1. Smarties
2. Crispy Crunch
3. Coffee Crisp
4. The size of our footballs, fields and one less Down
5. Lacrosse is Canadian
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian
8. Mr. Dress-up can kick Mr. Rogers ass
9. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
10. In the war of 1812, Canadians pushed the Americans so far back...passed their 'White House', we burned it... and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away so we came home and partied... Go figure.
11. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.
12. We have the largest English population that never-ever surrendered or withdrew during any war.
13. Our civil war was a big bar fight that lasted a little over an hour.
14. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing...but showed up just in time to get caught.
15. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
16. The Hudson's Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest Company.
17. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
18. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
19. We don't marry our kin-folk.
20. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, zambonis,the long distance and short wave radios that save countless live each year.
21. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
22. Oh ya...and the handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
I picked up a Q3 Linux Tin Box in little old London, Ontario from Electronics Boutique *very* shortly after Loki released them.
However,*sigh*
I pretty much exclusively play it on Win98 for performance reasons but my money will always go to the Linux guys in hopes that one day things will be better.
I spent a good deal of time researching this card before I bought it, unfortunately, most of the research came from a gaming perspective. The majority of my computing time is not spent gaming so the VCQ, Dual-Head, and good linux support where the features that appealed to me the most. However, when I do find time to quake, I'm pretty serious about it so I wanted a good performer.:) Although I spend all my time in linux at home, I am a win32 developer by title so I naturally keep a partition around for NT and VS6. As soon as I had the card installed under NT i went straight to the ~/timedemo 1. What I saw blew me away, my $300 CDN, 32Meg G400 MAXX was a whole single FPS *slower* than my V2 8Meg. ARGGHH!!! Nothing I did would give me the performance I needed. With 98, the driver is clean, polished, and FAST! Too bad 98 is useless for anything else but games and I'm really not interested in wasting resources on multiple win32 OS's for single purposes. Not to mention the serious moral implications I have about leaving an entire CPU idle on my SMP system. =)
Needless to say, great hardware, atrocious software. I am anxious to see what Precision Insight puts together and I sincerely hope it's functionality and performance is on par with the 98 driver.
strain2k "If every day was a sunny day, what would be a sunny day?"
I never lived on-campus when i was in school but I had a cablemodem in my apartment. In my second term, I moved to a new apartment downtown and just assumed it was cable ready. When I found out it wasn't, and wouldn't be ready for another 6 months, I took a gravy job as a lab tech so I'd have a reasonable excuse for spending hours at school on the fat pipe. Needless to say, I'm back on cable and my zip disk collection has accumulated some serious dust. =)
Also, my gf's friend is about as Joe Average Computer user as they come and she got cable modem installed because she was used to the speed.
Having been a long time DOS and then Windows power user ( if there is such a thing), I've seen the transition from speedy and efficient dos apps to multi-tasking visual apps so i'd like to offer my take on the merits of a GUI.
I like a GUI primarily for its (G)raphical aspect, I like being able to get a snapshot of everything happening with a single glance and I especially like progress meters and gauges (which also reads: yes I now use windowmaker and am running every system dockapp available:). At this moment in computer time, what windows has done well and what X lacks ( huh, huh, he said xlax.;) is make the (G)raphical work in harmony with the UI. When I switched to linux/X as my primary OS with RedHat 5.2, my biggest frustration was a noticeable reduction in operating efficiency. My complaints were not about using shortcuts to maximize/minimize windows or running new programs, most or all X window managers I've tried are quite proficient at handling those tasks. However, my complaints came from navigating in the active window, whatever application that may be. The most noticeable aspects I miss are; a) typing the first letter of a word in a long list box and having the list box move to the first occurrence, b) pgup and pgdn in list boxes, and c) Alt-downarrow to expand drop down list boxes. The X apps I've tried that handle those key bindings are slim to none meaning I can not complete the task at hand without using my mouse, which is quite frustrating to say the least.
What this has lead me to do now is become very proficient with what makes xNIX really shine, e.g. the scripting capabilities of my shell, pipes, and the whole philosophy of linking many small, single use and efficient programs together to perform complicated tasks. After spending months figuring out what the hundreds of all those tiny little programs that RedHat has installed by default are, I am more efficient now than I've ever been. This has also resulted in the reversal of my problem when I'm forced back onto a windows machine, I find I am far less efficient once again. So now the X apps I run are mostly informative or web browsing and all my real work gets done at the command line.
At this point I think it should be noted that all this has been fine for me, I'm and enthusiast and a power user and the learning curve has been, although frustrating at times, mostly interesting and enlightening. However, there is no way in hell someone like my father, the hardened executive who also happens to be in a position that approves and procures IT, would stand to deal with these things for more than five minutes. I think it should also be noted to all you X hackers and GUI builders out there that focusing on the usability of your apps may be just the key to bringing over the next wave of windows users to linux. By that I mean reasonably savvy computer enthusiasts who are just now becoming frustrated with this mess that is windows.
Anyway, this is huge and i'm babbling so i'll just say it's my $0.04.
strain "I started off with nothing... and still have most of it left." Not I
I don't think this has been posted yet and I believe it qualifies as a very impressive hack on the entire investment world. Billions of dollars were lost as a result of a small group of people and carefully crafted plan that very few people saw coming. The effects of which were felt world wide.
strain I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure
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The best ftp server for win32, bar none! and fully open source. coincidence ... ??
Never get caught wearing the wrong gang colors in the wrong hood ... wessyyyyyde!!
sTrAiN
So, what DOES a Canadian Have to be Proud of?
