Not only that but your death should be your greatest friend. Something I learned from reading Carlos Castenadas Don Juan books as a kid.
Envisage your death as something sitting on your shoulder constantly whispering into your ear reminding you of your mortality. Weigh everything else against it to see what really matters in your life.
Total jerk of a boss ? shitty job you need for the time being ? Crappy relationship ? Can't get laid ? Nagging toothace ? Not earning what you want ? etc. etc.
Pah ! These are mere "petty tyrants". They are nothing compared to your impending death. Sitting about doing nothing ? Always putting things off ? Listen to your death telling you to get off your arse and get what you want to do done NOW.
Acceptance of, and constant awareness (not to be confused with morbid fixation !), of my own personal death has been just about the best motivator I've ever had.
It's just a shame that I never managed to turn myself into a crow:)
My first thought was to randomly shout loudly whilst walking near these things. Cue confused "operator" wondering why he's been alerted to watch a fat middle aged oaf peacably walking down the street.
On another in my locality the local council spent several hundred thousand pounds on one of these stupid CCTV systems. However they didn't budget for paying someone to watch the bloody things thinking this would be done by "community volunteers".
Needless to say there have been very, very few volunteers (which in itself is quite suprising) and the whole thing is simply a collosal waste of money. Needless to say local residents are not impressed and will be electing those responsible out of office.
> Even though I'm just a fifteen minute commute from work, I spend nearly fifty dollars a week getting there and back.
I used to have a 15 (ish) minute motorbike journey to/from work. About two years ago I went back to doing the same journey by bicycle which takes me between 30 and 35 minutes (depends on the wind). I'm now fitter, healthier and I'd guess it costs me about 50p a week (replacement tyres, inner tubes, brake blocks etc.)
If you're only travelling 15 minutes I'd say it's not worth using a powered vechile unless you're infirm, very old, disabled, need to carry lots of tools/equipment etc. etc. (or the journey involves meeting hazardous animals such as elaphants/crocodiles/bears:)
> why are natural things like nudity, sex, and sexual intercourse considered obscene to begin with?
Because the sex instinct is one of the most powerful forces at work in an individuals psyche. Control that and you can (to a large degree) control the individual.
Why do you think we have societies which encourage widespread sexual repression but which advertise most goods with unsubtle hints about how their possession will get you more sex ?
Why do you think that the people who make the most fuss about nudity, sex, other people enjoying themselves etc. always seem to turn out to have the strangest personal fetishes etc. etc. ?
If people were getting more sex they wouldn't be so tensed up, they wouldn't be so paranoid/obsessed with what other people are doing (i.e. how much sex they're getting), they wouldn't buy so much unnecessary crap and we'd generally have a happier human population.
"The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell."
And when the dust settles, the dead have been buried and the lucrative rebuilding contracts have started to be parcelled out...
The amount of power held by the corrupt old bastards who rule the show has shifted slightly with Dictator X losing slightly, Dictator Y making a small gain and Dictator Z having been rubbed out. Now back to business as usual.
> I can't download and keep my extensions for future install.
You can indeed do that. When getting an extension right click on the "Add To Firefox" button, save the.xpi file somewhere on your local machine/network then drag and drop the.xpi onto Firefox to install.
I usually save extensions onto a network share and then "drag and drop" install onto whichever box I'm currently using (i.e. Linux box, Windows box) etc.
I just don't watch TV to any great extent. If I do then when the ads come on I either mute the volume, switch channels or lose interest, go off and do something else.
I am simply not going to sit there for 5 minutes listening to inane jingles advertising tampons, crap loans, household cleaning products and cars.
When I (rarely) watch a DVD then they've either been ad stripped by the uploader:) or I strip the ads myself before I watch it. And now that pressed DVDs come with "non skippable" ads (yeah right) I've mostly stopped buying them.
If I'm interested in buying something I go to great lengths to find out about the available products before I make an informed choice as to what I want to buy.
Whilst it is undoubtedly important (someties vitally so) "Undelete" is the wrong answer to the wrong problem.
What we need are file systems that allow multiple versions of files. Whenenver a files contents is altered (e.g. by an editor) the output should be to a new version of the which has the same logical name but which has an implicit higher generation number. The generation number being another file attribute which is held at the directory level.
So for instance I should be able to keep multiple generations of, let's say "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (yeah I have loads of problems with that) without have to resort to manually adding sufffixes to files such as "/etc/X11/xorg.conf-2008-01-01", "/etc/X11/xorg.conf-2008-01-02" etc. etc.
By using this scheme then editing xorg.conf would results in two files which would show up from, say the output of "ls" as follows:/etc/X11/xorg.conf(2)/etc/X11/xorg.conf(1)
n.b. The bracketed generation number whon at the end of the file name is not part of the name, it is only displayed when using "ls etc." By default you'd just use commands such as "nano/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and, if 2 were the highest generation, you'd start editing generation 2. If you wanted to you could obviously do "nano/etc/X11/xorg.conf(1)". Both of these edits would result in generation 3 of the file being created.
