Let me reword my question. If I install Linux (whichever distribution) and then go to/usr/src/linux and type in "make", will the resulting vmlinux (or vmlinuz) be identical to the kernel that I'm running right now? I don't think so. It will be different. My network adapter probably won't be recognized because it's not the "default". --
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I am very much opposed to allowing HTML messages. I don't like HTML email, and I certainly hate HTML newsgroup posts. Heck, even MIME is used way too often. --
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because we know that the credit card company is giving us the card in exchange for a nice interest rate
I buy as much as possible with my credit card, because the CC company gives me frequent flyer miles for every purchase. Because of that, I only have to pay for half the flights I take every year. And since I pay my bill in full every month, the interest rate is irrelevant. Plus, I make more interest on my money, because it can be up to 7 weeks before I actually have to pay for the item I bought (if I buy something on the 1st of the month, the CC bill for that purchase won't be paid until the 3rd week of the following month). I'm also better protected if an item I purchase is defective. On top of that, since I don't carry a lot of cash, I don't pay as many ATM fees for withdrawing cash, and if I ever get mugged, I won't have as much cash to lose. --
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Config file - you mean.config? Tell me, when I do a stock installation of Red Hat Linux, where is the.config file that represents my system? --
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Re:Who would've thought?
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I have to admit, this is not the method of the IT industry's acceptance of Linux I had in mind.
We OS/2 users welcome you to the club! --
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Re:Difference between "adjusted" and "reported"?
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In many companies, unvested options can still be purchased by employees. The difference is that if the employee quits, the company has the right (and often does) to buy back the unvested options. --
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You may be a very competent programmer now, but if you were to learn assembly language, you'd be an even better programmer.
I don't think assembly should be taught first, because it's just too difficult. I think it should be taught to sophomores. And it should definitely be a requirement for any Computer Science or Computer Enginnering major. --
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People have been complaining about these problems on the TiVo forums (which TiVo employees monitor) for many months. There are dozens of threads with hundreds of messages talking about this stuff. In all that time, no one from TiVo has ever really addressed the issue, certainly not to say anything like, "we made a mistake."
One day after Slashdot mentions it, we get an official response with the phrase, "we never had any intention of trying to
diminish the value of an existing box without the TiVo service, or of annoying those of you who use the
box this way in order to push you into becoming paying subscribers." WTF!?!?! This is totally new information. Every TiVo user on the forum was under the impression that TiVo did not care about non-subscribers, since these people actually cost TiVo money.
The whole "official response" is fully of language that completely contradicts every earlier post in the forum. Granted, almost all of those posts were from people who are not TiVo employees, but it's still amazing.
What upsets me (and probably every other forum reader) the most is that it took so long from this information to come out. This official response should have come out six months ago. --
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If you add $250 to your budget, you'll have a lifetime subscription and all of these issues will be moot.
TiVo generally has more features and is easier to use than Replay. If you browse the user forums for both devices, you'll see that Replay users ask for new features and changes much more than TiVo users do.
I bought a 60-hour TiVo from Phillips, and although I did spend a lot ($750 including subscription), the device is amazing. The software works great, it has lots of features (2.0 is way better than 1.3 in my opinion), and it's totally changed the way I watch TV (for the better, obviously). --
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I used to have serious back pain problems. They all went away by doing the following:
sleeping only on my back, not on my stomach. Sleeping on your stomach causes your spine to bend backwards, which is really bad. Sleeping on the side isn't any better, but I never did that anyway.
taking calcium suppliments. This is also good for minor joint and muscle pains.
exercising. I recommend a Bowflex. It's expensive, but it's the only exercise machine I've liked.
Assuming your problems are like mine, you should see improvement in about a month. --
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Every notice how much effort TV producers go through to hide brand-name products during the shows? How many times have you watched a TV show about teenagers, and never see any of them drink a Coke or a Pepsi? It's unrealistic. Almost all teenagers drink soft drinks, so why not make it part of the show?