.........OOOOoohhhhh Canada!! Eh!!! ;)
1. Smarties
2. Crispy Crunch
3. Coffee Crisp
4. The size of our footballs, fields and one less Down
5. Lacrosse is Canadian
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian
8. Mr. Dress-up can kick Mr. Rogers ass
9. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
10. In the war of 1812, Canadians pushed the Americans so far back...passed their 'White House', we burned it... and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away so we came home and partied... Go figure.
11. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.
12. We have the largest English population that never-ever surrendered or withdrew during any war.
13. Our civil war was a big bar fight that lasted a little over an hour.
14. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing...but showed up just in time to get caught.
15. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
16. The Hudson's Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest Company.
17. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
18. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
19. We don't marry our kin-folk.
20. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, zambonis,the long distance and short wave radios that save countless live each year.
21. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
22. Oh ya...and the handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
I picked up a Q3 Linux Tin Box in little old London, Ontario from Electronics Boutique *very* shortly after Loki released them.
However,*sigh*
I pretty much exclusively play it on Win98 for performance reasons but my money will always go to the Linux guys in hopes that one day things will be better.
Kudos to id and Loki.
sTrAiN
I spent a good deal of time researching this card before I bought it, unfortunately, most of the research came from a gaming perspective. The majority of my computing time is not spent gaming so the VCQ, Dual-Head, and good linux support where the features that appealed to me the most. However, when I do find time to quake, I'm pretty serious about it so I wanted a good performer. :) Although I spend all my time in linux at home, I am a win32 developer by title so I naturally keep a partition around for NT and VS6. As soon as I had the card installed under NT i went straight to the ~/timedemo 1. What I saw blew me away, my $300 CDN, 32Meg G400 MAXX was a whole single FPS *slower* than my V2 8Meg. ARGGHH!!! Nothing I did would give me the performance I needed. With 98, the driver is clean, polished, and FAST! Too bad 98 is useless for anything else but games and I'm really not interested in wasting resources on multiple win32 OS's for single purposes. Not to mention the serious moral implications I have about leaving an entire CPU idle on my SMP system. =)
Needless to say, great hardware, atrocious software. I am anxious to see what Precision Insight puts together and I sincerely hope it's functionality and performance is on par with the 98 driver.
strain2k
"If every day was a sunny day, what would be a sunny day?"
I never lived on-campus when i was in school but I had a cablemodem in my apartment. In my second term, I moved to a new apartment downtown and just assumed it was cable ready. When I found out it wasn't, and wouldn't be ready for another 6 months, I took a gravy job as a lab tech so I'd have a reasonable excuse for spending hours at school on the fat pipe. Needless to say, I'm back on cable and my zip disk collection has accumulated some serious dust. =)
Also, my gf's friend is about as Joe Average Computer user as they come and she got cable modem installed because she was used to the speed.
strain
"I put the sin in syntax, baby"
Having been a long time DOS and then Windows power user ( if there is such a thing), I've seen the transition from speedy and efficient dos apps to multi-tasking visual apps so i'd like to offer my take on the merits of a GUI.
:). At this moment in computer time, what windows has done well and what X lacks ( huh, huh, he said xlax. ;) is make the (G)raphical work in harmony with the UI. When I switched to linux/X as my primary OS with RedHat 5.2, my biggest frustration was a noticeable reduction in operating efficiency. My complaints were not about using shortcuts to maximize/minimize windows or running new programs, most or all X window managers I've tried are quite proficient at handling those tasks. However, my complaints came from navigating in the active window, whatever application that may be. The most noticeable aspects I miss are; a) typing the first letter of a word in a long list box and having the list box move to the first occurrence, b) pgup and pgdn in list boxes, and c) Alt-downarrow to expand drop down list boxes. The X apps I've tried that handle those key bindings are slim to none meaning I can not complete the task at hand without using my mouse, which is quite frustrating to say the least.
... and still have most of it left." Not I
I like a GUI primarily for its (G)raphical aspect, I like being able to get a snapshot of everything happening with a single glance and I especially like progress meters and gauges (which also reads: yes I now use windowmaker and am running every system dockapp available
What this has lead me to do now is become very proficient with what makes xNIX really shine, e.g. the scripting capabilities of my shell, pipes, and the whole philosophy of linking many small, single use and efficient programs together to perform complicated tasks. After spending months figuring out what the hundreds of all those tiny little programs that RedHat has installed by default are, I am more efficient now than I've ever been. This has also resulted in the reversal of my problem when I'm forced back onto a windows machine, I find I am far less efficient once again. So now the X apps I run are mostly informative or web browsing and all my real work gets done at the command line.
At this point I think it should be noted that all this has been fine for me, I'm and enthusiast and a power user and the learning curve has been, although frustrating at times, mostly interesting and enlightening. However, there is no way in hell someone like my father, the hardened executive who also happens to be in a position that approves and procures IT, would stand to deal with these things for more than five minutes. I think it should also be noted to all you X hackers and GUI builders out there that focusing on the usability of your apps may be just the key to bringing over the next wave of windows users to linux. By that I mean reasonably savvy computer enthusiasts who are just now becoming frustrated with this mess that is windows.
Anyway, this is huge and i'm babbling so i'll just say it's my $0.04.
strain
"I started off with nothing
I don't think this has been posted yet and I believe it qualifies as a very impressive hack on the entire investment world. Billions of dollars were lost as a result of a small group of people and carefully crafted plan that very few people saw coming. The effects of which were felt world wide.
strain
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure
One of these on Xmas morning should be enough to induce a 360 degree smile.
http://www.megacar.com/
strain
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