Quagmire's mom: (shouting off-screen): Glenn, would you feed mittens?
Quagmire: Mittens has food in his bowl!
Quagmires' mom: That's old food!
(cat meows)
Quagmire: Mittens, shut up! Mittens shut up!
Quagmire's Mom: Don't you talk to Mittens that way. Mittens is a member of this family.
Quagmire: Mom if you want this three-way to happen, you're gonna have to change your tone.
um... it could be much bigger and sinister, what about corrupt people in power planting evidence on an opponents computer or anyone else they want to get rid of...
since i do not make my living requiring an internet connection when the internet begins to cost more than what i deem reasonable i will gladly cancel my internet connection and use my computer for strictly offline use, (digital file cabinet?, accounting/checkbook balancing?) print documents?) computers are still usefull even without an internet connection, and with a small LAN i can write my own web pages and just make my own intranet:)
lets see - by their analogy i must buy a new car to drive to work, but i have to buy second new car to drive to the grocery store, and a third new car to drive out of town to visit relatives, and a fouth new car to drive to sporting events and concerts, or must i buy a fifth new car for concerts?, i must check with the RIAA automobile club
i have seen some shell scripts in my SeaMonkey's Cache directory, i am not sure what they did so i made a shell script to delete the cache files automatically...
it may be nothing but on the otherhand it may be an Evil shell script, next time i find one i will examine it closer...
i switched to Linux from Windows when i got tired of the crashes & BSODs, malware & the usual kludge that windows tends to have, of all the distros i tryed i stuck with slackware, it seems the most stable and smoothest running, from what i read around the internet is that slackware is the most similar to unix (bsd) of all the linux distros, someday when Patrick Volkerding retires from keeping slackware developed i will probably switch to either OpenBSD or PC-BSD
if you format and re-install after every vulnerability that gets posted in the media you will wear out your PC just re-installing that --MS-Win-kludge, i suggest you learn to live without MS-Windows and give GNU/Linux or FreeBSD a spin, and actually take the time to learn it and not give up after half a day...
RE:[Most online activities, like standard websurfing, are not significantly sped up by high-bandwidth connections, and the few that are, such as downloading, are not typically time-sensitive anyway.]
no? when broadband means a hell of a lot of difference when downloading two to five 700 meg ISOs of the latest release of your favorite Linux Distro? try that on a 56k dialup...
i seen a lot of difference in websurfing too when i switched from a 56k dialup to a cable broadband...
funny comments are good and deserve a +1 at the very least as good humor is what i love to read, if everyone was always serous and dry a lot of readers would get bored...
RE:[traditional telephone companies are demanding a level regulatory regimen for all service providers]
anything to squeeze a few bucks out of it before becoming obsolete
i would like to see them try that with me, i have cable internet and basic cable TV, the internet is great, cable TV sucks most of the time, all they have to do is raise the rate i am paying now and i will drop em like hot potato, and then they lose my 70 bucks a month, i can get a cheap dialup for about 12 bucks a month if i have to...
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no problems here with memory leaks using the build from mozilla's ftp, (installed on slackware-10.2)
my in-laws are still apes ;p
Quagmire's mom: (shouting off-screen): Glenn, would you feed mittens? Quagmire: Mittens has food in his bowl! Quagmires' mom: That's old food! (cat meows) Quagmire: Mittens, shut up! Mittens shut up! Quagmire's Mom: Don't you talk to Mittens that way. Mittens is a member of this family. Quagmire: Mom if you want this three-way to happen, you're gonna have to change your tone.
gigitty gigitty gigitty - Quagmire
um... it could be much bigger and sinister, what about corrupt people in power planting evidence on an opponents computer or anyone else they want to get rid of...
i live in this "God forsaken" state, and most of Oklahoma still thinks like it was the 1950's
__gee Wally? why do i have to be the Beaver?
since i do not make my living requiring an internet connection when the internet begins to cost more than what i deem reasonable i will gladly cancel my internet connection and use my computer for strictly offline use, (digital file cabinet?, accounting/checkbook balancing?) print documents?) computers are still usefull even without an internet connection, and with a small LAN i can write my own web pages and just make my own intranet :)
yes, the software on the CD is free, users are just paying for the cost of manufacturing the CD and shipping & handling...
eighty percent of the time i just surf and chat and exchange email with friends (fun), the other twenty percent of the time i do accounting (work)...
lets see - by their analogy i must buy a new car to drive to work, but i have to buy second new car to drive to the grocery store, and a third new car to drive out of town to visit relatives, and a fouth new car to drive to sporting events and concerts, or must i buy a fifth new car for concerts?, i must check with the RIAA automobile club
like a previous poster said, i wont buy in to any part of this DRMed crap --neither-hardware-or-software...
i have seen some shell scripts in my SeaMonkey's Cache directory, i am not sure what they did so i made a shell script to delete the cache files automatically...
it may be nothing but on the otherhand it may be an Evil shell script, next time i find one i will examine it closer...
i would like to see companies like Asus, DFI & Gigabyte start building a PPC arch motherboards along side their PC motherboards...
i will cancel my ISP account and use my PCs with only a LAN, (no WAN)
computers can still be usefrull without an internet connection to the outside world.
ditto, the more cool gadgets that get adapted to plug in to GNU/Linux based PCs the better, (Apple's Mac too)...
sounds like Microsoft could paint themselves in to a corner with a move like this...
Two Words:
Fair Tax
http://www.fairtax.org/
i switched to Linux from Windows when i got tired of the crashes & BSODs, malware & the usual kludge that windows tends to have, of all the distros i tryed i stuck with slackware, it seems the most stable and smoothest running, from what i read around the internet is that slackware is the most similar to unix (bsd) of all the linux distros, someday when Patrick Volkerding retires from keeping slackware developed i will probably switch to either OpenBSD or PC-BSD
Darl McBride gets to mow lawns and cash cars for Bill Gates for chump change...
RE:[and bombarded our planet with complex organic compounds that could have been crucial to the evolution of life here]
just dont tell the christians and ID people, this will upset them and possibly cause them to go on a crusade...
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
if they get the camera up again you can watch it...
if you format and re-install after every vulnerability that gets posted in the media you will wear out your PC just re-installing that --MS-Win-kludge, i suggest you learn to live without MS-Windows and give GNU/Linux or FreeBSD a spin, and actually take the time to learn it and not give up after half a day...
RE:[Most online activities, like standard websurfing, are not significantly sped up by high-bandwidth connections, and the few that are, such as downloading, are not typically time-sensitive anyway.]
no? when broadband means a hell of a lot of difference when downloading two to five 700 meg ISOs of the latest release of your favorite Linux Distro? try that on a 56k dialup...
i seen a lot of difference in websurfing too when i switched from a 56k dialup to a cable broadband...
funny comments are good and deserve a +1 at the very least as good humor is what i love to read, if everyone was always serous and dry a lot of readers would get bored...
live and laugh my friend...
RE:[traditional telephone companies are demanding a level regulatory regimen for all service providers] anything to squeeze a few bucks out of it before becoming obsolete
i would like to see them try that with me, i have cable internet and basic cable TV, the internet is great, cable TV sucks most of the time, all they have to do is raise the rate i am paying now and i will drop em like hot potato, and then they lose my 70 bucks a month, i can get a cheap dialup for about 12 bucks a month if i have to...