This lets you back up your data to a drive on the other side of the planet. Because offsite copies at your house aren't enough, you must plan for a comet strike.
The copyright term has been extended from 70 to 90 years with life-supported rockers expressing their delight."
The cover of Rolling Stone's article in 2031 has a picture of Kieth Richards and he still looks the same as he did in 2011.
He has requested virgin blood sacrifices and the media companies had just succeeded in getting "Aging Rocker Blood Sacrifice" laws pushed through legislatures everywhere. The Robotic Dick Cheney was the first to sign it into law.
Go to a place where they have CAT scan, a hospital or a private company.
Get a scan
Call up a company with a Dimension printer or other 3D printer. There are 3D printers that also do powdered metallurgy sintering with lasers. (and nowadays there is more 3D printing technology than you can shake a stick at. Can you say "powdered metal ceramic"? I knew you could).
I call myself Bob. If someone sends mail to me addressed to Bob at Anytown, USA, and they really meant to send it to Alice at Anytown, USA, it doesn't matter who it was "meant for" - the outside of the envelope clearly says "Bob Anytown, USA"
An animated frowny-face when I go to Install? And second guessing me?
Fucking really?
I'm sorry, but this is unacceptable in a utility software.
There is a quality I see in good software. I call it 'neatness'. It's a tough quality to describe. Neat software does something useful, does it with aplomb, and has a simple, spare, self-descriptive interface that does not surprise the user in bad ways. But it's more than that. It's software that, when used, puts a smile on your face because of its elegance.
OK so I tried Soluto in a VM. I was curious and downloaded it.
Granted that a VM is not a real machine, it shouldn't make any difference in this sort of software. But it does. The VM install of Windows is pretty spare. It has only a few programs that I actually fuck around with in Windows. It takes under 10 seconds to get to login and under 5 for the desktop to appear. So it's no slouch.
1. Soluto's a pig. Oink Oink. It will not even install if you have less than 512MB of RAM, which a lot of people do if they're still running XP (which is a huge amount of people). This means typically 256 or 384MB or 512MB with "shared graphics memory" cutting it down. I know, people should upgrade, but this isn't some sort of 3D modeling program, it's just a startup trimmer and browser fixer.
2. It's a sloth. It's slow as molasses in January. The install is slow and the interaction is slow. And its disk footprint is huge for what it does.
3. It/insists/ on using flashy 3D graphics calls. I know that you have to please the drooling masses somehow, but this is one of the main causes of #2. In a VM it turns the interface/unusable/. I had flashbacks of Norton in the 9x days.
In short, this program has loads of fat that should be cut off and thrown in the fire. It should reflect what it purportedly does - speed up your machine. This is not done by adding useless frippery.
TV deals in aggregate statistics. It's done so for decades.
Nailing it down to individuals with names is not what TV has done/at all/. One is more evil than the other. If you don't understand this, you're a retard.
Slashdot Mirror
And every other product is just a rehash of this.
rsync
ssh
cron
This lets you back up your data to a drive on the other side of the planet. Because offsite copies at your house aren't enough, you must plan for a comet strike.
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The copyright term has been extended from 70 to 90 years with life-supported rockers expressing their delight."
The cover of Rolling Stone's article in 2031 has a picture of Kieth Richards and he still looks the same as he did in 2011.
He has requested virgin blood sacrifices and the media companies had just succeeded in getting "Aging Rocker Blood Sacrifice" laws pushed through legislatures everywhere. The Robotic Dick Cheney was the first to sign it into law.
This is like saying back in the dialup days "who needs speeds faster than a T1? It's not like the text is going to get read any faster"
Going to faster throughput makes other things possible that previously weren't.
I don't see the Koreans or the Swedes giving up their fast-as-shit-through-a-goose internet connections because "they don't need it."
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You can do this.
Go to a place where they have CAT scan, a hospital or a private company.
Get a scan
Call up a company with a Dimension printer or other 3D printer. There are 3D printers that also do powdered metallurgy sintering with lasers. (and nowadays there is more 3D printing technology than you can shake a stick at. Can you say "powdered metal ceramic"? I knew you could).
Send them the data.
Have them print it.
Pay for all this.
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Msconfig is not exactly difficult to understand.
The only reason people don't use it more often is that they don't know about it.
It does the job.
It doesn't give you any crap about doing its job.
Therefore I consider this good software. I consider it far better than a glitzed up bells and whistles replacement for msconfig.
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But it's not addressed to someone else.
I call myself Bob. If someone sends mail to me addressed to Bob at Anytown, USA, and they really meant to send it to Alice at Anytown, USA, it doesn't matter who it was "meant for" - the outside of the envelope clearly says "Bob Anytown, USA"
I fucking own it. Go ahead, try to sue me.
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I have to append this. The only way to get someone to change his/her domain is trademark law and icann dispute resolution.
