Have you even tried the Sarge installer? If you don't tell it to go into specifics at the beginning, it won't. Package config questions during config, however, tend to be semi-sane, especially when installing Gnome/KDE on top of X. It asks you whether you want your desktop manager to go to KDM, GDM, or XDM...a useful question, because sometimes I've found it rather easy to break one of those three, and then need one of the others to get in to a graphical system to do urgent work (which, in my position, just can't be done with the command line.
Bottom line: one.deb installs anywhere. RPMs, on the other hand, may not work on any system but the one that created them.
Um...there's also the use of handwriting to give a likely probablility of the identity of the writer. It's not that accurate, but it can lead to hunches, which are what the intelligence sector has to operate on.
Astrology might be better put to use in weather forecasts, as the positioning of the planets, moon, sun, and other relatively close objects could possibly have an effect on our weather. Besides, predicting the weather isn't that accurate of a science anyway.
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Good point. I'm not entirely certain that I really want News Corp involved with such a project. It doesn't really seem to serve a purpose, as you noted.
I'm only guessing on the content delivery system thing. They could just be giving money to the project, which is a bit more innocous. However, given the fact that it's News Corp, it certainly sounds like they're up to raping and pillaging the Third World.
Mass production of a cheap PC, though, would take several companies: one for a video card, one for the processor, one for the motherboard/sound card, one for the monitor, one to put it all together, and one to distribute. Currently, none of those companies listed has the means to do all of that, but they do make the individual components.
Japan and Korea didn't pull themselves up like you suggest they did. You want to know how they got there? Massive assistance from the Americans during the cleanup from World War II. Same goes with Germany. Their populace didn't work their way up, they got it on a conquering nation that decided to rebuild the countries as allies.
Thailand, however, is hardly worthy of inclusion. They're still incredibly poor there.
Get your head out of your ass. I'd be willing to bet that nobody in your family within two generations has ever done manual labor. How's that working your way up the economic ladder?
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Well, News Corp has a pretty good media distrobution system. The content on that system may be suspect most of the time (okay, so they've had The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, and the early years of The X-Files...but that's it), but the system is sound. Honestly, I'm seeing them providing a default high-speed internet access system for these governments, which is most certainly within their capability.
Just think: it could be Time Warner doing the content work, as they're the only other company out there with a massive media distrobution network. Just what the world needs: a billion more AOLers.
It's a bit more confusing than that, really.
Christians, Jews, Muslims, and a handful of other religions from the area (the Samaritans--they're still around, the Karaites, and the Mandaeans) all worship the same God (the Christians refer to him as God the Father, the Jews as Yahweh, the Muslims as Allah, not sure about the rest).
Christianity in particular makes the monotheistic model a little more complicated with the concept of the Trinity. Basically, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are all one and the same. They coexist simultaneously, and are each individual entities, yet they are all the same being. It's hard to come up with a decent analogy, but it's much like fingers on a hand. Each part of the Trinity is a finger, and God refers to the whole hand. It's crude, but it's the best analogy I can think of at this time.
Speaking as a Christian, the Gospels are hardly evidence. They're the statement of a case. The archaeology surrounding what happened in them (there's a lot of it, not just the Shroud) is the evidence.
That said, I like the Gospels, Acts, and Revelations. It's the Episitles thta I have a massive problem with. There's too much dogma that is too far removed from Jesus' teachings.
However, I am among the paying whiners. Oh well...for one day without LJ entertainment (during which I was out of the house for the most part anyway, and therefore nowhere near a computer), I got two weeks more paid time for free.
They may be on a 6-month release cycle, but they still use the Linux versioning system where x.odd releases are development (use Ubuntu Hoary or Gnoppix 0.9.3b2 if you want to see 2.9 in action) and x.even releases are stable, production releases (the latest of which is still 2.8).
That said, most people aside from the Gnome developers aren't using 2.9 for a variety of very good reasons (the menuing system has massive bugs in it yet).
Er...he can use YPOPs! (available on Sourceforge) to use Thunderbird on Linux. Heck, it's what I do. I can get those same features that he gets from the web-based service through that.
From what it looked like, it took every last bit of 33 minutes to get the FTL engines to restart. The same could have easily been true of the Cylon engines, which would explain everything quite nicely and simply. No needed technobable, nothing complex, just a quirk of the engine.
Space Center Houston is nothing compared to the raw experience that you used to be able to get. However, it's still worth a trip. IMO, though, so is a pilgrimage to Cape Canavaral.
