000+ packages. Neither the 7-super-mega-package-selection, nor the Manual Package Selection, is an option for most sane people. The only way to do it really is just installing the base system, and proceed with a self-paced Gentoo-style bit-by-bit install using apt-get. The difference in time spent installing, for me, was statistically insignificant.
This isn't necessarily bad, some of us like putting together systems that way, but thats another story...
It depends on the theater I guess. The theater by me is next door to a high school, so there is absolutely nothing they could do that would put them out of business. So, there are literally 25 minutes of ads and trailers before each movie. Last time I went, the movie "started" at 6:30. I got there, and got to bask in the glory of all the ads. Most of the people who ended up watching it came in at 6:45 or so. It's that predictable, and that bad.:)
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Perhaps this reasoning doesn't apply to embedded applications, but Gentoo would be a good choice for other architectures in general. How many program projects that you know of offer linux-ppc or linux-mips or linux-arm binaries? Gentoo supports these.
USE flags are very powerful - if and only if - you set them on a per package basis. If you just leave it to setting them globally like they suggest to you in the manual, you will forget/not realize something, screw it up and cause problems.
The USE flags are pretty straight forward when looking at them in the context of a particular package. Pass the -pv ([p]retend to not install the package yet, and [v]erbose to see what USE flags the package will do) option to emerge. Say you do emerge -pv kde. You will probably see that samba support is off by default! Big issues there if you need access to Windows network shares.
If you don't get what a USE flag means, you can always do a "less/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc" to get a description of most of them.
Usually what you do is blindly try "man ircd" at the terminal prompt, for example, or if that doesn't work, go to packages.gentoo.org , type in the package name, follow the homepage link, and find instructions there.
I ran into something weird like that that with a nightly I used a few days ago. Go to Preferences, and you'll see that your homepage setting blank, if you're running into the same thing. Retype it back in, and everything will be fine again.
Yes, but how many IE users are actually Firefox/Opera/whatever users
Yeah...the cool part is browsing around with the wrong user agent does more harm for getting into websites than good.
One time I was playing with the user agent swicher, and then accidentally left it on IE and started browsing around...and ran into one horribly rendering unusable site after another. I was trying to figure out what was going on, and eventually figured out it was stuck on IE. So, I went back through all the sites I had visited, and they were fine.
Maybe it was chance, but from my experience a lot of sites out there have browser-specific layouts. You get stuff like misaligned popup menus, and so you have to do stuff similar to the "how to keep an idiot busy game" to reach the menu before it closes.
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You're a pretty sick bastard to call 15 years, working to get his wife the dignity of actual death, a "whim"
Terri's nurse was asked by this "saint", and I quote - "Is the bitch dead yet?"
He was offered a huge sum of money by her parents and a divorce agreement, if he would let them take over her care. He refused. Don't you think her parents would be willing to go along with him if it was in everyone's best interest?
Terri isn't catatonic - she can move around, laughs at jokes, and can speak a few words. Just about the only thing she can't do at all is swallow.
The only issue on the table here is his perverted desire to have her killed. I think you're a pretty sick bastard to take this guy's side.
He's a hacker with a lack of experience in projects outside his own.
Are you sure? I thought he works pretty closely with Linux-related projects, when the need arises. For example, look here.
Note that Linus was the top poster for that week.
Not really, but it can be figured out from this nice chart.
The ad went out on December 16, 2004.
This is 37 days after the launch of Firefox. If you look to the downloads per day graph, there is a noticable increase afterward.
Who is the third?! Deaths always come in threes.
Well, we have a few candidates: Hunter S. Thompson?(Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
Or Sandra Dee(also known as Gidget)
Or Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
FORTRAN?
SCO?
Delicious Delicacies?
Spreadfirefox.com?
The company project manager?
However, it looks like this one is an exception.
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Err, nevemind.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137817&cid=11
There's a simple rule of thumb that I tell everyone, and you should too - fancy-pants website + closed-source freeware = bad news.
:D
However, it looks like this one is an exception. The EULA's and legal looks pretty solid. The guys who started it are ex-McAfee employees, with a tidy five million bucks to play with.
I imagine they have bigger plans than a spyware racket with this software, though I have no idea what. I would definately try it, but hell will freeze over before I give up my sexy GNOME desktop
This has been a test of the emergency RTFA system. We apologise for the inconvenience, and this was only a test.
The article says nothing about starting an X app. Read through yourself, it only talking about building and installing. Maybe implied starting since screenshots are shown, but nothing specifically mentioned.