We've had this sort of file system in VME (Virtual Machine Environment) mainframes since the 1970s and quite frankly I find using *NIX and WINDOWS file systems to be utterly primitive and archaic.
The whole "only one generation of a file at any one time" paradigm is ludicrous and needs replacing with a better model. Undelete is simply an, admittedly very useful, but poor "hack".
Just my periodic "primitive PC file systems" rant:)
I prefer UKFSN myself. Very open pricing structures, actually a resold Entanet product (hence reliable) and according to their website "Remember all profits from UKFSN go to fund UK Free Software projects.".
Been with them for over a year now, zero problems, zero downtime. The only thing I've not checked up on is which free software projects they're supporting but I've got no reason to doubt that they are.
The putty default colours can be changed too (via Window > colours) it's just a bit of a bugger as you have to do stuff in the right order or your colours don't get saved.
Sadly I can't remember the order to do things (haven't got Putty or install permissions this week) but I've got it green on black too. I think the gist of it is that you have to set the colours up when you initially set up the profile and before you use it. No doubt there's a config file somewhere too but I've never looked (lazy I know)
But you can't beat green on black. I find it far more readable than anything else.
Sorry. Linux is most certainly not "ready for you now".
There is absolutely nothing on Linux that has fully integrated audio and MIDI sequencing with full professional capabilities and (crucially) that works in such a synergistic whole as, say Cubase or Reaper on Windows or Logic on Apple.
Not to mention the fact that there is not full easy to use, support for Steinbergs Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plugins (i.e. run installer, use VST).
I know as I'm almost desperate to move off my aging Windows setup (Emagic Logic 5.5.1 - no longer supported) However this lets me get my work done so I'm sticking with it until something under Linux will do the job. Having had the rug pulled under me by Apple/Emagic I will not be giving those bastards any more of my hard earned cash.
As an aside having the rug pulled two months weeks after I'd just handed over a good deal of money for an upgrade is the main reason that I'll never again pay for software that isn't open source. No source code included ? No sale.
Now Ardour is a splendid audio workstation but until it gets full MIDI support, including the ability to run all VSTs, it still doesn't compete with my old copy of Logic Audio. And things like Rosegarden, Muse, Anthem etc. are good efforts but they all feel a bit "80s" in their feature sets.
Don't think I'm knocking the efforts of the developers (after all if I could do any better I would) as eventually I expect the apps will get there. I'm just not hopeful it'll be any time soon.
Until that time I'm afraid it does a disservice to Linux to say that it's "ready for you now". This just leads people to try it get dissapointed and go elsewhere - never to return.
Audio only work it's possibly o.k. (as long as you don't need any unsupported VSTs). MIDI only is o.k. But as soon as you want to integrate the two the amount of configuration necessary means that, for the vast majority of audio professionals, the effort isn't worth it. After all on Windows/Apple you just install a coupe of programs, RTFM and you're off. In Linux it's all RTFM and no play...
I gave up contributing to Wikipedia as my early articles were all deleted.
I'd started writing up a history of our local music scene so naturally I started at the beginning with a couple of obscure bands. Of course some of these people went on to achieve worldwide acclaim (a couple as actors) and I would have chronicled the whole thing.
Sadly the first four articles I wrote were deleted the next day as they were apparently not "noteworthy". Guess this folk knowledge will have to remain in the surviving copies of fading fanzines.
Never contributed anything since, never will again.
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Not only that but your death should be your greatest friend. Something I learned from reading Carlos Castenadas Don Juan books as a kid.
Envisage your death as something sitting on your shoulder constantly whispering into your ear reminding you of your mortality. Weigh everything else against it to see what really matters in your life.
Total jerk of a boss ? shitty job you need for the time being ? Crappy relationship ? Can't get laid ? Nagging toothace ? Not earning what you want ? etc. etc.
Pah ! These are mere "petty tyrants". They are nothing compared to your impending death. Sitting about doing nothing ? Always putting things off ? Listen to your death telling you to get off your arse and get what you want to do done NOW.
Acceptance of, and constant awareness (not to be confused with morbid fixation !), of my own personal death has been just about the best motivator I've ever had.
It's just a shame that I never managed to turn myself into a crow :)
My first thought was to randomly shout loudly whilst walking near these things. Cue confused "operator" wondering why he's been alerted to watch a fat middle aged oaf peacably walking down the street.
On another in my locality the local council spent several hundred thousand pounds on one of these stupid CCTV systems. However they didn't budget for paying someone to watch the bloody things thinking this would be done by "community volunteers".
