not everybody wants to throw down 300 bucks for ms-office and with the economy in the toilet even more so. there are lots of people that just need to print a decent looking document, or use a generic spreadsheet for some basic accounting, i use openoffice's spreadsheets to do checkbook balancing since i have a debt card and no more checkbook with built in register so i save my receipts and when i get home i fire up OO.org and update the withdrawals and balance (would be nice if there was a template to automate some of it)...
and i thought i was hogging bandwidth when i recently run rsync on my favorite Linux distro mirror, i have my own private mirror on my harddrive including full sources & build scripts all weighing in at just a little over four gigs, pay a good chunk of change for a bundled service for broadband, cable TV, & landline telephone, so i am going to use some of the bandwidth i pay for...
i just think back years ago when i used windows = not free, then you have to buy anti-virus, buy a decent firewall, buy anti-malware, then some clever trojans & rootkits are not found by the anti-virus & anti-malware so you gotta buy some special app for each and every trojan and rootkit, so if microsoft wants to talk about expenses & expensive add-ons...
they thought Obama was going to change everything in to a liberal socialist utopia, just look at what he has been doing = bailing out the same corporate entities with billions of tax payer dollars that have been in business long before Obama & his bullshit story he used when he was campaigning before he got elected, its the same old shit every politician uses to get elected - rinse & repeat every four years and the US voting population eats it up like candy. this Lawyer is just another shill of the established corporatocracy...
i agree wholeheartedly! the fucking christians that spew their poisonous brain-rot daily just makes me livid...
there is no god, no satan, when someone dies they enter the second eternal non-existence, (= a person did not exist for an eternity before they are born and they will not exist for an eternity after they die) the life we have now is all you get so make the best of it, dont turn criminal because now you dont have to worry about a non-existent god sending you to hell, but because civilization & society will catch you and put you in prison, do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do.
of disk space for a friggin OS is just crazy! i like FreeBSD & PCBSD, but it is getting bloated!
i have the disk space (500gigs), but i would have to re-arrange some disk partitions which means i would have to burn several DVDs of backup so i don't lose data, you would think any OS would keep t3h bloat below 5 gigs!
i recently bought a 20 inch LCD HDTV that has a VGA & HDMI ports in the back, it basically turned the PC in to just another channel on television. i really dont want much TV and spend more of my free time on the PC, i do watch a few shows with it and it makes going to the computer to the television show more convenient for me...
no atmosphere to burn up or to slow/deflect meteors, those robots would be sitting ducks to the full force of meteor impacts, even marble sized meteors would be like shooting those robots with a high powered rifle...
i just tried Safari 3 & 4 with wine-1.0.1 in Slackware-12.2 Safari-3 would run but terribly buggy, Safari-4 would install but not run at all, so all you Linux users thinking of running Safari with wine dont bother...
know somebody who you dont like at school or work that just happens to use this ISP? just complain three times to the ISP and "Bam!" no more internets...
some days i would be google searching for things and google would turn up crap on occasion, and i would use various search terms on occasion just to make sure the google's search engine, database [whatever] was understanding what i was looking for, google does look like it is getting swamped with pay click crap websites on occasion, i would guess people in charge of these crap websites are working 24-7 to game google's system for profit...
i think you mean sh,/bin/sh is a symlink to bash in most all Linux systems, calling bash from the sh symlink: Man page ahead::
If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of his-
torical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX stan-
dard as well. When invoked as an interactive login shell, or a non-interactive
shell with the --login option, it first attempts to read and execute commands from/etc/profile and ~/.profile, in that order. The --noprofile option may be used to
inhibit this behavior. When invoked as an interactive shell with the name sh, bash
looks for the variable ENV, expands its value if it is defined, and uses the
expanded value as the name of a file to read and execute. Since a shell invoked as
sh does not attempt to read and execute commands from any other startup files, the
--rcfile option has no effect. A non-interactive shell invoked with the name sh
does not attempt to read any other startup files. When invoked as sh, bash enters
posix mode after the startup files are read.
/bin/csh is usually a symlink to/bin/tcsh in most all Linux systems.
the iphone is just an expensive "ooh! shiny thing" fanboy toy for the apple fanboys, if you want to surf the internet you'll want at least a 15 inch screen laptop so as a web surfing tool those internet capable cellphones are just bullshit bling to jack the price up, GPS would be a more plausible feature for a mobile user who may need directions to a destination, other than GPS the only thing i would want a device that small for would be phone calls,,,
Slashdot Mirror
not only is Eric Raymond wierd, slashdot.org seems to be having a cookie problem...
not everybody wants to throw down 300 bucks for ms-office and with the economy in the toilet even more so. there are lots of people that just need to print a decent looking document, or use a generic spreadsheet for some basic accounting, i use openoffice's spreadsheets to do checkbook balancing since i have a debt card and no more checkbook with built in register so i save my receipts and when i get home i fire up OO.org and update the withdrawals and balance (would be nice if there was a template to automate some of it)...
