Where's that old "I DID NOT KNOW THAT!".wav when you need it?:)
Sears Building, eh?... For some reason that makes me think of a gentleman named Steve Lawson, the only human being I have ever met who could bend a Sears Craftsman drop-forged vanadium alloy wrench in half with his bare hands. Found out on my last trip to the US that he died a couple of years back. He was only in his 40s. He was just too damned big, and his heart couldn't keep up.
And he was a great guy who wouldn't have hurt a fly.
You don't give him nearly enough credit. This is actually part of his fiendishly clever plot to prove that Slashdot stores posts in BLOB and not TEXT columns.
1. The objective is (as I understand it) to learn Linux, not a particular distro.
2. CentOS is very easy to set up, and it's rock-solid.
3. What are these key differences in config to which you allude but do not name? Last time I installed CentOS, the only difference I could see with upstream was the removal of the RHL name and logo. Seriously, I'm curious.
I mess about with others from time to time, but I've found nothing to beat the hardware support, and 9 times out of 10, if you're looking for an app and don't see it in YasT, you'll find it from the Build Service.
It has a few quirks, but so does every distro.
Oh, and BTW... I have had to use the system repair tools *once*. They worked. The End.:)
Now pretend that it's a judge or DA who's just said this (and perhaps displayed the URLs on a screen in... um... I know, a courtroom!), and that it's not just your kindly old Uncle Zon talking at you over his Sunday morning cuppa.
Here it's Slashdot, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeerah, ABC, SBS, Sydney Morning Herald, Pravda, South China Post. Sometimes I watch CCTV news as well. Occasionally, I read Pravda in an effort to keep my very rusty Russian language skills from entirely disappearing (okayyyyy... maybe a bit of Soviet nostalgia there, too; so sue me, already, for having grown up in the heyday of the Cold War, and let's get on with it).
I quit bothering very much with CNN or any other US outlet ten years ago... About 5 minutes after I saw how much news *didn't* get reported on the American sites/channels. Which was about 5 minutes after my first evening TV news experience in Australia with ABC, SBS, and BBC.
Shit, last time I was *in* the US, I watched SBS or BBC on my laptop for my news fix. Tried to watch CNN with my Dad, and the cognitive dissonance actually started making my head hurt.
Fortunately, he lives on a lake in Florida; he, his dogs, his fishing boat, and I found lots better things to do most of the time than watching television.:)
Moving away from the US was the smartest damn thing I've ever done in my life--it got me away from the mental poison known as American TV.
And you're still wrong, because you've been taken in by a latent psycho who's playing you (and anyone else who's naïve enough to believe her) for a fool.
I would have canned her before the DDOS even started.
Her conduct was completely unprofessional, rather childish, incredibly stupid, directly contrary to the interests of both her employer and of the dev community she was allegedly sent to support, and pretty obviously calculated.
Oh, and possibly legally actionable.
Hell, yes, I would have shown her the door. In a heartbeat.
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My Android devices have no trouble switching between US, Scandinavian, and pinyin keyboard modes.
Can you not get anything newer than Cupcake over there?
Is this greenish ick on the sole of my shoe the remnant of your misplaced brain?
That is the fucking stupidest comment I've read all week.
You are obviously not a parent, and you evidently do not read the news.
(And yes, kids get *kidnapped* all the time.)
Where's that old "I DID NOT KNOW THAT!" .wav when you need it? :)
Sears Building, eh? ... For some reason that makes me think of a gentleman named Steve Lawson, the only human being I have ever met who could bend a Sears Craftsman drop-forged vanadium alloy wrench in half with his bare hands. Found out on my last trip to the US that he died a couple of years back. He was only in his 40s. He was just too damned big, and his heart couldn't keep up.
And he was a great guy who wouldn't have hurt a fly.
RIP, gentle giant.
citation needed. x10 or so.
Seriously. I've been to both countries, and I think you're making shit up.
...posts of mindless drivel, free of cogent thought belong to Yahoo, not Slashdot.
Hi! You must be new here...
You don't give him nearly enough credit. This is actually part of his fiendishly clever plot to prove that Slashdot stores posts in BLOB and not TEXT columns.
That's an excellent question.
... the headquarters of Starbucks would be flattened.
Yet you say this as if it were a bad thing.
Still so smug. Let me guess, still shaking down the other kids for their lunch money at recess?
One of the things I take the least pride in as an American is the rampant anti-intellectualism.
Your post got downmodded because you're a nutjob gone off his meds.
They're still around.
0 for 3 so far... Keep up the good work, I guess.
1. The objective is (as I understand it) to learn Linux, not a particular distro.
2. CentOS is very easy to set up, and it's rock-solid.
3. What are these key differences in config to which you allude but do not name? Last time I installed CentOS, the only difference I could see with upstream was the removal of the RHL name and logo. Seriously, I'm curious.
You don't have to do that--there are plenty of good distros which support KDE.
Just looking at the first couple pages in the Arch wiki drove me---Well, okay, if I weren't already, it *would* have, though, of this I am certain!
"If I want to run a Windows box, I'll go buy a copy of Windows" --me, on Ubuntu.
SUSE/OpenSUSE user since 2005.
I mess about with others from time to time, but I've found nothing to beat the hardware support, and 9 times out of 10, if you're looking for an app and don't see it in YasT, you'll find it from the Build Service.
It has a few quirks, but so does every distro.
Oh, and BTW... I have had to use the system repair tools *once*. They worked. The End. :)
Dunno if you're trying to be clever or what...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXXo
http://www.jaybob.org/
Now pretend that it's a judge or DA who's just said this (and perhaps displayed the URLs on a screen in... um... I know, a courtroom!), and that it's not just your kindly old Uncle Zon talking at you over his Sunday morning cuppa.
Still feeling clever now?
Here it's Slashdot, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeerah, ABC, SBS, Sydney Morning Herald, Pravda, South China Post. Sometimes I watch CCTV news as well. Occasionally, I read Pravda in an effort to keep my very rusty Russian language skills from entirely disappearing (okayyyyy... maybe a bit of Soviet nostalgia there, too; so sue me, already, for having grown up in the heyday of the Cold War, and let's get on with it).
I quit bothering very much with CNN or any other US outlet ten years ago... About 5 minutes after I saw how much news *didn't* get reported on the American sites/channels. Which was about 5 minutes after my first evening TV news experience in Australia with ABC, SBS, and BBC.
Shit, last time I was *in* the US, I watched SBS or BBC on my laptop for my news fix. Tried to watch CNN with my Dad, and the cognitive dissonance actually started making my head hurt.
Fortunately, he lives on a lake in Florida; he, his dogs, his fishing boat, and I found lots better things to do most of the time than watching television. :)
Moving away from the US was the smartest damn thing I've ever done in my life--it got me away from the mental poison known as American TV.
"whinge" is what proper English speakers do instead of "whine". :)
(If you're not an Aussie or spent lots of time there, you probably will not get this.)
And you're still wrong, because you've been taken in by a latent psycho who's playing you (and anyone else who's naïve enough to believe her) for a fool.
I would have canned her before the DDOS even started.
Her conduct was completely unprofessional, rather childish, incredibly stupid, directly contrary to the interests of both her employer and of the dev community she was allegedly sent to support, and pretty obviously calculated.
Oh, and possibly legally actionable.
Hell, yes, I would have shown her the door. In a heartbeat.
...if you're in public, be as euphemistic as possible, it might help.
Good luck with that. In my experience, the likelihood of an unintentional double entendre increases exponentially with euphemistic density.
Well, I've heard it called "long pig". Make of that, what you will.