Attitude counts for more than size. What you want is more a dog that will make a lot of noise, not one that will attack people and get you into legal problems.
What you don't want is a siberian husky. Part wolf they may be, but my sister had two mountain bikes stolen from under the nose of one. For that matter it was probably glad to see the thieves, as long as they threw its ball.
In Australia, at least, a "Beware of the Dog" sign is a major legal liability, unless your dog really warrants it.
You are effectively saying "My dog is dangerous and I know it" and the first person it bites for whatever reason is going to have that much more chance of suing you.
The best test is whether it asks you to go somewhere to provide information. Links to the site are OK if they are just general links, but if it is of the form "go here and re-enter your information to verify your account" it's a fake. I got 100% using this logic.
No legitimate company will ask you for personal details via email. If you're not sure whether something's legit, spend the money on a phone call to the company and ask them about it.
Imagine a US senator calling for extermination of indians or arabs or anybody for that matter. It would never happen in the US because we are a civilized country.
You've obviously forgotten about the 19th Century US Cavalry.
That's very true, and he did a lot of similar cartoons for other people.
Unfortunately the later Prof. Branestawm books lacked the W. Heath Robinson illustrations.
I always found it difficult to figure out though, how something cranked by hand and made mostly of old broom handles could cause such mayhem as they invariably do in the stories.
YOu may be surprised, I run KDE over MAndrake Linux 10.0 on a 450MHz PC with 320M memory, and an old 32M NVidia TNT video card. I have menu transparency, shadowing, and icon zooming all turned on and it runs just fine. I even manage to run Quake 2 and 3 using OpenGL under KDE with this box, although I usually switch to IceWM when gaming for better performance.
I'm also using it on a 550MHz crappy Packard Bell box with Intel on board graphics (hey it was a freeby) using FreeBSD. Again even with the Intel graphics, it runs transparent menus, icon zooming and shadows with no trouble. About the only thing I had to turn off was full window moving (works better with outline window moving), and it doesn't do OpenGL, but it performs well enough in 2D.
Yeah I know, all this stuff is old, time I upgraded etc. etc.
I suspect that, if they have enough memory (>128M)and decent video cards(anything that will run full colour accelerated sould, those old Dells could run KDE better than you think. Otherwise, use IceWM or Windowmaker.
Actually I run FreeBSD 4.10 as a desktop OS and I have found it will run everything Linux will run so far. Using KDE3.2 it even looks much the same. It talks to my usb scanner and my usb card reader. It prints to my inkjet printer on another machine via CUPS. It supports my Intel integrated graphics (yuk!) and drivers for NVidia cards are available.
It is more difficult to configure, especially for things like automounting CD-ROMs and DVDs, but it boots up a lot faster than my Mandrake 10 box.
The only thing separating it from the more hardcore distros like Gentoo or Debian is the licence. Some people like it better, some don't
Optus and Telstra did this in Sydney with cable TV.
Lots of public protest about the extra overhead cabling forced them to stop, and now they aren't doing any new suburbs, because underground is too expensive, so those of us who live there have to use satellite TV and ADSL.
In Canberra, TransACT have put fibre to your house strung on poles as well. Although the poles in Canberra are at the back of people's houses, not the front, so no-one seems to object. Again though, new suburbs with underground power don't get it for a long time yet.
My uncle used to breed angoras and had a buck with horns that looked like two corkscrews each about 2 feet long - basically not to be messed with. He had several other bucks as well and during the breeding season they all stank of goat piss.
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Even countries break them when it suits them to do so...
Guantanamo Bay, the whole Iraq thing, Israel's nuclear program, Iran's nuclear program are all examples
It was my car that got stolen. No RFID tag offered for that (not by the theme park anyway)
They won't let that stop them.
Example: SSEC (Shanghai SINOPEC Engineering Corporation).
Attitude counts for more than size. What you want is more a dog that will make a lot of noise, not one that will attack people and get you into legal problems.
What you don't want is a siberian husky. Part wolf they may be, but my sister had two mountain bikes stolen from under the nose of one. For that matter it was probably glad to see the thieves, as long as they threw its ball.
In Australia, at least, a "Beware of the Dog" sign is a major legal liability, unless your dog really warrants it.
