The Rangers were pissed when they found out everyone was going to get their black berets - imagine how pissed they will be when they find out they're going to be renamed "Power Rangers"...
"But I don't WANNA be the pink one!"
Seriously though, I hear the Somalis nicknamed the Americans "Ninja Turtles" because they wore so much armor. I imagine that image will just get worse with these bodysuits.
We just got a new PC for my mom. She uses it mostly for e-mail and usual business stuff, plus games like CivIII, SimCity 3000, nothing that really needs a lot of horsepower. Our specs were:
XP 2600($94), Abit NF7-S($91), 512MB Ram($92), GeForce4 MX440($39), DVD-RW ($149), plus a LCD monitor and video capture card that pushed the price a bit over $1000. What's suprising though, is that the DVD drive ended up being the most expensive thing to go into the box.
Most people definitely don't need the top of the line models. Even my friend who is a gamer said he is probobly not going to go all-out for the best components. I keep wondering who these people are that keep buying Opterons or Athlon64s.
I just bought a new computer, and AMD's offerings confused the hell out of me. I'm a computer geek, but I'd been tinkering with Linux for a few years, and hadn't paid attention to new hardware. When I looked at new hardware this week, I found AMD had spawned half a dozen chips and at least three sockets. It was bad enough that you had to search for the best Intel CPU/Motherboard set and compare it with the best AMD combo, now you have to see which socket's best price/performance ratio suits you.
While this decision by Intel is for the "Enterprise" market instead of the home market, I really wish AMD would simplify their sockets so that I can at least compare chips without worrying about motherboards, and vice-versa.
I haven't finished reading through the article, but I remember reading about this in one of James Bamford's book about the NSA, "Body of Secrets" or "The Puzzle Palace". Basically, when you bounce a directional radio beam off the moon, it can't be intercepted by anyone except those near the place on Earth where the beam bounces back to. This would allow Navy ships at sea to send a message from the open ocean, to the moon, then to Washington without having the message picked up by the Russians. Pretty neat trick, actually.
The reason this was in Bamford's book was that the USS Liberty, the Navy eavesdropping ship that was attacked by the Israelis in 1967, had this type of system on board and it was its primary method of communicating with the NSA people in the US. Unfortunately, the system was unreliable, and the hydraulics or pnumatics controlling the directional antenna often broke, making it unusable. Partly because of this, the ship never got the message to stay away from the conflict zone and was bombed. That's how I remember it, at least.
Maybe that's the danger of relying too much on bleeding-edge technology.
Anyone here heard of other stories of this technology?
More on K) Music videos - Just an excuse to list some favorite music videos and directors : )
Try looking for the works of Mark Romanek - he's done a whole bunch of good videos like Nine Inch Nails' "Closer", Beck's "Devil's Haircut", etc. You can actually get all his videos off of his website, go download them and load them into a video editor to study. I don't want to link to his site off of Slashdot because they're big files, but if you're motivated, you can go find it yourself(enter his name into Google) ; )He has done one feature film, "One Hour Photo" with Robin Williams.
Michael Moore has directed some music videos, notably Rage Against the Machine's "Testify" and "Sleep Now In The Fire", plus System of a Down's "BOOM", and a R.E.M. video. Whether you like him or not, he does have a style that might be more approachable, since he tends to use a lot of stock footage edited together instead of filming a lot of scenes specifically. "Testify" is really 'Moore-esqe', it consists of video footage from TV and old movies spliced together with the band to make a satirical political message. It was released in 2000, and contains a pro-Nader message. "Sleep Now I The Fire" is a live 'concert' played in front of the New York Stock Exchange where the police got called and broke it up. Not something an amatuer filmmaker could do, but still funny, especially the stockbrokers rocking out : )
I can think of some other good videos, but don't know their directors - Beck's "Loser", Rammstein's "Ich Will", Beastie Boy's "Sabotage", Alice in Chain's "Jeremy", and Tori Amos' "Rasberry Swirl". Not sure if this helps, but it can't hurt to watch these, and it'll be fun : )
Damn, reading this discussions has been really depressing. Too many people have the attitude that "Well, everyone else should speak English, just like me". The whole point of Orkut is supposedly to allow networking of friends - what's the point, if it's going to force you not to speak your native toungue?
To me, it seems like bad design to begin with. Why can't you filter out posts based on language, if they don't want people to be bothered by other languages? It's something I think they should have thought of when they were designing a "social network" - Google handles multi-language search pretty well, so it's not like they'd never dealt with the issue before.