I know that thing...I practically grew up in the shadows of the one at the Johnson Space Center. I've also seen the one that they put indoors at the Kennedy Space Center. Those things are impressive.
That said, I know the dilapadated state that the one in Clear Lake (man, I'm giving away my location: most people don't know that Johnson is in Clear Lake, not Houston) is in, and I can imagine that the one in Huntsville isn't in much better shape. It's rather sad to see this magnificent device that could take three people to the moon and return them safely in such a state.
I mean, I grew up imagining myself in the command module of that thing, on a revived moon mission (granted, they'd probably update some of the computer controls, but the general design philosophy would be exactly what one would need to make the return...wonder if the Chineese have thought about that). I'd love for my kids to be able to do the same thing, assuming that I make the decision to reproduce.
Now, if only they'd re-open most of Johnson Space Center to the public. After Disney took over tourist management, it's really not the same there. I remember the coolness that was Building 2 on that campus. It used to be the visitor's center. I also remember being able to eat in the same cafeteria with the engineers and astronauts training for their next missions, being able to walk into the gallery in building 31A at will except during an hour window during launch, during which it was filled with press (that's Mission Control for those not in the know), and just watching the ground control while they were doing their jobs. It was quite amazing, honestly. As a young child, it fueled my imagination more than what the current setup can do.
The only thing I can think of is Halo...but that's just me. I kinda like the game. Makes me want to tell them to get out of the OS and productvity business and concentrate on being a game company. At least they tend to have decent ideas there, when it comes to story lines.
That, and I'd really love to see a stand-alone copy of their Solitare and Free Cell. For *ix. That would be cool.
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Have you even tried the Sarge installer? If you don't tell it to go into specifics at the beginning, it won't. Package config questions during config, however, tend to be semi-sane, especially when installing Gnome/KDE on top of X. It asks you whether you want your desktop manager to go to KDM, GDM, or XDM...a useful question, because sometimes I've found it rather easy to break one of those three, and then need one of the others to get in to a graphical system to do urgent work (which, in my position, just can't be done with the command line.
.deb installs anywhere. RPMs, on the other hand, may not work on any system but the one that created them.
Bottom line: one
Er...not anymore. Haven't been since that PR disaster that was Ubuntu 4.10 pre-release.
Warty Live CDs won't boot on my desktop, but my installation of Warty went off without a hitch.
Um...there's also the use of handwriting to give a likely probablility of the identity of the writer. It's not that accurate, but it can lead to hunches, which are what the intelligence sector has to operate on.
Astrology might be better put to use in weather forecasts, as the positioning of the planets, moon, sun, and other relatively close objects could possibly have an effect on our weather. Besides, predicting the weather isn't that accurate of a science anyway.
Good point. I'm not entirely certain that I really want News Corp involved with such a project. It doesn't really seem to serve a purpose, as you noted. I'm only guessing on the content delivery system thing. They could just be giving money to the project, which is a bit more innocous. However, given the fact that it's News Corp, it certainly sounds like they're up to raping and pillaging the Third World. Mass production of a cheap PC, though, would take several companies: one for a video card, one for the processor, one for the motherboard/sound card, one for the monitor, one to put it all together, and one to distribute. Currently, none of those companies listed has the means to do all of that, but they do make the individual components.
Better yet: I Love Lucy
Or better still: The Three Stooges
Japan and Korea didn't pull themselves up like you suggest they did. You want to know how they got there? Massive assistance from the Americans during the cleanup from World War II. Same goes with Germany. Their populace didn't work their way up, they got it on a conquering nation that decided to rebuild the countries as allies.
Thailand, however, is hardly worthy of inclusion. They're still incredibly poor there.
Get your head out of your ass. I'd be willing to bet that nobody in your family within two generations has ever done manual labor. How's that working your way up the economic ladder?
Well, News Corp has a pretty good media distrobution system. The content on that system may be suspect most of the time (okay, so they've had The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, and the early years of The X-Files...but that's it), but the system is sound. Honestly, I'm seeing them providing a default high-speed internet access system for these governments, which is most certainly within their capability.
Just think: it could be Time Warner doing the content work, as they're the only other company out there with a massive media distrobution network. Just what the world needs: a billion more AOLers.