If it's not dispute resolution through icann, then there's no changing it.
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>But the recipient was fraudulently pretending to be someone else
Nope. Nobody was representing themselves as "important.institution.com," they were representing themselves as "important.insttution.com"
It's the old whitehouse.gov/whitehouse.com "problem."
Even the US government couldn't make whitehouse.com change their name.
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I like this.
An asshole rating like a credit rating...
We'd even have shows on NPR or PRI about it just like the money shows.
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...the lawyers are disbarred, the company closed, their offices destroyed, and the land salted with plutonium dust.
Righthaven Delenda Est!
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Virtual "asshole" stickers, to be electronically tagged to aggressive / stupid / texting / drinking / inattentive drivers.
Get enough Asshole stickers and you get a ticket.
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>you're then stuck with whatever Ubuntu sends you for the next two years?
As if PPAs don't exist.
As if I can't compile my own with the 3 magic words of configure ; make ; checkinstall -D
As if the real version of 10.04 isn't 10.04.3 right now.
At this point 10.04 is damn near bulletproof. Enjoy your instability with 11.10 when it comes out.
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No mail was stolen. It was delivered exactly where it was addresst.
It's the fault of the monkey behind the keyboard and nobody else.
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>Let us see if that stupid boilerplate text has any legal standing
It doesn't. It didn't work for real mail so why should it work for email?
You get something unsolicited, and you are free to do with it whatever you choose. It's up to the sender to get the address right in all cases.
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Seriously, what's stopping users from sticking with an LTS?
I've stuck with 10.04 and I couldn't be happier.
This fake outrage about having to update every month is FUD pure and simple.
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What a passive-aggressive piece of shit.
An animated frowny-face when I go to Install? And second guessing me?
Fucking really?
I'm sorry, but this is unacceptable in a utility software.
There is a quality I see in good software. I call it 'neatness'. It's a tough quality to describe. Neat software does something useful, does it with aplomb, and has a simple, spare, self-descriptive interface that does not surprise the user in bad ways. But it's more than that. It's software that, when used, puts a smile on your face because of its elegance.
Soluto is anything but that.
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OK so I tried Soluto in a VM. I was curious and downloaded it.
Granted that a VM is not a real machine, it shouldn't make any difference in this sort of software. But it does. The VM install of Windows is pretty spare. It has only a few programs that I actually fuck around with in Windows. It takes under 10 seconds to get to login and under 5 for the desktop to appear. So it's no slouch.
1. Soluto's a pig. Oink Oink. It will not even install if you have less than 512MB of RAM, which a lot of people do if they're still running XP (which is a huge amount of people). This means typically 256 or 384MB or 512MB with "shared graphics memory" cutting it down. I know, people should upgrade, but this isn't some sort of 3D modeling program, it's just a startup trimmer and browser fixer.
2. It's a sloth. It's slow as molasses in January. The install is slow and the interaction is slow. And its disk footprint is huge for what it does.
3. It /insists/ on using flashy 3D graphics calls. I know that you have to please the drooling masses somehow, but this is one of the main causes of #2. In a VM it turns the interface /unusable/. I had flashbacks of Norton in the 9x days.
In short, this program has loads of fat that should be cut off and thrown in the fire. It should reflect what it purportedly does - speed up your machine. This is not done by adding useless frippery.
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Take Mac Mini motherboard out of chassis.
Replace hard disk with SSD
Submerge everything in a mineral oil filled aquarium. Put in fake fish, gravel, a castle, and a bubble pump, for an authentic effect.
??????
Profit!
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Old Atari heads know that you can stack RAM on top of the existing RAM packages and solder them in the 520 and 1040 ST machines.
This is basically doing the same thing, but inside the package.
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I said:
>Anyone know how I can label all DigiNotar certs bad in Chrome or similar?
Follow up.
In Chrome.
>Preferences
>Under the hood
>SSL
>scroll down until you see DigiNotar
>click Edit
>uncheck "trust this for...."
Done.
I just got an update for Ubuntu's xulrunner (a part of firefox) that labels all DigiNotar certs as untrusted.
The shunning of DigiNotar is beginning. As it should.
Anyone know how I can label all DigiNotar certs bad in Chrome or similar?
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At least it costs a kilobuck, so that the idiots who buy these things can also lose a bit of dosh while losing an eye.
And since green also shows up in the atmosphere better, the cops can better locate you when you shine it on their helicopter.
"Do not look into laser aperture with remaining good eye"
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Alt.sex.watersports never involved synchronized swimming, either.
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If he's wrong then why the real names policy?
TV deals in aggregate statistics. It's done so for decades.
Nailing it down to individuals with names is not what TV has done /at all/. One is more evil than the other. If you don't understand this, you're a retard.
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Niche product is niche product.
I suppose you could call a Telxon a handheld computer too. But it's a niche product too.
So no, Fujitsu's tablets aren't general purpose enough to count.
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