Maybe I'm a bad luck magnet, but last time I tried to update it pulverized X.
Hence the recommendation to reinstall.
Linux isn't really designed to handle big updates. Small and frequent, yes, but don't even think about lagging more than 3 versions behind on any given package. Before you flame me, I've had this experience on many different distros over the last five years, and GoboLinux was just about the only one shielded from the breakage by cleanly separating versions, and keeping the old one.
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
It is a GTK+ application yes, but it has quite a few different interfaces so you can switch to what you like, integrates easy tagging tools, and has full regex search capabilities.
What I don't see is the equivalent of Amarok's file browser, with drag and drop, which I consider an UI revolution on the order of Windows 95's taskbar, compared to 3.1.
The real advantage will be after feature parity with 1.4. Amarok 2.x is far superior 'under the hood'.
Do you know what I liked most in Amarok? The UI. A playlist, a file browser to drag stuff from, and a play button. That's it. I don't need a more complicated UI. I don't want one. Now there's a button for Wikipedia?
Do I have to go back to XMMS just because everyone's so fucking Web 2.0 now? In fact, the whole KDE4 thing looks like they want to deliberately lose every user who wants a simple, clean, responsive, effective UI. They overhyped the API changes so much, they forgot about the users. Why do you force me to use Fluxbox? I've already given up on Azureus, they did the same thing with Vuze.
This attitude is not really welcome among the users, you know. Compare the Linux login method: on a password failure, a 3 second waiting period is enforced before you can try again. After three strikes, 15 min lockout. 12/hour/host is way too slow for a good password, even with, say, 1 million attacking hosts.
Ah, just like old times. Since there's absolutely no way to stop the phenomenon, why don't we balance things out? Let the citizens spy on the government as well.
isn't it obvious, that once something has happened it cannot be erased from history of this light cone?
As even the summary mentioned, the problem is not that it's archived: it's instantly searchable.
Just for fun, I found a picture about myself drunk in 3 minutes with Google. Of course I know what I was looking for, and anyone else has no chance whatsoever to identify me now, but there you go.
P.S. I'm not even registered on any social networking site.
Sounds like he needed better parenting, let alone the fact that a child who commits suicide over something like that obviously had some other issues.
I'm waiting to see the suicide rates after this move. If it's only a few more, there's obviously no reason for the ban. If people commit suicide by the hundreds, we have a definite proof Darwin was right.
At any rate, why don't we start making games fun instead of addictive?
clean room SPECIFICATION (whatever that's supposed to mean).
I imagine it's something like this:
It used to be said [...] that AIX looks like one space alien discovered Unix, and described it to another different space alien who then implemented AIX. But their universal translators were broken and they'd had to gesture a lot.
Yes, because any average Joe user is capable of utilising that 'solution'.
The first thing I did with my laptop was to reinstall Vista with the DVD that came with it. Is there a way to get malware from there or the driver disk?
The developer of the clean implementation does not see one byte of the original code, onnly the reversed specs. This is how the original IBM BIOS was cleaned, allowing the PC explosion.
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Bah, I'd fuck a nice asian girl any day. What's your point?
Some people here would fuck anything that moves. What's your point?
Maybe I'm a bad luck magnet, but last time I tried to update it pulverized X.
Hence the recommendation to reinstall.
Linux isn't really designed to handle big updates. Small and frequent, yes, but don't even think about lagging more than 3 versions behind on any given package. Before you flame me, I've had this experience on many different distros over the last five years, and GoboLinux was just about the only one shielded from the breakage by cleanly separating versions, and keeping the old one.
Indeed he was.
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
There is a setting somewhere in the config to turn that off. I can't remember what I did but my 'Vuze' looks and acts just like Azureus did.
Last time I installed it, I couldn't find the setting until it hit my boredom threshold, so I'm using ktorrent now.
It is a GTK+ application yes, but it has quite a few different interfaces so you can switch to what you like, integrates easy tagging tools, and has full regex search capabilities.
What I don't see is the equivalent of Amarok's file browser, with drag and drop, which I consider an UI revolution on the order of Windows 95's taskbar, compared to 3.1.
And don't even get me started on GTK.
The real advantage will be after feature parity with 1.4. Amarok 2.x is far superior 'under the hood'.