The fact is, most of the world doesn't speak English, at least among themselves. Why should they use a second or third language to talk to their friends on a "social networking" site? It's perfectly understandable that you should speak English in a thread started in English, but why should you stop people from speaking their native language in their own threads?
Yes, English is the "lingua franca" of the internet, it's very useful when communicating between two people who don't speak the same native language. That doesn't mean you should be forced to speak it with your friends when you'd rather speak another language.
Why, as a matter of fact, they do! Why don't y'all come down here to have a look-see? It's as good as the real thing, Ah swear!
Yeesh, who wants to go over to see some ruins in Greece when you can get all the culture you want down here? We just got our second Wal-Mart, it's quite a sight! I don't know why they even host the olympics in some other country, as if Greece has some olympic prestiege over good 'ol Georgia...
Who cares about some stupid 'classified' data at a nuclear lab? That pales in comparison to this - U2's new album has been stolen! I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Is there no God?!
FYI, the parent poster is reffering to RoboCop:) I love how "Uphold the law" is last on the list...
Too many oppurtunities for parody!
"The First Law of Robotic Fight Club is, you do not talk about Robotic Fight Club! The Second Law of Robotic Fight Club is, you DO NOT talk about Robotic Fight Club!... The Eighth Law is, if it's your first night here, you have to sing backup for Will Smith."
Bender's Three Laws: "First Law: Bender may not spill booze, or through inaction, allow booze to be left undrunk. Second Law: Bender must obey orders given to him by humans, except when he doesn't wanna. Third Law: Bender must protect his shiny metal ass. Zeroth Law: Bender must follow all three laws of robotics - with blackjack! And Hookers! Hell, forget the laws and blackjack!"
Hell, those 'o us went to community college in Dixie, can spell 'went', too... But why y'all gettin' werked-up 'bout a little syph-luss? Don't everybody got it over thear, too?
And shucks, 500 pounds ain't nuthin'! This one time, I hacked into the school computah (a commie 64), and I had to pay 700 pounds of hogmeat! You boys in Eng-land got it easy! Try comin' to Oxford, Mississippi fer a REAL edu-cation!
Just what we need, even *more* conspiratorial rants against moderators and editors. What do you think he would post if he was here? Probobly something like:
"Damn, modded flamebait again! Must be those Jewish moderators, they're all out to get me!"
"I've been trying to post the TRUTH about the Jewish conspiracy behind Microsoft, but the evil Zionist editors won't let me!"
Of course, one more crazy dude probobly would get lost in the noise here... Maybe he's been here all along, trolling instead of playing chess?
I've been thinking about upgrading my local file server(videos and stuff, nothing important) from Red Hat 9 to a more modern distro. Would Slackware be a good choice, or should I go with Fedora? I've heard that Slackware does not have a good update tool like apt or yum. Does Slack have a good GUI configuration interface, or is it all CLI?
I'm not a complete newbie, I've tried Debian, Mandrake, and RH before, so I know my way around Linux. I just don't want to go through the pain of another Debian install, and I'm not sure that Mandrake is robust enough. I'd appreciate any expert advice on this, thanks.
"...you may kiss the bride." "Hold on, let me compose this shot... good. Now, hold this and press that button when I go up there and kiss."
Unless you have a third hand and eye, you're still going to have to hire a photographer. Remember, unless otherwise stated in a contract, the copyright belongs to the person who takes the photo, not the owner of the equipment.
"I know it's not 'cool' to want to be like your dad, but I really do! All my manipulation and grandstanding in front of congress about that stupid boobie thing is just practice until I can do it just like dad! *sigh* I want to mislead the UN and start a war, too..."
"Dad is so cool, I sometimes dress up in his old army clothes, they're rad! Oops, if you're reading this, don't tell him that, he'd be mad, might even ground me:( "
"I wish the State Dept. had a 'take your kid to work day', that would be so cool! I bet I could run Afghanistan way better than that guy in the funny hat. I might even get to see Condi, what a hottie! (drool...)"
In all fairness, I'm sure his actual blog is much more boring. He's a bearucrat, he can't say or do anything interesting or original if he wants to keep his job. Personally, I'd rather see the Bush twins' blog. Much more 'interesting' content, and I'm willing to pay for the "Premium content" part! : )
Nah, it'd go something like this, depending on what country did it:
Israel: "A local man was found dead this afternoon of an apparent shooting accident. Police speculate that Bruce Simpson was playing with his.22 pistol when he accidentally placed it at the back of his skull and shot himself."
