Please don't blab the standard Gentoo fan boy lines at me. I'm a Slackware user currently rolling my own system from scratch. I know low level like it's an annoying cut on the end of my finger.
And you know what? Suprisingly, most people don't want to forced to learn how their computer works. Most people are quite contented to have a magical beige box that periodically brings forth web pages and music.
My Dad couldn't care less that/dev/dsp is now depriciated, and that the 2.6.9n kernels have an interesting typo in a config file somewhere such that the udevs don't work properly, screwing up both man and less. He just wants his computer to work. I want my computer to do as I say, there's a difference there that most people to don't seem to get.
Most computer users couldn't give a rats ass.
But you say that because you're forced to deal with low level details in Gentoo you learn fast, huh? That's not always true. Gentoo abstracts too. I personally know quite a few fan boys that can talk all about how much faster their computer is now that everything has been funrolled, but still couldn't tell me what the hell the difference between kernel and user space are.
Gentoo might be so good for you, but for the vast majority of people it's going to be no good. Just because something fits you doesn't mean it fits someone else.
Well aren't you the least helpful help desk guy ever? Do you think that if the so called "lusers" can't keep viri and spyware off of their Windows boxen they could possibly hope to install Gentoo?
"Hmm... I didn't know anything about my magical beige box before, but now with Gentoo I suddenly know exactly what a partition scheme and compiling are, and I haven't even popped the disk into the music slot on my computer yet!"
Type any word into the address bar, and chances are it'll link to some porn site.
In the interest of Geek Science I decided to conduct a little experiment.
Using the built in search abilities of Firefox I conducted "I Feel Lucky" searches with the Google search engine by typing a mixture of gibberish and common words into my address bar. Here are the results:
Though it is realized that the data set tested compared to the number of word combination in the English language is pitiful, it is the humble opion of this Geek Scientist that you are overgeneralizing a bit.
EDIT: Damnit, I can't type.
Part of securing a priceless artifact is also getting it back if the security guard falls asleep and the thing gets stolen.
The person who stole The Scream should, one would hope, have a very hard time selling it. He's going to have to be insanely discrete. "Let's just say that *wink* my friend has this painting that *wink* he'd be willing to sell you." just won't cut it.
While mueseums might become more secure there are still going to be things stolen. Nothing is 100% secure. If mueseums are going potentially lessen my non-stealing viewing pleasure I'd like to also know how they're planning on re-coordinating with International Law enforcement.
Maybe it's just me, but in my experience over-reacting in one area and not reacting in another is silly, expensive quite often, and futile.
Part of securing a priceless artifact is also getting it back if the security guard falls asleep and the thing gets stolen.
The person who stole The Scream should, one would hope, have a very hard time selling it. He's going to have to be insanely discrete. "Let's just say that *wink* my friend has this painting that *wink* he'd be willing to sell you." just won't cut it.
Maybe it's just me, but in my experience over-reacting in one area and not reacting in another is silly, expensive quite often, and futile.
While mueseums might become more secure there are still going to be things stolen. Nothing is 100% secure. If mueseums are going potentially lessen my non-stealing viewing pleasure I'd like to also know how they're planning on re-coordinating with International Law enforcement.
I don't mean to poop on the story, but is anyone surprised? Those of us that are especially geeky remember how much of a bastard other people were to us in High School, why is this any different?
True, the abuse is now done through electronic means where personal lashback is less likely but jerks will be jerks. This sort of thing is just the threatening phone call for the modern age.
Good story and very interesting, but my reactoin was "Well duh." Anyone else think that?
A bare-chested, twenty-something young man strides into the room, wearing nothing except swimming trunks made of aluminum foil. He presents himself to the Scavenger Hunt judges, posing gingerly. He looks distinctly uncomfortable.
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Gotta love the Wikipedia.
Please don't blab the standard Gentoo fan boy lines at me. I'm a Slackware user currently rolling my own system from scratch. I know low level like it's an annoying cut on the end of my finger.
/dev/dsp is now depriciated, and that the 2.6.9n kernels have an interesting typo in a config file somewhere such that the udevs don't work properly, screwing up both man and less. He just wants his computer to work. I want my computer to do as I say, there's a difference there that most people to don't seem to get.