Needless to say there have been very, very few volunteers (which in itself is quite suprising) and the whole thing is simply a collosal waste of money. Needless to say local residents are not impressed and will be electing those responsible out of office.
If only more people would would for *ANYTHING* other than the red or blue parties. Just pick one of the other candidates at random and vote for them.
Why we might get some form of government where there was actual debate and they were actually accountable.
And I speak as a UK serf - we too have the usual tired "a red and a blue" two party system.
> troll for pirates,
Surely you mean copyright infringers ?
Oh wait... wrong post...
> Even though I'm just a fifteen minute commute from work, I spend nearly fifty dollars a week getting there and back.
I used to have a 15 (ish) minute motorbike journey to/from work. About two years ago I went back to doing the same journey by bicycle which takes me between 30 and 35 minutes (depends on the wind). I'm now fitter, healthier and I'd guess it costs me about 50p a week (replacement tyres, inner tubes, brake blocks etc.)
If you're only travelling 15 minutes I'd say it's not worth using a powered vechile unless you're infirm, very old, disabled, need to carry lots of tools/equipment etc. etc. (or the journey involves meeting hazardous animals such as elaphants/crocodiles/bears :)
> 4. You compromise the user's PC, patching the web-browser to accept bogus credentials. In this case the user is at fault
I think point 4 should really read:
"4. You compromise the user's PC, patching the web-browser to accept bogus credentials. In this case the *users operating system* is at fault."
> why are natural things like nudity, sex, and sexual intercourse considered obscene to begin with?
Because the sex instinct is one of the most powerful forces at work in an individuals psyche. Control that and you can (to a large degree) control the individual.
Why do you think we have societies which encourage widespread sexual repression but which advertise most goods with unsubtle hints about how their possession will get you more sex ?
Why do you think that the people who make the most fuss about nudity, sex, other people enjoying themselves etc. always seem to turn out to have the strangest personal fetishes etc. etc. ?
If people were getting more sex they wouldn't be so tensed up, they wouldn't be so paranoid/obsessed with what other people are doing (i.e. how much sex they're getting), they wouldn't buy so much unnecessary crap and we'd generally have a happier human population.
"The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell."
And when the dust settles, the dead have been buried and the lucrative rebuilding contracts have started to be parcelled out...
The amount of power held by the corrupt old bastards who rule the show has shifted slightly with Dictator X losing slightly, Dictator Y making a small gain and Dictator Z having been rubbed out. Now back to business as usual.
Like "Bob" says. "war is heck".
> And ruled that only insects should be called bugs, and not arachnids.
They're not bugs, they're features.
Not to mention the fact that Glasgow's already got a religious war...
:)
It's called "Celtic vs Rangers"
> I can't download and keep my extensions for future install.
.xpi file somewhere on your local machine/network then drag and drop the .xpi onto Firefox to install.
You can indeed do that. When getting an extension right click on the "Add To Firefox" button, save the
I usually save extensions onto a network share and then "drag and drop" install onto whichever box I'm currently using (i.e. Linux box, Windows box) etc.
As a UK "citizen" I totally agree with you. England has sleepwalked into something akin to post war East Germany.
"Oh but stop moaning, there are twelve kinds of butter in the supermarket".
Pah, Viz comics bottom inspectors are looking more like prophecy every day !
If you're (very) drunk in an English pub (that you're not a frequent visitor to) you probably won't get served as you've "had enough".
:)
Yet a "fattie" can go to their local supermarket and buy as much lard based products as they like.
Clearly the UK government are missing a chance to "harmonise" consumption laws
Why yes, I have been drinking the Devils Advocaat this evening...
> Maybe, but spaces in file/directory names are an abomination
:)
Surely you mean shells & file systems that can't cope with spaces in a path are antiquated abominations ?
n.b. obviously the path names need delimiting with " or ' characters !
I just don't watch TV to any great extent. If I do then when the ads come on I either mute the volume, switch channels or lose interest, go off and do something else.
:) or I strip the ads myself before I watch it. And now that pressed DVDs come with "non skippable" ads (yeah right) I've mostly stopped buying them.
I am simply not going to sit there for 5 minutes listening to inane jingles advertising tampons, crap loans, household cleaning products and cars.
When I (rarely) watch a DVD then they've either been ad stripped by the uploader
If I'm interested in buying something I go to great lengths to find out about the available products before I make an informed choice as to what I want to buy.
Sorry I'm just not interested in advertising.
As a UK citizen (sorry serf) let me say I am outraged, simply outraged.
How on Earth are we supposed to play "poo hockey" if they're going to crack down on the innocent puck makers ?
There's nothing better than a drunken game of "poo hockey" after the pubs have shut.
That company name looks more like "teh Zuxxerz" to me... or something...
Yeah, I'll get mi coat.