CIA: "The U.S. Airforce has promised an inquiry into the recent incident where local resident Bruce Simpson was accidentally bombed in his house and killed. Officials believe the air force may have been ordered to "send Simpson one of thier new cruise missles for review" when a technician misinterpreted the orders and fired at the coordinates instead."
MI6: "A recent high-speed chase involving local police and a Aston-Martin fitted with rockets, machine guns and oil slicks ended in tragedy when Mr. Bruce Simpson of New Zealand was lasered in half by the driver, a man police say was dressed very well and ordered a martini shaken, not stirreed at a local club before going on the rampage."
New Zealand: "The New Zealand intelligence service has admitted to bludgeoning Mr. Bruce Simpson to death with sticks. New Zealanders have expressed shock that their country actually posseses an intelligence service."
(To the tunes of "Happiest days of our lives" and "Another brick in the wall pt. 2" by Pink Floyd)
Well when we grew up and went to work, There were certain managers, Who would hurt the Vaxen any way they could. By pouring their derision, Upon anything they did, Driving Digital out of business, However carefully they made the Vax.
But in the town it was well known, When they got home at night, Their fat and psychopathic PCs would thrash them, Within inches of their lives.
We don't need to reset button We don't need no windows key No dark sarcasm on the Slashdot Manager, leave those Vaxen alone! Hay, manager, leave those Vaxen alone!
All in all it's just another Vax in the wall All in all it's just another Troll in the wall
Okay, I've heard plenty of 'interesting' things about scientologists, the church of sci, and L. Ron himself, but very little on the book itself apart from the fact that it's a 'self-help' book that a religion was based off of. Can anyone tell me what the book actually says, or point me to a online summary, preferably from a impartial source?
Go right ahead, I'd prefer if you'd either credit me or make a link to the post itself from your page. Oh, and post a link to your linux page here, I'd like to see what you have...
A good geek should know about the ones that came before, and learn from their mistakes and triumphs. Some books on geek history:
In The Beginning Was The Command Line by Neal Stephenson is a good overview of the culture of Linux, Macintosh, Be, and Microsoft in essay form. I've given it to non-computer geeks to teach them about Linux, and why it's different from windows. He talks about how modern society tries to impose a false image over everything to make things easier to deal with(like Disney) and compares that to the GUI vs. CLI differences. I don't agree with everything he says, but Stephenson is definitely a great writer, and he has the book available free at the link I put in.
Hackers by Steven Levy covers important epochs of the hacker culture, from its beginning at MIT to game developers in the 80s. It even has a chapter on Stallman starting GNU! A must-read for any geek.
"Mommy, where do linuxes come from?" "Well, when a man and a penguin are in love..." "They kiss?" "Well that, and they fuck." "fa-?" "It's when a man and his penguin get in bed together, and make little baby penguins." "Wow, I didn't know penguins could do that." "It's very natural, honey. You just have to make sure you don't catch BSDs." "Was Red Hat made like that?" "All the distros were made like this - first Linus had an affair with Tux. Their offspring was named Linux. Then Linux had a child named Yggdrasil, who died very young. In despair Linux joined a cult and had a child with its leader, Pat Volkerding who named their child Slackware. Then Linux became a slut and had children with Bob Young, Ian Murdock, and a whole bunch of other geeks who could never get it on with real women. A whole bunch of kids and grandkids, all of whom go back to Linus and Tux getting drunk together in a Helsinki dorm room." "Aren't I too young to be hearing this?" "No one's too young to learn the facts of Linux, honey."
I'm a programmer who knows a couple of languages, but has never taken an advanced CS theory or project management class. I'd like people's opinions on what books to read to make me a better coder and help me understand the broad concepts, not just doing rote stuff in a new language.
Is UML useful? How about books on secure programming? Are design patterns a good tool? Will learning things like assembly or Lisp teach me anything useful?
Stucky? Is that you? Just kidding, you reminded me of a friend who used to live in the basement. The place was a complete dump, but had over $20k of electronics stuff in it(and this was when he was in highschool)...
Anyways, you should look into getting a plug-in flashlight which will plug into a wall socket to recharge, and turn on when the power goes off. I believe they can be found at large hardware stores, and are a lot cheaper than a tritium sign.
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The Rangers were pissed when they found out everyone was going to get their black berets - imagine how pissed they will be when they find out they're going to be renamed "Power Rangers"...
"But I don't WANNA be the pink one!"