the Terminator runs on Linux!
and i thought i was hogging bandwidth when i recently run rsync on my favorite Linux distro mirror, i have my own private mirror on my harddrive including full sources & build scripts all weighing in at just a little over four gigs, pay a good chunk of change for a bundled service for broadband, cable TV, & landline telephone, so i am going to use some of the bandwidth i pay for...
are the government IT in the USA really this incompetent?
isn't cross-site scripting a web browser exploit? =
i just think back years ago when i used windows = not free, then you have to buy anti-virus, buy a decent firewall, buy anti-malware, then some clever trojans & rootkits are not found by the anti-virus & anti-malware so you gotta buy some special app for each and every trojan and rootkit, so if microsoft wants to talk about expenses & expensive add-ons...
they thought Obama was going to change everything in to a liberal socialist utopia, just look at what he has been doing = bailing out the same corporate entities with billions of tax payer dollars that have been in business long before Obama & his bullshit story he used when he was campaigning before he got elected, its the same old shit every politician uses to get elected - rinse & repeat every four years and the US voting population eats it up like candy. this Lawyer is just another shill of the established corporatocracy...
considering the way most websites are designed nowadays i would call them idiots, (or their supervisors are) :D
i agree wholeheartedly! the fucking christians that spew their poisonous brain-rot daily just makes me livid...
:D
there is no god, no satan, when someone dies they enter the second eternal non-existence, (= a person did not exist for an eternity before they are born and they will not exist for an eternity after they die) the life we have now is all you get so make the best of it, dont turn criminal because now you dont have to worry about a non-existent god sending you to hell, but because civilization & society will catch you and put you in prison, do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do.
HappyTrails
if the OS installer would let you
of disk space for a friggin OS is just crazy! i like FreeBSD & PCBSD, but it is getting bloated!
i have the disk space (500gigs), but i would have to re-arrange some disk partitions which means i would have to burn several DVDs of backup so i don't lose data, you would think any OS would keep t3h bloat below 5 gigs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o
George Carlin hits the nail on the head, He sums up why i am an atheist...
Your comment pretty much sums it up in a nutshell...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZXEatfhSk
why pay X amount of dollars for microsoft-windows when you can get Linux for FREE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKx1aenJK08
i recently bought a 20 inch LCD HDTV that has a VGA & HDMI ports in the back, it basically turned the PC in to just another channel on television. i really dont want much TV and spend more of my free time on the PC, i do watch a few shows with it and it makes going to the computer to the television show more convenient for me...
no atmosphere to burn up or to slow/deflect meteors, those robots would be sitting ducks to the full force of meteor impacts, even marble sized meteors would be like shooting those robots with a high powered rifle...
i just tried Safari 3 & 4 with wine-1.0.1 in Slackware-12.2 Safari-3 would run but terribly buggy, Safari-4 would install but not run at all, so all you Linux users thinking of running Safari with wine dont bother...
know somebody who you dont like at school or work that just happens to use this ISP? just complain three times to the ISP and "Bam!" no more internets...
some days i would be google searching for things and google would turn up crap on occasion, and i would use various search terms on occasion just to make sure the google's search engine, database [whatever] was understanding what i was looking for, google does look like it is getting swamped with pay click crap websites on occasion, i would guess people in charge of these crap websites are working 24-7 to game google's system for profit...
i think you mean sh, /bin/sh is a symlink to bash in most all Linux systems, calling bash from the sh symlink: Man page ahead::
/etc/profile and ~/.profile, in that order. The --noprofile option may be used to
inhibit this behavior. When invoked as an interactive shell with the name sh, bash
looks for the variable ENV, expands its value if it is defined, and uses the
expanded value as the name of a file to read and execute. Since a shell invoked as
sh does not attempt to read and execute commands from any other startup files, the
--rcfile option has no effect. A non-interactive shell invoked with the name sh
does not attempt to read any other startup files. When invoked as sh, bash enters
posix mode after the startup files are read.
/bin/csh is usually a symlink to /bin/tcsh in most all Linux systems.
If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of his- torical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX stan- dard as well. When invoked as an interactive login shell, or a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first attempts to read and execute commands from
satellites that nudge space junk back down in to the atmosphere so it can (hopefully) burn up upon reentry...
the iphone is just an expensive "ooh! shiny thing" fanboy toy for the apple fanboys, if you want to surf the internet you'll want at least a 15 inch screen laptop so as a web surfing tool those internet capable cellphones are just bullshit bling to jack the price up, GPS would be a more plausible feature for a mobile user who may need directions to a destination, other than GPS the only thing i would want a device that small for would be phone calls,,,