It's a bit more confusing than that, really. Christians, Jews, Muslims, and a handful of other religions from the area (the Samaritans--they're still around, the Karaites, and the Mandaeans) all worship the same God (the Christians refer to him as God the Father, the Jews as Yahweh, the Muslims as Allah, not sure about the rest). Christianity in particular makes the monotheistic model a little more complicated with the concept of the Trinity. Basically, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are all one and the same. They coexist simultaneously, and are each individual entities, yet they are all the same being. It's hard to come up with a decent analogy, but it's much like fingers on a hand. Each part of the Trinity is a finger, and God refers to the whole hand. It's crude, but it's the best analogy I can think of at this time.
Speaking as a Christian, the Gospels are hardly evidence. They're the statement of a case. The archaeology surrounding what happened in them (there's a lot of it, not just the Shroud) is the evidence.
That said, I like the Gospels, Acts, and Revelations. It's the Episitles thta I have a massive problem with. There's too much dogma that is too far removed from Jesus' teachings.
/. renders properly 100% of the time in the latest nightly builds. However, those builds cannot handle Wiki-Wiki quite yet.
Oh dear God...the Harry/Draco shippers have invaded Slashdot.
For the record, though, Linus/Bill doesn't have the same snark quality.
Nope. K-Melon is Gecko. KHTML doesn't exist on Winsuck.
However, I am among the paying whiners. Oh well...for one day without LJ entertainment (during which I was out of the house for the most part anyway, and therefore nowhere near a computer), I got two weeks more paid time for free.
Pretty good deal in my book, I'd say.
They may be on a 6-month release cycle, but they still use the Linux versioning system where x.odd releases are development (use Ubuntu Hoary or Gnoppix 0.9.3b2 if you want to see 2.9 in action) and x.even releases are stable, production releases (the latest of which is still 2.8). That said, most people aside from the Gnome developers aren't using 2.9 for a variety of very good reasons (the menuing system has massive bugs in it yet).
Oh? Where is this little box?
Er...he can use YPOPs! (available on Sourceforge) to use Thunderbird on Linux. Heck, it's what I do. I can get those same features that he gets from the web-based service through that.
That said, if he wants a GMail invite...
It's like an HP RPG (with lots of underage wizard sex)...only less erotic.
From what it looked like, it took every last bit of 33 minutes to get the FTL engines to restart. The same could have easily been true of the Cylon engines, which would explain everything quite nicely and simply. No needed technobable, nothing complex, just a quirk of the engine.
It's in the trunk. Mozilla 1.8a has it. Presumably, you could get the latest nightly of Firefox, which is also based on the trunk.
Space Center Houston is nothing compared to the raw experience that you used to be able to get. However, it's still worth a trip. IMO, though, so is a pilgrimage to Cape Canavaral.
I know that thing...I practically grew up in the shadows of the one at the Johnson Space Center. I've also seen the one that they put indoors at the Kennedy Space Center. Those things are impressive.
That said, I know the dilapadated state that the one in Clear Lake (man, I'm giving away my location: most people don't know that Johnson is in Clear Lake, not Houston) is in, and I can imagine that the one in Huntsville isn't in much better shape. It's rather sad to see this magnificent device that could take three people to the moon and return them safely in such a state.
I mean, I grew up imagining myself in the command module of that thing, on a revived moon mission (granted, they'd probably update some of the computer controls, but the general design philosophy would be exactly what one would need to make the return...wonder if the Chineese have thought about that). I'd love for my kids to be able to do the same thing, assuming that I make the decision to reproduce.
Now, if only they'd re-open most of Johnson Space Center to the public. After Disney took over tourist management, it's really not the same there. I remember the coolness that was Building 2 on that campus. It used to be the visitor's center. I also remember being able to eat in the same cafeteria with the engineers and astronauts training for their next missions, being able to walk into the gallery in building 31A at will except during an hour window during launch, during which it was filled with press (that's Mission Control for those not in the know), and just watching the ground control while they were doing their jobs. It was quite amazing, honestly. As a young child, it fueled my imagination more than what the current setup can do.
That's why my next laptop will be a Powerbook.
Well, I like to have a system where things "just work", too. One box for playing, one box for working.
The only thing I can think of is Halo...but that's just me. I kinda like the game. Makes me want to tell them to get out of the OS and productvity business and concentrate on being a game company. At least they tend to have decent ideas there, when it comes to story lines.
That, and I'd really love to see a stand-alone copy of their Solitare and Free Cell. For *ix. That would be cool.