Seriously though, I hear the Somalis nicknamed the Americans "Ninja Turtles" because they wore so much armor. I imagine that image will just get worse with these bodysuits.
We just got a new PC for my mom. She uses it mostly for e-mail and usual business stuff, plus games like CivIII, SimCity 3000, nothing that really needs a lot of horsepower. Our specs were:
XP 2600($94), Abit NF7-S($91), 512MB Ram($92), GeForce4 MX440($39), DVD-RW ($149), plus a LCD monitor and video capture card that pushed the price a bit over $1000. What's suprising though, is that the DVD drive ended up being the most expensive thing to go into the box.
Most people definitely don't need the top of the line models. Even my friend who is a gamer said he is probobly not going to go all-out for the best components. I keep wondering who these people are that keep buying Opterons or Athlon64s.
I just bought a new computer, and AMD's offerings confused the hell out of me. I'm a computer geek, but I'd been tinkering with Linux for a few years, and hadn't paid attention to new hardware. When I looked at new hardware this week, I found AMD had spawned half a dozen chips and at least three sockets. It was bad enough that you had to search for the best Intel CPU/Motherboard set and compare it with the best AMD combo, now you have to see which socket's best price/performance ratio suits you.
While this decision by Intel is for the "Enterprise" market instead of the home market, I really wish AMD would simplify their sockets so that I can at least compare chips without worrying about motherboards, and vice-versa.
I can top that. Hi, I'm your new brother. I'm posting from inside YO MAMA.
I haven't finished reading through the article, but I remember reading about this in one of James Bamford's book about the NSA, "Body of Secrets" or "The Puzzle Palace". Basically, when you bounce a directional radio beam off the moon, it can't be intercepted by anyone except those near the place on Earth where the beam bounces back to. This would allow Navy ships at sea to send a message from the open ocean, to the moon, then to Washington without having the message picked up by the Russians. Pretty neat trick, actually.
The reason this was in Bamford's book was that the USS Liberty, the Navy eavesdropping ship that was attacked by the Israelis in 1967, had this type of system on board and it was its primary method of communicating with the NSA people in the US. Unfortunately, the system was unreliable, and the hydraulics or pnumatics controlling the directional antenna often broke, making it unusable. Partly because of this, the ship never got the message to stay away from the conflict zone and was bombed. That's how I remember it, at least.
Maybe that's the danger of relying too much on bleeding-edge technology.
Anyone here heard of other stories of this technology?
But the other posters are saying it will give you bad night vision! So how will you see the monster on the wing of your plane?!
More on K) Music videos - Just an excuse to list some favorite music videos and directors : )
Try looking for the works of Mark Romanek - he's done a whole bunch of good videos like Nine Inch Nails' "Closer", Beck's "Devil's Haircut", etc. You can actually get all his videos off of his website, go download them and load them into a video editor to study. I don't want to link to his site off of Slashdot because they're big files, but if you're motivated, you can go find it yourself(enter his name into Google) ; )He has done one feature film, "One Hour Photo" with Robin Williams.
Michael Moore has directed some music videos, notably Rage Against the Machine's "Testify" and "Sleep Now In The Fire", plus System of a Down's "BOOM", and a R.E.M. video. Whether you like him or not, he does have a style that might be more approachable, since he tends to use a lot of stock footage edited together instead of filming a lot of scenes specifically. "Testify" is really 'Moore-esqe', it consists of video footage from TV and old movies spliced together with the band to make a satirical political message. It was released in 2000, and contains a pro-Nader message. "Sleep Now I The Fire" is a live 'concert' played in front of the New York Stock Exchange where the police got called and broke it up. Not something an amatuer filmmaker could do, but still funny, especially the stockbrokers rocking out : )
I can think of some other good videos, but don't know their directors - Beck's "Loser", Rammstein's "Ich Will", Beastie Boy's "Sabotage", Alice in Chain's "Jeremy", and Tori Amos' "Rasberry Swirl". Not sure if this helps, but it can't hurt to watch these, and it'll be fun : )
Damn, reading this discussions has been really depressing. Too many people have the attitude that "Well, everyone else should speak English, just like me". The whole point of Orkut is supposedly to allow networking of friends - what's the point, if it's going to force you not to speak your native toungue?
To me, it seems like bad design to begin with. Why can't you filter out posts based on language, if they don't want people to be bothered by other languages? It's something I think they should have thought of when they were designing a "social network" - Google handles multi-language search pretty well, so it's not like they'd never dealt with the issue before.