Do you know what I liked most in Amarok? The UI. A playlist, a file browser to drag stuff from, and a play button. That's it. I don't need a more complicated UI. I don't want one. Now there's a button for Wikipedia?
Do I have to go back to XMMS just because everyone's so fucking Web 2.0 now? In fact, the whole KDE4 thing looks like they want to deliberately lose every user who wants a simple, clean, responsive, effective UI. They overhyped the API changes so much, they forgot about the users. Why do you force me to use Fluxbox? I've already given up on Azureus, they did the same thing with Vuze.
Fun fact: even Vista still has the classic UI.
Like the armenian genocide?
It's good that in tough times, our elected people stop and think outside the box a bit.
Not really. It's just a slightly bigger box.
* First off its apparently 251,388,301 English speakers in the US not 300 million.
Ok, +1 pedant, but the number you've quoted has changed since you posted it, so you're wrong as well.
And consider this: if even two people agree to use a specific spelling amongst themselves, it's correct amongst themselves by definition.
Your country also spells "thru"
I'm Hungarian. That's also not an official spelling in the US.
Larger values of stupid doesn't make something more correct somehow, just more stupid.
Except in spelling, where "correct" is either a consensus or arbitrarily codified. I kept my american spelling in the UK just to tick people off.
Don't forget Canadians as they spell it the correct way too and are more likely to run into an American who spells it color.
If 300 million people agree "color" is correct, it is correct. Just ask the question: for whom?
On the other hand, modern games usually have superior audio and graphics design, and more sophisticated storytelling, all key elements of great games.
I beg to differ. They can add to a game, but they don't make one. Just contrast Civilization and Spore. Not to mention D&D.
The thing you're talking about is Photoshop or Movie Maker, not a game.
Most tools can be used for discrimatory purposes.
Maybe we should outlaw photographs because it shows skin color.
Oh, and grammar, because the word "color" is discriminating to the colourful British.
If you don't have a "3-strikes" policy, you can be hit with a DOS.
Not when you there's an enforced delay of, say, 5 seconds after a bad attempt.
Yes, this does allow for DoS attacks. So what?
This attitude is not really welcome among the users, you know. Compare the Linux login method: on a password failure, a 3 second waiting period is enforced before you can try again. After three strikes, 15 min lockout. 12/hour/host is way too slow for a good password, even with, say, 1 million attacking hosts.
Citizens spy on you?
Ah, just like old times. Since there's absolutely no way to stop the phenomenon, why don't we balance things out? Let the citizens spy on the government as well.
I am a chemistry graduate and I've always said that for a high science, chemistry is very blue-collar. Let's look at the facts:
You wash your hands before going to the toilet.
isn't it obvious, that once something has happened it cannot be erased from history of this light cone?
As even the summary mentioned, the problem is not that it's archived: it's instantly searchable.
Just for fun, I found a picture about myself drunk in 3 minutes with Google. Of course I know what I was looking for, and anyone else has no chance whatsoever to identify me now, but there you go.
P.S. I'm not even registered on any social networking site.
Sounds like he needed better parenting, let alone the fact that a child who commits suicide over something like that obviously had some other issues.
I'm waiting to see the suicide rates after this move. If it's only a few more, there's obviously no reason for the ban. If people commit suicide by the hundreds, we have a definite proof Darwin was right.
At any rate, why don't we start making games fun instead of addictive?
If netbooks are mostly for email, web, etc., who needs a particular OS?
Not to mention the hardware constraints work against bloat, and nullify most of the sticking points that kept a lot of us on XP/Vista, like 3D games.
They will give you a choice of colours for your BSoD
I had that on Win 98 via registry hack.
Yes but that last 32k is the EVIL 32k
They keep it because it has the evil bit set?
clean room SPECIFICATION (whatever that's supposed to mean).
I imagine it's something like this:
It used to be said [...] that AIX looks like one space alien discovered Unix, and described it to another different space alien who then implemented AIX. But their universal translators were broken and they'd had to gesture a lot.
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Yes, because any average Joe user is capable of utilising that 'solution'.
The first thing I did with my laptop was to reinstall Vista with the DVD that came with it. Is there a way to get malware from there or the driver disk?
The developer of the clean implementation does not see one byte of the original code, onnly the reversed specs. This is how the original IBM BIOS was cleaned, allowing the PC explosion.