No! Buy Epson, their printers are more Linux friendly :D
Perhaps not too off base, as Alexadre and Linus seem to be in good communication. If you look at the WINE newsletter for the last week in December, not only is Linus shown as posting to their mailing lists, Linus is shown as having the greatest number of posts (18).
Very true. I used to have a Windows XP partition, but it was completely useless because it would freeze after about 10 minutes of use. My linux setup will freeze about twice a month if I leave it on 24/7.
Businesses in the market to sell PC's to the elderly better be prepared to fail. :D
Not to mention, most older folks probably won't think about buying a computer without talking to somebody who has one. And, of course, this bunny box will be universally unrecommended.
heh, so if I'm reading this right, they know the old installer is hard to use
Well, indirectly, since the new installer isn't "easy". The "easy" route is picking from a list of a whopping 7 choices. Pick "Desktop Machine" if you are okay with KDE, GNOME, and several other WM's being installed, and lots of random cruft, OR you get to do "Manual Package Selection", and wade through Debian's 8000+ packages. Neither the 7-super-mega-package-selection, nor the Manual Package Selection, is an option for most sane people. The only way to do it really is just installing the base system, and proceed with a self-paced Gentoo-style bit-by-bit install using apt-get. The difference in time spent installing, for me, was statistically insignificant.
This isn't necessarily bad, some of us like putting together systems that way, but thats another story...
I believe in Windows XP theres a Help and Support service that you can disable, although that may be Compaq-specific. I've never tried killing it.
It depends on the theater I guess. The theater by me is next door to a high school, so there is absolutely nothing they could do that would put them out of business. So, there are literally 25 minutes of ads and trailers before each movie. Last time I went, the movie "started" at 6:30. I got there, and got to bask in the glory of all the ads. Most of the people who ended up watching it came in at 6:45 or so. It's that predictable, and that bad. :)
Perhaps this reasoning doesn't apply to embedded applications, but Gentoo would be a good choice for other architectures in general. How many program projects that you know of offer linux-ppc or linux-mips or linux-arm binaries? Gentoo supports these.
These are controlled by people, so unless an enemy whacked the soldier and took his joystick away, this shouldn't be a problem.
USE flags are very powerful - if and only if - you set them on a per package basis. If you just leave it to setting them globally like they suggest to you in the manual, you will forget/not realize something, screw it up and cause problems.
/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc" to get a description of most of them.
The USE flags are pretty straight forward when looking at them in the context of a particular package. Pass the -pv ([p]retend to not install the package yet, and [v]erbose to see what USE flags the package will do) option to emerge. Say you do emerge -pv kde. You will probably see that samba support is off by default! Big issues there if you need access to Windows network shares.
If you don't get what a USE flag means, you can always do a "less
Usually what you do is blindly try "man ircd" at the terminal prompt, for example, or if that doesn't work, go to packages.gentoo.org , type in the package name, follow the homepage link, and find instructions there.
Say, if you emerged ngircd, the man method don't work, so you do the search, follow the homepage link, where you find installation instructions.
Screenshot
It's not that big, about Firefox-large-icons size. But, with the indent and monstrous title bar, it does look a bit rediculous.
No, it isn't returned...several E-machines I have came with Netscape 6.2. I've been wondering about that for a while :D
The campaign is "over", but they are still soliciting donations for name slots on the ad. Its not too late!
I ran into something weird like that that with a nightly I used a few days ago. Go to Preferences, and you'll see that your homepage setting blank, if you're running into the same thing. Retype it back in, and everything will be fine again.
Yes, but how many IE users are actually Firefox/Opera/whatever users
Yeah...the cool part is browsing around with the wrong user agent does more harm for getting into websites than good.
One time I was playing with the user agent swicher, and then accidentally left it on IE and started browsing around...and ran into one horribly rendering unusable site after another. I was trying to figure out what was going on, and eventually figured out it was stuck on IE. So, I went back through all the sites I had visited, and they were fine.
Maybe it was chance, but from my experience a lot of sites out there have browser-specific layouts. You get stuff like misaligned popup menus, and so you have to do stuff similar to the "how to keep an idiot busy game" to reach the menu before it closes.
A bit scarry when you consider that my skin must have been exposed for at least a similar amount of time....
:D
No worry there, the cholesterol in your skin helps prevent that sort of damage. Know why they say eating skin of animals is bad? Same reason.
You only really have to start worrying about your skin if you get frostbite...and by then you've probably got bigger worries