Whilst it is undoubtedly important (someties vitally so) "Undelete" is the wrong answer to the wrong problem.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf(2) /etc/X11/xorg.conf(1)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and, if 2 were the highest generation, you'd start editing generation 2. If you wanted to you could obviously do "nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf(1)". Both of these edits would result in generation 3 of the file being created.
:)
What we need are file systems that allow multiple versions of files. Whenenver a files contents is altered (e.g. by an editor) the output should be to a new version of the which has the same logical name but which has an implicit higher generation number. The generation number being another file attribute which is held at the directory level.
So for instance I should be able to keep multiple generations of, let's say "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (yeah I have loads of problems with that) without have to resort to manually adding sufffixes to files such as "/etc/X11/xorg.conf-2008-01-01", "/etc/X11/xorg.conf-2008-01-02" etc. etc.
By using this scheme then editing xorg.conf would results in two files which would show up from, say the output of "ls" as follows:
n.b. The bracketed generation number whon at the end of the file name is not part of the name, it is only displayed when using "ls etc." By default you'd just use commands such as "nano
We've had this sort of file system in VME (Virtual Machine Environment) mainframes since the 1970s and quite frankly I find using *NIX and WINDOWS file systems to be utterly primitive and archaic.
The whole "only one generation of a file at any one time" paradigm is ludicrous and needs replacing with a better model. Undelete is simply an, admittedly very useful, but poor "hack".
Just my periodic "primitive PC file systems" rant
I prefer UKFSN myself. Very open pricing structures, actually a resold Entanet product (hence reliable) and according to their website "Remember all profits from UKFSN go to fund UK Free Software projects.".
Been with them for over a year now, zero problems, zero downtime. The only thing I've not checked up on is which free software projects they're supporting but I've got no reason to doubt that they are.
I too am a green on black fan.
The putty default colours can be changed too (via Window > colours) it's just a bit of a bugger as you have to do stuff in the right order or your colours don't get saved.
Sadly I can't remember the order to do things (haven't got Putty or install permissions this week) but I've got it green on black too. I think the gist of it is that you have to set the colours up when you initially set up the profile and before you use it. No doubt there's a config file somewhere too but I've never looked (lazy I know)
But you can't beat green on black. I find it far more readable than anything else.
Sorry. Linux is most certainly not "ready for you now".
There is absolutely nothing on Linux that has fully integrated audio and MIDI sequencing with full professional capabilities and (crucially) that works in such a synergistic whole as, say Cubase or Reaper on Windows or Logic on Apple.
Not to mention the fact that there is not full easy to use, support for Steinbergs Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plugins (i.e. run installer, use VST).
I know as I'm almost desperate to move off my aging Windows setup (Emagic Logic 5.5.1 - no longer supported) However this lets me get my work done so I'm sticking with it until something under Linux will do the job. Having had the rug pulled under me by Apple/Emagic I will not be giving those bastards any more of my hard earned cash.
As an aside having the rug pulled two months weeks after I'd just handed over a good deal of money for an upgrade is the main reason that I'll never again pay for software that isn't open source. No source code included ? No sale.
Now Ardour is a splendid audio workstation but until it gets full MIDI support, including the ability to run all VSTs, it still doesn't compete with my old copy of Logic Audio. And things like Rosegarden, Muse, Anthem etc. are good efforts but they all feel a bit "80s" in their feature sets.
Don't think I'm knocking the efforts of the developers (after all if I could do any better I would) as eventually I expect the apps will get there. I'm just not hopeful it'll be any time soon.
Until that time I'm afraid it does a disservice to Linux to say that it's "ready for you now". This just leads people to try it get dissapointed and go elsewhere - never to return.
Audio only work it's possibly o.k. (as long as you don't need any unsupported VSTs). MIDI only is o.k. But as soon as you want to integrate the two the amount of configuration necessary means that, for the vast majority of audio professionals, the effort isn't worth it. After all on Windows/Apple you just install a coupe of programs, RTFM and you're off. In Linux it's all RTFM and no play...
> Who would buy a used 256 MB flash drive?
Depends on the price. If they were 1p I'd buy 100 of 'em. 256 Mb is still a useful amount of storage (plain text, html, mp3 etc. etc.).
If it's got any commercials whatsoever I'm simply not paying for it.
You can either have advertising sponsored TV or pay TV. Not both.
See the old proverb regarding having cake and eating it.
I gave up contributing to Wikipedia as my early articles were all deleted.
I'd started writing up a history of our local music scene so naturally I started at the beginning with a couple of obscure bands. Of course some of these people went on to achieve worldwide acclaim (a couple as actors) and I would have chronicled the whole thing.
Sadly the first four articles I wrote were deleted the next day as they were apparently not "noteworthy". Guess this folk knowledge will have to remain in the surviving copies of fading fanzines.
Never contributed anything since, never will again.
Nooooooooooo !
She's clearly wearing a merkin !
egad !