You are effectively saying "My dog is dangerous and I know it" and the first person it bites for whatever reason is going to have that much more chance of suing you.
No, what you want is an MP3 saying "ANSWER the F***ING PHONE!" over and over again.
Then you'll remember to turn it off when you're in a public place.
After the first few times anyway.
Daaaaaad, can you get me one of those? could become a thing of the past.
Wooot!
The best test is whether it asks you to go somewhere to provide information. Links to the site are OK if they are just general links, but if it is of the form "go here and re-enter your information to
verify your account" it's a fake. I got 100% using this logic.
No legitimate company will ask you for personal details via email. If you're not sure whether something's legit, spend the money on a phone call to the company and ask them about it.
Region coding isn't about piracy (you can pirate a DVD from any region or no region)
It's about market control. It's also apparently illegal in New Zealand.
You've obviously forgotten about the 19th Century US Cavalry.
Actually my Mustek USB scanner works fine under FreeBSD 4.10. The secret is to use usblib, not the kernel drivers.
Hey Starbucks Downtown New York!
Your coffee sucks!
(ticks entry in notepad, vanishes)
That's very true, and he did a lot of similar cartoons for other people.
Unfortunately the later Prof. Branestawm books lacked the W. Heath Robinson illustrations.
I always found it difficult to figure out though, how something cranked by hand and made mostly of old broom handles could cause such mayhem as they invariably do in the stories.
He sounds like Professor Branestawm.
I have a few of the books about this bloke, he was always inventing weird stuff and then having it go wrong.
YOu may be surprised, I run KDE over MAndrake Linux 10.0 on a 450MHz PC with 320M memory, and an old 32M NVidia TNT video card. I have menu transparency, shadowing, and icon zooming all turned on and it runs just fine. I even manage to run Quake 2 and 3 using OpenGL under KDE with this box, although I usually switch to IceWM when gaming for better performance.
I'm also using it on a 550MHz crappy Packard Bell box with Intel on board graphics (hey it was a freeby) using FreeBSD. Again even with the Intel graphics, it runs transparent menus, icon zooming and shadows with no trouble. About the only thing I had to turn off was full window moving (works better with outline window moving), and it doesn't do OpenGL, but it performs well enough in 2D.
Yeah I know, all this stuff is old, time I upgraded etc. etc.
I suspect that, if they have enough memory (>128M)and decent video cards(anything that will run full colour accelerated sould, those old Dells could run KDE better than you think. Otherwise, use IceWM or Windowmaker.
To each his own, but as an addicted mc user I found that the way Gnome Terminal hijacks the F10 key (and other F* keys) very annoying.
Sure it's a little thing, and I'm sure it's possible to change it, but Konsole suits the way I work better.
Godwin's law! Godwin's law!
Man that was a short thread.
What?
Well someone had to do it.
Didn't they?
with the candlestick?
Actually I run FreeBSD 4.10 as a desktop OS and I have found it will run everything Linux will run so far. Using KDE3.2 it even looks much the same. It talks to my usb scanner and my usb card reader. It prints to my inkjet printer on another machine via CUPS. It supports my Intel integrated graphics (yuk!) and drivers for NVidia cards are available.
It is more difficult to configure, especially for things like automounting CD-ROMs and DVDs, but it boots up a lot faster than my Mandrake 10 box.
The only thing separating it from the more hardcore distros like Gentoo or Debian is the licence. Some people like it better, some don't
Optus and Telstra did this in Sydney with cable TV.
Lots of public protest about the extra overhead cabling forced them to stop, and now they aren't doing any new suburbs, because underground is too expensive, so those of us who live there have to use satellite TV and ADSL.
In Canberra, TransACT have put fibre to your house strung on poles as well. Although the poles in Canberra are at the back of people's houses, not the front, so no-one seems to object. Again though, new suburbs with underground power don't get it for a long time yet.
Strange no other media picked up on this, but then Western Australia is pretty remote
Legal or not, it's 100% stupid if the traffic is moving. Plenty of people have been cleaned up doing this.
No, they were trying to clear Borg from the deflector array
A buck? How do you deal with the smell?
My uncle used to breed angoras and had a buck with horns that looked like two corkscrews each about 2 feet long - basically not to be messed with. He had several other bucks as well and during the breeding season they all stank of goat piss.