Supposedly there is no such word as "alot" since there is no such word as "alittle", I'm currently proposing a fix to this that there now will be a word spelled "alot" meaning "a lot".
At least they should have complete backups of md5 sums, that'll take what? a dozen floppies for all the software they've ever distributed, ever.
OK so floppies suck for backups, 1 blank rewritable cdrom, cost around 1$, if even that much, so they need a rewritable cdrom drive too, you can't tell me none of the members have one they're willing to use to do this.
I always hated later video game controllers for putting buttons under my right hand, I want my good coordinated hand to be the one controlling where I went with preciseness and control, I can then use my weak left hand to stab at the button with all the accuracy I could ever muster with it.
Re:The South African economy?
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The same thing that is done to any economy that is no longer needed, in the past the area where I live was the buggy whip making capital of the world, boohoo, they all got put out of work when the evil car companies started making horseless carriages.
Because then they wouldnt make enough money to be profitable, Debeers can sell their diamonds cheap because they're produced with labor of the near slave variety, and could undercut anyone they want at a moments notice with their stockpiles.
Re:It's that way with nuclear too....
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"hahaha, you said nuclear. it's noo-cyoo-ler! the 's' is silent." -Peter Griffin, Family Guy
My father was having some trouble with his network card, so I threw him one of my extras, he complained that it wasn't the same make/model as his last one and he needed drivers for it, I told him nope, we watched Windows boot up, guess what? No driver install doohickey ever popped up, it just worked, DHCP was grabbed and he was rolling fine.
They also block distribution, World War 2 Online is only available in a boxed product, for which the sole thing you get out of it is a piece of paper with a cd key on it, you then chuck the cd and manual it comes with because you have to download the game from the devloper because the game has changed so much from the version in the box.
Since you have to download the whole thing anyways why not sell the cd keys online? Simple, because the publisher locked Playnet into a contract forbidding them from doing so. Which is incredibly annoying waiting for your local store to get not one but two copies available when it was selling out all the time.
In this case and I'm sure there are many others the publisher is very much like a large record label but did even less, there was no money up front to cover costs, all they did was actually publish the game which was unneeded because the devloper had to republish it themselves anyways.
BSD already had it's day in court, it is one of the reasons Liunx came to be about in the first place, Linus wanted a home grown UNIX but the BSD based group was in court and its future uncertain so he decided to write his own from scratch.
Then it's extremely simple, at the end of the install check the little box saying you want Perl or Python or whatever, boom done.
Or if you script your installs you can have it done automagically.
Actually I wish they would move OpenSSH out of the base install too, because the way it is right now is annoying to upgrade, oh not too hard if you know what you're doing.
That is one of the main reasons why it's moved out of the base install, try upgrading telnet in Windows to a third party's, your usual end result is that you will have two telnet servers on your machine, not running both but two copies of it sitting around.
Then why not Python or TCL or Ruby or CobolScript.
sh is pretty much guaranteed to be on any UNIX or UNIX like machine you will ever encounter.
Perl might be on the most of them, but that's no reason to have it installed by default as opposed to another scripting language, where you already are going to need a shell so therefore sh is pretty much going to be there.
It's funny enough, but it's like the April Fools days articles here on slashdot, funny sure, but sometimes hard to tell between what is a joke and what is meant to be serious.
Wouldn't the obvious choice be sh scripting, since it is available everywhere, and it's not like it's hard to get Perl into FreeBSD, either select a package that requires Perl when you install your system, or select Perl itself, it's on the install CD.
It's just that if you do a minimal install, it's not there, which if you're talking 100 megs and Perl is another 12 is a good amount you might not want.
And also for those of us who don't want Perl on our systems there's no extra work of removing it, adding stuff onto a minimal base is much easier than having 400 megs of junk on my system which i then have to remove.
The reason I use IMAP on the same machine I generally read my mail on is that I can also read it from any other machine in the world that I trust with handy webmail.
Which of course limits it greatly since I wouldn't trust most machiens in the world, but all I need is an http connection as opposed to hoping I can ssh in.
I was just wondering if they took everything that was actually viable from PowerPlay and made Steam out of what was left of the good stuff, since Steam seems like PowerPlay without the hardware.
I've heard that before and I believe it to be true but at least some "strict information" can be, like maps or at least one person thinks maps can be copyrighted, and I would think
Anywho this isn't just information that's for public use like phone numbers are, I keep my logs strictly for my own private use, if you want them then you get them on my terms.
There might be a dividing line there, might not, as usual ask a lawyer friend, as no one on/. will give you the right answer anywho.
Which of course makes my posts offtopic, but the crack mods vote it underrated and and informative.
I think one thing that could possibly fix this is by giving almost everyone mod points.
Then again I think the us congress might possibly be fixed by having 100 times as many seats, can you imagine the RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft/Bad Guy of Whoever's Choice trying to bribe that many people, you'd get yahoos from the right, yahoos from the left and enough moderates to actually get the will of the people done.
I don't use Linux (I've got FreeBSD on my servers and firewall, and Windows on my desktop, it works for me, it may not be your cake), nor am I a real programmer(I can do some stuff, and I understand the basics, but I don't really put anything into practice).
Come on people how hard can it be, this has been a known problem for quite some time. I fully realize it is not a major problem, but if you're not willing to fix it, then at least stop using it as an excuse.
Of course I could be wrong and it's a horribly complicated mess to fix.
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Then he shouldn't be marked as Insightful. It should be humor.
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30% Interesting
It's neither, and the mods should be shot again.
Supposedly there is no such word as "alot" since there is no such word as "alittle", I'm currently proposing a fix to this that there now will be a word spelled "alot" meaning "a lot".
Thank you.