Besides, this kind of advertising is limited to consumer products. Of course, this wouldn't be an issue if advertisers would make ads that people actually wanted to watch. --
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What are you talking about? Isn't this what packages are for? Is it really that hard to type "dpkg -i foo.deb" (or whatever
the rpm equivalent is)? Or use a GUI frontend that does the equivalent?
Unfortunately, not every package adds icons to the desktop and/or "start menu". What good is it to install the app if you don't also get an icon to launch it? --
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Isn't it the kids' right to prefer a good and tasty steak over a nice physical appearance?
No, it isn't. Parents are responsible for the well-being of their children, so the parents dictate what the children can and cannot eat. If the parents say that the children should eat healthy (and any parent who doesn't is unfit to be a parent), then the children should eat healthy.
Ok, so kids will now go to the Mac Donalds next door rather than eating at the canteen, and this system will have
achieved the exact opposite from what was intended.
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Shouldn't they explain to the kid:"hey, don't do this"
Of course, but so what? You're making that assumption that just because a parent has told his child what to do (or not), that the child will listen. How absurd!!! For all you know, the parent could have been trying to get his kid to stop eating ice cream for months now, but the kid just doesn't care and does it anyway.
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And does clicking on the.rpm also create an icon on the desktop or a menu item? It doesn't do any good to install an application via a GUI if you have to dig your way through the command-line in order to launch it!
It's completely stupid! Yes, I know the problem is that there are a dozen different desktop managers, and they each have their own API. So why doesn't somecreate a generic API that lets you create icons, etc on the whatever desktop you happen to be running? I've installed dozens of apps via RPM, and I had to make icons for all of them. Not only that, but I've had to dig up icons to use. --
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Friday night is our big TV night. Well, I guess it was until just recently. We used to have: The Fugitive, Stargate SG-1, Outer Limits, Farscape, and Invisible Man. Some of these shows have moved around, but there's still plenty to watch.
Besides, schedules mean nothing to me, now that I have a TiVo. I highly recommend you get one. --
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Apparently I hold the minority opinion here, but my wife and I really liked The Lone Gunman (I'm a geek, she's not, but she likes geek humor). I don't remember the premier too well, but I don't recall thinking it sucked. It certainly was good enough for me to want to watch more.
For me, the X-Files is the only show on Fox worth watching. I hate TV shows about "dumb, average people", so I can't stand Simpsons, Family Guy, etc. --
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Let me reword my question. If I install Linux (whichever distribution) and then go to /usr/src/linux and type in "make", will the resulting vmlinux (or vmlinuz) be identical to the kernel that I'm running right now? I don't think so. It will be different. My network adapter probably won't be recognized because it's not the "default".
--
Lord Nimon
I am very much opposed to allowing HTML messages. I don't like HTML email, and I certainly hate HTML newsgroup posts. Heck, even MIME is used way too often.
--
Lord Nimon
I buy as much as possible with my credit card, because the CC company gives me frequent flyer miles for every purchase. Because of that, I only have to pay for half the flights I take every year. And since I pay my bill in full every month, the interest rate is irrelevant. Plus, I make more interest on my money, because it can be up to 7 weeks before I actually have to pay for the item I bought (if I buy something on the 1st of the month, the CC bill for that purchase won't be paid until the 3rd week of the following month). I'm also better protected if an item I purchase is defective. On top of that, since I don't carry a lot of cash, I don't pay as many ATM fees for withdrawing cash, and if I ever get mugged, I won't have as much cash to lose.
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Config file - you mean .config? Tell me, when I do a stock installation of Red Hat Linux, where is the .config file that represents my system?
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We OS/2 users welcome you to the club!
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In many companies, unvested options can still be purchased by employees. The difference is that if the employee quits, the company has the right (and often does) to buy back the unvested options.