The fact is, most of the world doesn't speak English, at least among themselves. Why should they use a second or third language to talk to their friends on a "social networking" site? It's perfectly understandable that you should speak English in a thread started in English, but why should you stop people from speaking their native language in their own threads?
Yes, English is the "lingua franca" of the internet, it's very useful when communicating between two people who don't speak the same native language. That doesn't mean you should be forced to speak it with your friends when you'd rather speak another language.
Why, as a matter of fact, they do! Why don't y'all come down here to have a look-see? It's as good as the real thing, Ah swear!
Yeesh, who wants to go over to see some ruins in Greece when you can get all the culture you want down here? We just got our second Wal-Mart, it's quite a sight! I don't know why they even host the olympics in some other country, as if Greece has some olympic prestiege over good 'ol Georgia...
Who cares about some stupid 'classified' data at a nuclear lab? That pales in comparison to this - U2's new album has been stolen! I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Is there no God?!
FYI, the parent poster is reffering to RoboCop :) I love how "Uphold the law" is last on the list...
... The Eighth Law is, if it's your first night here, you have to sing backup for Will Smith."
Too many oppurtunities for parody!
"The First Law of Robotic Fight Club is, you do not talk about Robotic Fight Club! The Second Law of Robotic Fight Club is, you DO NOT talk about Robotic Fight Club!
Bender's Three Laws:
"First Law: Bender may not spill booze, or through inaction, allow booze to be left undrunk.
Second Law: Bender must obey orders given to him by humans, except when he doesn't wanna.
Third Law: Bender must protect his shiny metal ass.
Zeroth Law: Bender must follow all three laws of robotics - with blackjack! And Hookers! Hell, forget the laws and blackjack!"
Hell, those 'o us went to community college in Dixie, can spell 'went', too... But why y'all gettin' werked-up 'bout a little syph-luss? Don't everybody got it over thear, too?
And shucks, 500 pounds ain't nuthin'! This one time, I hacked into the school computah (a commie 64), and I had to pay 700 pounds of hogmeat! You boys in Eng-land got it easy! Try comin' to Oxford, Mississippi fer a REAL edu-cation!
I'm sorry, but Boston Market isn't a restaurant... it's the fabled "Chicken Graveyard" where old, feeble and skinny chickens go to die.
Or maybe that's the city. Who knows.
Just what we need, even *more* conspiratorial rants against moderators and editors. What do you think he would post if he was here? Probobly something like:
"Damn, modded flamebait again! Must be those Jewish moderators, they're all out to get me!"
"I've been trying to post the TRUTH about the Jewish conspiracy behind Microsoft, but the evil Zionist editors won't let me!"
Of course, one more crazy dude probobly would get lost in the noise here... Maybe he's been here all along, trolling instead of playing chess?
I've been thinking about upgrading my local file server(videos and stuff, nothing important) from Red Hat 9 to a more modern distro. Would Slackware be a good choice, or should I go with Fedora? I've heard that Slackware does not have a good update tool like apt or yum. Does Slack have a good GUI configuration interface, or is it all CLI?
I'm not a complete newbie, I've tried Debian, Mandrake, and RH before, so I know my way around Linux. I just don't want to go through the pain of another Debian install, and I'm not sure that Mandrake is robust enough. I'd appreciate any expert advice on this, thanks.
"...you may kiss the bride."
"Hold on, let me compose this shot... good. Now, hold this and press that button when I go up there and kiss."
Unless you have a third hand and eye, you're still going to have to hire a photographer. Remember, unless otherwise stated in a contract, the copyright belongs to the person who takes the photo, not the owner of the equipment.
"I know it's not 'cool' to want to be like your dad, but I really do! All my manipulation and grandstanding in front of congress about that stupid boobie thing is just practice until I can do it just like dad! *sigh* I want to mislead the UN and start a war, too..."
:( "
"Dad is so cool, I sometimes dress up in his old army clothes, they're rad! Oops, if you're reading this, don't tell him that, he'd be mad, might even ground me
"I wish the State Dept. had a 'take your kid to work day', that would be so cool! I bet I could run Afghanistan way better than that guy in the funny hat. I might even get to see Condi, what a hottie! (drool...)"
In all fairness, I'm sure his actual blog is much more boring. He's a bearucrat, he can't say or do anything interesting or original if he wants to keep his job. Personally, I'd rather see the Bush twins' blog. Much more 'interesting' content, and I'm willing to pay for the "Premium content" part! : )
Nah, it'd go something like this, depending on what country did it:
.22 pistol when he accidentally placed it at the back of his skull and shot himself."