At least they should have complete backups of md5 sums, that'll take what? a dozen floppies for all the software they've ever distributed, ever.
OK so floppies suck for backups, 1 blank rewritable cdrom, cost around 1$, if even that much, so they need a rewritable cdrom drive too, you can't tell me none of the members have one they're willing to use to do this.
I always hated later video game controllers for putting buttons under my right hand, I want my good coordinated hand to be the one controlling where I went with preciseness and control, I can then use my weak left hand to stab at the button with all the accuracy I could ever muster with it.
The same thing that is done to any economy that is no longer needed, in the past the area where I live was the buggy whip making capital of the world, boohoo, they all got put out of work when the evil car companies started making horseless carriages.
Because then they wouldnt make enough money to be profitable, Debeers can sell their diamonds cheap because they're produced with labor of the near slave variety, and could undercut anyone they want at a moments notice with their stockpiles.
"hahaha, you said nuclear. it's noo-cyoo-ler! the 's' is silent."
-Peter Griffin, Family Guy
My father was having some trouble with his network card, so I threw him one of my extras, he complained that it wasn't the same make/model as his last one and he needed drivers for it, I told him nope, we watched Windows boot up, guess what? No driver install doohickey ever popped up, it just worked, DHCP was grabbed and he was rolling fine.
So what did you do when you were found with 40g of cocaine and a 12 year old prostitue in your car? My uh friend is in a similiar situation.
They also block distribution, World War 2 Online is only available in a boxed product, for which the sole thing you get out of it is a piece of paper with a cd key on it, you then chuck the cd and manual it comes with because you have to download the game from the devloper because the game has changed so much from the version in the box.
Since you have to download the whole thing anyways why not sell the cd keys online? Simple, because the publisher locked Playnet into a contract forbidding them from doing so. Which is incredibly annoying waiting for your local store to get not one but two copies available when it was selling out all the time.
In this case and I'm sure there are many others the publisher is very much like a large record label but did even less, there was no money up front to cover costs, all they did was actually publish the game which was unneeded because the devloper had to republish it themselves anyways.
BSD already had it's day in court, it is one of the reasons Liunx came to be about in the first place, Linus wanted a home grown UNIX but the BSD based group was in court and its future uncertain so he decided to write his own from scratch.
Then it's extremely simple, at the end of the install check the little box saying you want Perl or Python or whatever, boom done.
Or if you script your installs you can have it done automagically.
Actually I wish they would move OpenSSH out of the base install too, because the way it is right now is annoying to upgrade, oh not too hard if you know what you're doing.
That is one of the main reasons why it's moved out of the base install, try upgrading telnet in Windows to a third party's, your usual end result is that you will have two telnet servers on your machine, not running both but two copies of it sitting around.
Then why not Python or TCL or Ruby or CobolScript.
sh is pretty much guaranteed to be on any UNIX or UNIX like machine you will ever encounter.
Perl might be on the most of them, but that's no reason to have it installed by default as opposed to another scripting language, where you already are going to need a shell so therefore sh is pretty much going to be there.
It's funny enough, but it's like the April Fools days articles here on slashdot, funny sure, but sometimes hard to tell between what is a joke and what is meant to be serious.
Sorry, I wasn't aware you were going for the humor angle.
IPv4 = 2^32 = 4,294,967,296
IPv6 = 2^128 = 3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+38
Yep, looks like someone needs to check their figures, and I think it's you.
Wouldn't the obvious choice be sh scripting, since it is available everywhere, and it's not like it's hard to get Perl into FreeBSD, either select a package that requires Perl when you install your system, or select Perl itself, it's on the install CD.
It's just that if you do a minimal install, it's not there, which if you're talking 100 megs and Perl is another 12 is a good amount you might not want.
And also for those of us who don't want Perl on our systems there's no extra work of removing it, adding stuff onto a minimal base is much easier than having 400 megs of junk on my system which i then have to remove.
The reason I use IMAP on the same machine I generally read my mail on is that I can also read it from any other machine in the world that I trust with handy webmail.
Which of course limits it greatly since I wouldn't trust most machiens in the world, but all I need is an http connection as opposed to hoping I can ssh in.
They can also impose fines upon businesses that use forbidden words.
We recognize it in ourselves, but our arrogance is something to be proud of, other's arrogance is something to be ashamed of.
I was just wondering if they took everything that was actually viable from PowerPlay and made Steam out of what was left of the good stuff, since Steam seems like PowerPlay without the hardware.
I've heard that before and I believe it to be true but at least some "strict information" can be, like maps or at least one person thinks maps can be copyrighted, and I would think
/. will give you the right answer anywho.
Anywho this isn't just information that's for public use like phone numbers are, I keep my logs strictly for my own private use, if you want them then you get them on my terms.
There might be a dividing line there, might not, as usual ask a lawyer friend, as no one on
One of only two reasons to use a mac.
Escape Velocity and Marathon Infinity.
Which of course makes my posts offtopic, but the crack mods vote it underrated and and informative.
I think one thing that could possibly fix this is by giving almost everyone mod points.
Then again I think the us congress might possibly be fixed by having 100 times as many seats, can you imagine the RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft/Bad Guy of Whoever's Choice trying to bribe that many people, you'd get yahoos from the right, yahoos from the left and enough moderates to actually get the will of the people done.
Correct and thank you.
I don't use Linux (I've got FreeBSD on my servers and firewall, and Windows on my desktop, it works for me, it may not be your cake), nor am I a real programmer(I can do some stuff, and I understand the basics, but I don't really put anything into practice).
Come on people how hard can it be, this has been a known problem for quite some time. I fully realize it is not a major problem, but if you're not willing to fix it, then at least stop using it as an excuse.
Of course I could be wrong and it's a horribly complicated mess to fix.