after actually/reading/ the article, they have a plan in place to "slow down" the approaching spacecraft...namely another plasma shooter at the other end. I don't know how I feel about that. Maybe if there was a conventional backup solution like thrusters or something...I dunno. Thrusters might slow you down enough to navigate into orbit, but a highspeed orbit would probably be dangerously close to the atmosphere...
I'm going to go ahead and add him to my friends list, just because you're working so hard to discredit him. Any time someone works that hard to discredit someone else, there's got to be SOME reason for it.
It was a half joke, and the half serious side was referring to before Linus released the code on C.O.M. I wasn't serious, I understand that the "guy in the room" was allegorical. Just trying to make friday morning a little more amusing..
Right, my entry was more of a joke and wasn't really to be taken seriously. I knew what the author meant, it was just a (hopefully) comical off the cuff remark.
I was more alluding to the fact that in the very beginning, Linus developed the code by himself. He was the "guy in the room". Then he posted it on C.O.M. but it started with one guy, not a planned group activity.
If you don't want to do anything extravagant (X, games, etc (or even X with FVWM)), then a 486 with 8 megs will do fine. I actually ran it on 4 megs of ram, but that was a LONG time ago (Slack '96)
and I'm beginning to think that only Slack users understand what we mean when we say it "gets out of our way". I've given people that exact line, and they look at me like I'm retarded. They just wouldn't know.
Slackware follows the rule of least astonishment. It works the way it should.
it's another layer of failure. I don't run it on my slack box, and Patrick has more of less eschewed it's use because of the added unnecessary complexity, I believe. If you use it and you like it, then go for it. If you want to use biometric security, use it. If md5 passwords are good enough, then don't worry about it.
Saw dropline on a fellow Lugnut's laptop, and I was highly impressed. Very smooth, slick, and sharp. Of course, I'll let go of Windowmaker when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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depends on how eager you are to have people shooting plasma beams around all willy-nilly.
Thank God for the curvature of the earth...
after actually /reading/ the article, they have a plan in place to "slow down" the approaching spacecraft...namely another plasma shooter at the other end. I don't know how I feel about that. Maybe if there was a conventional backup solution like thrusters or something...I dunno. Thrusters might slow you down enough to navigate into orbit, but a highspeed orbit would probably be dangerously close to the atmosphere...
W.W.K.D
What Would Kirk Do?
Hope they can slow it down when they get there.
/will probably make a small crater...
Your homework is to research what the words "Peak Oil" mean and present a report to the rest of the class.
n .h tml
4 _g lobal_climate3.shtml
Here are your assigned reading materials.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Introductio
http://www.peakoil.org/
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/07200
it can carry a camera easily enough
if you were the IT director, you could say
"I can buy 100 servers with Microsft OSes preinstalled, and a year of support"
or you could say
"I can buy 400 servers, have my IT guys throw linux on them, and we buy a year of support for them from Redhat|SuSE|whoever"
In these days, being smart, looking for feasable solutions, and doing the right thing will qualify you for hero status.
Of course, the same can be said for doing drugs and shooting people, if MTV has anything to say about it.
$108-$35 / share? How many shares??? Like 1,000? damn!
I'm going to go ahead and add him to my friends list, just because you're working so hard to discredit him. Any time someone works that hard to discredit someone else, there's got to be SOME reason for it.
I think I saw an X Files about this...
it didn't end well.
On the other hand, I'd like a miniature pet trilobyte...
Yes, and I bet the first thing that Linus did before writing the first line of code was have a team meeting and draw out some flow charts... /sigh
i keeed i keeed
It was a half joke, and the half serious side was referring to before Linus released the code on C.O.M. I wasn't serious, I understand that the "guy in the room" was allegorical. Just trying to make friday morning a little more amusing..
swing and a miss...
Right, my entry was more of a joke and wasn't really to be taken seriously. I knew what the author meant, it was just a (hopefully) comical off the cuff remark.
I was more alluding to the fact that in the very beginning, Linus developed the code by himself. He was the "guy in the room". Then he posted it on C.O.M. but it started with one guy, not a planned group activity.
kind of like the DJs at amusement parks...crazy
6. Beware of a guy in a room.
Linux was written BY the guy in the room.
That's the whole difference in a nutshell.
definately. Not many of them can still boast that they make a 486 a usable machine*
:-)
* - may have to recompile default kernel
actually, it was around december :-/ and the Wallstreet had more wrong with it than our relationship (Ba-ZING)
If you don't want to do anything extravagant (X, games, etc (or even X with FVWM)), then a 486 with 8 megs will do fine. I actually ran it on 4 megs of ram, but that was a LONG time ago (Slack '96)
and I'm beginning to think that only Slack users understand what we mean when we say it "gets out of our way". I've given people that exact line, and they look at me like I'm retarded. They just wouldn't know.
Slackware follows the rule of least astonishment. It works the way it should.
I'm with you. Ya just haven't lived till you've entered modelines by hand, I tell ya.
Kids today, what with their XVGA setup programs, and their live CDs.
GET OUT OF MY YARD
I bow in respect. Some day I hope to find the nirvana that you have reached.
My last techie girlfriend owned a Wallstreet model Powerbook *shudder*
It would be interesting to see if they had a return policy and the DVD could be reused or recycled. Like a return on a coke bottle or something
it's another layer of failure. I don't run it on my slack box, and Patrick has more of less eschewed it's use because of the added unnecessary complexity, I believe. If you use it and you like it, then go for it. If you want to use biometric security, use it. If md5 passwords are good enough, then don't worry about it.
Saw dropline on a fellow Lugnut's laptop, and I was highly impressed. Very smooth, slick, and sharp. Of course, I'll let go of Windowmaker when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.