Israel: "A local man was found dead this afternoon of an apparent shooting accident. Police speculate that Bruce Simpson was playing with his
CIA: "The U.S. Airforce has promised an inquiry into the recent incident where local resident Bruce Simpson was accidentally bombed in his house and killed. Officials believe the air force may have been ordered to "send Simpson one of thier new cruise missles for review" when a technician misinterpreted the orders and fired at the coordinates instead."
MI6: "A recent high-speed chase involving local police and a Aston-Martin fitted with rockets, machine guns and oil slicks ended in tragedy when Mr. Bruce Simpson of New Zealand was lasered in half by the driver, a man police say was dressed very well and ordered a martini shaken, not stirreed at a local club before going on the rampage."
New Zealand: "The New Zealand intelligence service has admitted to bludgeoning Mr. Bruce Simpson to death with sticks. New Zealanders have expressed shock that their country actually posseses an intelligence service."
(To the tunes of "Happiest days of our lives" and "Another brick in the wall pt. 2" by Pink Floyd)
Well when we grew up and went to work,
There were certain managers,
Who would hurt the Vaxen any way they could.
By pouring their derision,
Upon anything they did,
Driving Digital out of business,
However carefully they made the Vax.
But in the town it was well known,
When they got home at night,
Their fat and psychopathic PCs would thrash them,
Within inches of their lives.
We don't need to reset button
We don't need no windows key
No dark sarcasm on the Slashdot
Manager, leave those Vaxen alone!
Hay, manager, leave those Vaxen alone!
All in all it's just another Vax in the wall
All in all it's just another Troll in the wall
- identity0
Okay, I've heard plenty of 'interesting' things about scientologists, the church of sci, and L. Ron himself, but very little on the book itself apart from the fact that it's a 'self-help' book that a religion was based off of. Can anyone tell me what the book actually says, or point me to a online summary, preferably from a impartial source?
Go right ahead, I'd prefer if you'd either credit me or make a link to the post itself from your page. Oh, and post a link to your linux page here, I'd like to see what you have...
A good geek should know about the ones that came before, and learn from their mistakes and triumphs. Some books on geek history:
In The Beginning Was The Command Line by Neal Stephenson is a good overview of the culture of Linux, Macintosh, Be, and Microsoft in essay form. I've given it to non-computer geeks to teach them about Linux, and why it's different from windows. He talks about how modern society tries to impose a false image over everything to make things easier to deal with(like Disney) and compares that to the GUI vs. CLI differences. I don't agree with everything he says, but Stephenson is definitely a great writer, and he has the book available free at the link I put in.
Hackers by Steven Levy covers important epochs of the hacker culture, from its beginning at MIT to game developers in the 80s. It even has a chapter on Stallman starting GNU! A must-read for any geek.
"Mommy, where do linuxes come from?"
"Well, when a man and a penguin are in love..."
"They kiss?"
"Well that, and they fuck."
"fa-?"
"It's when a man and his penguin get in bed together, and make little baby penguins."
"Wow, I didn't know penguins could do that."
"It's very natural, honey. You just have to make sure you don't catch BSDs."
"Was Red Hat made like that?"
"All the distros were made like this - first Linus had an affair with Tux. Their offspring was named Linux. Then Linux had a child named Yggdrasil, who died very young. In despair Linux joined a cult and had a child with its leader, Pat Volkerding who named their child Slackware. Then Linux became a slut and had children with Bob Young, Ian Murdock, and a whole bunch of other geeks who could never get it on with real women. A whole bunch of kids and grandkids, all of whom go back to Linus and Tux getting drunk together in a Helsinki dorm room."
"Aren't I too young to be hearing this?"
"No one's too young to learn the facts of Linux, honey."
I'm a programmer who knows a couple of languages, but has never taken an advanced CS theory or project management class. I'd like people's opinions on what books to read to make me a better coder and help me understand the broad concepts, not just doing rote stuff in a new language.
Is UML useful? How about books on secure programming? Are design patterns a good tool? Will learning things like assembly or Lisp teach me anything useful?
Stucky? Is that you? Just kidding, you reminded me of a friend who used to live in the basement. The place was a complete dump, but had over $20k of electronics stuff in it(and this was when he was in highschool)...
Anyways, you should look into getting a plug-in flashlight which will plug into a wall socket to recharge, and turn on when the power goes off. I believe they can be found at large hardware stores, and are a lot cheaper than a tritium sign.