So, the writing for P2P applications like BitTorrent is pretty much on the wall now.
P2P applications like Skype cope rather well with NAT, as it happens. That's 'rather well' from Skype's perspective, not from the perspective of the poor sod whose machine is routing hundreds of other peoples' phone calls.
...the natural (and often unconcious) reaction in a crash situation is for the driver to turn his side of the vehicle away from the situation in an attempt to protect himself.
I was told when learning to drive that studies showed that the natural reaction was actually to swerve to the left - which is why we Brits drive on the left. It's safer to swerve away from oncoming traffic after all.
As for slow, I don't know where you get your data from, but comparing my gaming XP box to my SuSE Linux 10.0 box, XP actually boots faster, and the GUI is quite a bit more responsive than X with either KDE or Gnome too.
That's a little harsh - it was quite a good theory for its time (pre-Darwin, and before the rediscovery of Mendel's work), just wrong. Now, Lysenkoism, there's a pseudoscience.
I read that there was another, altogether more sinister reason. Once the bible was translated from latin into languages that the general populace could read, some people started realising that what the church said was in the bible wasn't necessarily accurate. Things like, you need to give all your money to the church or you won't get into heaven.
The church could control this with just a few burnings when the translations were copied by hand, but once the printing presses started churning them out by the thousand they had to very quickly go after the printers and presses, or lose all control over the population. They didn't act quickly enough, and so did lose control.
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So, the writing for P2P applications like BitTorrent is pretty much on the wall now.
P2P applications like Skype cope rather well with NAT, as it happens. That's 'rather well' from Skype's perspective, not from the perspective of the poor sod whose machine is routing hundreds of other peoples' phone calls.
- definitely use genetically engineered crops (there may be exceptions to this)
There, fixed that for you.
Imagine your code editor doing on the fly analysis of what you are coding, and making suggestions.
Agh! Clippy, why won't you die?!
since it started to be known as x.org...
sorry.
Linux lickers
Eww... I mean, it's a nice OS but... Eww...
Score:5, Informative?! Where's my bloody mod points when I need them...
The one thing I've never been able to get to grips with about the linux desktops are the fonts.
Try defoma.For me it was one sentence in that article: "Switching results in a win 2/3 of the time because 2/3 of the time, the players initial pick was a goat."
Ding! Lightbulb.
allow a few systems^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h grains of sand
You do know ^w deletes a word, don't you? Might save you some typing.
You must appreciate the IT Director who demands (and I mean vehemently demands) that all 5000 computers deployed MUST HAVE FEET.
You might laugh, but those little feet saved half a dozen of my machines from a shallow watery grave when we had a flood last year.
As there's no '-1 Annoyingly Smug'...
Sage?
I know this is Slashdot, but sometimes it's really worth RingTFA. This is one of those times.
I was told when learning to drive that studies showed that the natural reaction was actually to swerve to the left - which is why we Brits drive on the left. It's safer to swerve away from oncoming traffic after all.
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rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.
Am I doin it rite?
And a bit like Linux vservers, from the sound of it.
Chrysanthemum is often made into a tea, but it contains pyrethrum which is a "natural pesticide".
Was going to make a pithy comment about pyrethrin being an insecticide, and harmless to mammals. But I had to go and check on wikipedia
"For humans, pyrethrin is known to irritate eyes, skin, and respiratory systems."
Hmph.
IT'S A JOKE! You know, irony?
Oh, never mind, this is slashdot.
I use aptitude, because it's less typing. A-P-T-I-tab as opposed to A-P-T-hyphen-G-tab. And yes, that's the only reason.
Perhaps it's worth trying upstart and Xfce.
</plug>Well, yes.
And so they did.
pseudo-sciences such as Lamarckism
That's a little harsh - it was quite a good theory for its time (pre-Darwin, and before the rediscovery of Mendel's work), just wrong. Now, Lysenkoism, there's a pseudoscience.
Plenty of other sites you can buy un-DRMed music from. I use bleep.
I read that there was another, altogether more sinister reason. Once the bible was translated from latin into languages that the general populace could read, some people started realising that what the church said was in the bible wasn't necessarily accurate. Things like, you need to give all your money to the church or you won't get into heaven.
The church could control this with just a few burnings when the translations were copied by hand, but once the printing presses started churning them out by the thousand they had to very quickly go after the printers and presses, or lose all control over the population. They didn't act quickly enough, and so did lose control.
I like your reason too though.
Meanwhile the Curia argues over whether the church should ban printing presses since they will put all the clerics in abbeys out of work...
That's not why they wanted to ban printing presses....