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Have you tried holding the reset button for 5-10 seconds? Most motherboards have hardware designed to detect that as a hard reset.
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I don't think assembly should be taught first, because it's just too difficult. I think it should be taught to sophomores. And it should definitely be a requirement for any Computer Science or Computer Enginnering major.
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Although I have no problem with menstruation, I have to say that that was too much information.
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One day after Slashdot mentions it, we get an official response with the phrase, "we never had any intention of trying to diminish the value of an existing box without the TiVo service, or of annoying those of you who use the box this way in order to push you into becoming paying subscribers." WTF!?!?! This is totally new information. Every TiVo user on the forum was under the impression that TiVo did not care about non-subscribers, since these people actually cost TiVo money.
The whole "official response" is fully of language that completely contradicts every earlier post in the forum. Granted, almost all of those posts were from people who are not TiVo employees, but it's still amazing.
What upsets me (and probably every other forum reader) the most is that it took so long from this information to come out. This official response should have come out six months ago.
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- If you add $250 to your budget, you'll have a lifetime subscription and all of these issues will be moot.
- TiVo generally has more features and is easier to use than Replay. If you browse the user forums for both devices, you'll see that Replay users ask for new features and changes much more than TiVo users do.
I bought a 60-hour TiVo from Phillips, and although I did spend a lot ($750 including subscription), the device is amazing. The software works great, it has lots of features (2.0 is way better than 1.3 in my opinion), and it's totally changed the way I watch TV (for the better, obviously).--
Lord Nimon
Gilette no longer does animal testing.
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Nice idea, but there's already some legal precedence (either some law or some prior legal ruling) that makes this illegal.
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- sleeping only on my back, not on my stomach. Sleeping on your stomach causes your spine to bend backwards, which is really bad. Sleeping on the side isn't any better, but I never did that anyway.
- taking calcium suppliments. This is also good for minor joint and muscle pains.
- exercising. I recommend a Bowflex. It's expensive, but it's the only exercise machine I've liked.
Assuming your problems are like mine, you should see improvement in about a month.--
Lord Nimon
Besides, this kind of advertising is limited to consumer products. Of course, this wouldn't be an issue if advertisers would make ads that people actually wanted to watch.
--
Lord Nimon
Unfortunately, not every package adds icons to the desktop and/or "start menu". What good is it to install the app if you don't also get an icon to launch it?
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Lord Nimon
No, it isn't. Parents are responsible for the well-being of their children, so the parents dictate what the children can and cannot eat. If the parents say that the children should eat healthy (and any parent who doesn't is unfit to be a parent), then the children should eat healthy.
Ok, so kids will now go to the Mac Donalds next door rather than eating at the canteen, and this system will have achieved the exact opposite from what was intended.
Not at all. The parents will know that the children are not eating at school, and can take appropriate action (i.e. punishment).
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Of course, but so what? You're making that assumption that just because a parent has told his child what to do (or not), that the child will listen. How absurd!!! For all you know, the parent could have been trying to get his kid to stop eating ice cream for months now, but the kid just doesn't care and does it anyway.
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It's completely stupid! Yes, I know the problem is that there are a dozen different desktop managers, and they each have their own API. So why doesn't somecreate a generic API that lets you create icons, etc on the whatever desktop you happen to be running? I've installed dozens of apps via RPM, and I had to make icons for all of them. Not only that, but I've had to dig up icons to use.
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Surely, you're not talking about Fern Britton?
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On a similar note, there's a TiVo banner ad on the top of the page that I've never seen before. Coincidence? I think not.
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Besides, schedules mean nothing to me, now that I have a TiVo. I highly recommend you get one.
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You need to travel around the USA some more. The people on these shows outnumber people like us in real life by a factor of 10-to-1.
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For me, the X-Files is the only show on Fox worth watching. I hate TV shows about "dumb, average people", so I can't stand Simpsons, Family Guy, etc.
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