And you know what? Suprisingly, most people don't want to forced to learn how their computer works. Most people are quite contented to have a magical beige box that periodically brings forth web pages and music.
My Dad couldn't care less that
Most computer users couldn't give a rats ass.
But you say that because you're forced to deal with low level details in Gentoo you learn fast, huh? That's not always true. Gentoo abstracts too. I personally know quite a few fan boys that can talk all about how much faster their computer is now that everything has been funrolled, but still couldn't tell me what the hell the difference between kernel and user space are.
Gentoo might be so good for you, but for the vast majority of people it's going to be no good. Just because something fits you doesn't mean it fits someone else.
Well aren't you the least helpful help desk guy ever? Do you think that if the so called "lusers" can't keep viri and spyware off of their Windows boxen they could possibly hope to install Gentoo?
"Hmm... I didn't know anything about my magical beige box before, but now with Gentoo I suddenly know exactly what a partition scheme and compiling are, and I haven't even popped the disk into the music slot on my computer yet!"
Being a jerk helps nothing.
Using the built in search abilities of Firefox I conducted "I Feel Lucky" searches with the Google search engine by typing a mixture of gibberish and common words into my address bar. Here are the results:
"lksd" returns http://www.lksd.org/
"woish" returns http://peoplesearch.reunion.com/w/woi/woish/
"asdf" returns http://www.asdf.com/
"foo" returns http://www.foofighters.com/
"apple" returns http://www.apple.com/
"ten million monkies" returns http://www.clowder.net/Nico/Monkies.html
and finally
"linux porn" returns http://www.lesbian.mine.nu/ .
Though it is realized that the data set tested compared to the number of word combination in the English language is pitiful, it is the humble opion of this Geek Scientist that you are overgeneralizing a bit.
yes, but will it parse a hobo.
...yes, but will it parse a hobo?
I also can't remember to change the tab to plain HTML.
Today's not the greatest day.
I'm just going to crawl under a rock and starve to death or something.
EDIT: Damnit, I can't type. Part of securing a priceless artifact is also getting it back if the security guard falls asleep and the thing gets stolen. The person who stole The Scream should, one would hope, have a very hard time selling it. He's going to have to be insanely discrete. "Let's just say that *wink* my friend has this painting that *wink* he'd be willing to sell you." just won't cut it. While mueseums might become more secure there are still going to be things stolen. Nothing is 100% secure. If mueseums are going potentially lessen my non-stealing viewing pleasure I'd like to also know how they're planning on re-coordinating with International Law enforcement. Maybe it's just me, but in my experience over-reacting in one area and not reacting in another is silly, expensive quite often, and futile.
Part of securing a priceless artifact is also getting it back if the security guard falls asleep and the thing gets stolen.
The person who stole The Scream should, one would hope, have a very hard time selling it. He's going to have to be insanely discrete. "Let's just say that *wink* my friend has this painting that *wink* he'd be willing to sell you." just won't cut it.
Maybe it's just me, but in my experience over-reacting in one area and not reacting in another is silly, expensive quite often, and futile.
While mueseums might become more secure there are still going to be things stolen. Nothing is 100% secure. If mueseums are going potentially lessen my non-stealing viewing pleasure I'd like to also know how they're planning on re-coordinating with International Law enforcement.
Hopefully this will cut down on vendor lock-in and lure people from using Microsoft Office.
Right, because all those office workers are going to think "Oh God, we're using non-standard XML?!"
Call me a pessimist, but having a non Microsoft standard isn't going to matter much, what with Microsoft being able to make its own standard.
Besides, how many times have you heard office workers say "Oh God, IE doesn't support CSS properly or render transparent PNGs?!"
I don't mean to poop on the story, but is anyone surprised? Those of us that are especially geeky remember how much of a bastard other people were to us in High School, why is this any different?
True, the abuse is now done through electronic means where personal lashback is less likely but jerks will be jerks. This sort of thing is just the threatening phone call for the modern age.
Good story and very interesting, but my reactoin was "Well duh." Anyone else think that?
Perhaps this? I can't find the id number, but that seems like a nice guess.
Was this just random, or what?