This seriously peeves me off. I switched to IBM Lenovo machines from HP/Compaqs that wouldn't boot linux nicely, especially so I could switch more easily later. Now Lenovo pulls support!
I read the 3 Investigators Choose Your own Adventure knockoffs even.
I'd keep my fingers in the previous choice page, so I could go back and try the other endings without missing any. Sometimes I'd end up flipping through the book after I'd thought I'd read everything, and I found a new page with an alternate bad ending.
Here in SK, Canada the name display is $4/month, and number display is another $3.80CDN.
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I think Ubuntu should have a popup for people not in the USA, to a site like Easy Ubuntu, so they can play MP3s, without editing files and manually downloading codecs. Really, Windows users don't have to do that, why should Linux users be inconvenienced?
I agree that to a new user, the hard drive icons are "broken", because they are. It's stupid that they don't include easy instructions to correct the problem in countries where the solution is legal. All they have to do is base the Instructions popup on the country of install origin.
Easy Ubuntu is something I've tried a little bit, and seems to work for a lot but I don't know if it introduces a Read/Write NTFS driver or not? What's the easiest graphical way to edit the fstab? Until there's a simple checkbox with a legal disclaimer, it's hard to sell Ubuntu to a novice user as something they can set up for themselves with as little effort as Windows.
Except that isn't the case, if you read the next update. The rule cited by the registrar was one where they feared they'd be sued for defamation, and that can't happen where they'd lose because there was no defamation present, just some good ol'e political parody of which is common in Canada.
It's as if the store had a minor code violation that could be fixed, and then a phony trumped up charge was used to close it instead.
CBC.ca had a story this week on the TV news too, where the MPAA is suing a young man in Vancouver for operating isoHunt. I guess they are stepping up the attacks on torrent sites.
I tried telling my Interweb Explorer sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade and it didn't work. The Internet is broken I guess, and there's no Linux for me.
"A famous incident involving molasses was the Boston Molasses Disaster on January 15, 1919, in which a large molasses storage tank burst and flooded a neighborhood of Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150." Wikipedia
I used to hibernate until my ATI AIW started acting wonky with an updated driver and prevented it from working. Now going on 2 years later I've yet to figure out a way to fix it short of starting from scratch.
In my Word Press I avoid Captcha because it is implemented badly in most cases. People shouldn't have to type more than 3 characters, there must be a way to conceal the appearance, and subsequently approve an IP address to always post.
I use Akismet spam filter instead, and it's blocked 780 so far, and has false positived 4 comments, and missed about 4.
I prefer my "techie" steam blowing method: Join Bike Club. There's only one rule to Bike Club, and that's to always bring your wallet. Mostly it involves getting on a bicycle and pedalling to either where you want to go, or to where you don't yet know you want to be.
So far I'm the only official member, but membership is growing.
I guess the rule of law really is dead in the United States. And someone can't be a good citizen unless they are in favour of the president or anything the executive cooks up that goes against the supreme law of the land.
If sending resources which is a concrete action that isn't going to work, then what concrete action is there? Throwing up your hands and buying a $600 console because "that money wouldn't matter anyway in Sudan" isn't a solution at all. They are complex problems, what's the best way you see to get aid to the people who need it, and possibly enable them to change their government?
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That's what I was thinking too. Wouldn't that be an ODD coincidence, eh? And who'd be around to pummel them if it were too.
This seriously peeves me off. I switched to IBM Lenovo machines from HP/Compaqs that wouldn't boot linux nicely, especially so I could switch more easily later. Now Lenovo pulls support!
*Ned Flanders string of profanity here*
I read the 3 Investigators Choose Your own Adventure knockoffs even.
I'd keep my fingers in the previous choice page, so I could go back and try the other endings without missing any. Sometimes I'd end up flipping through the book after I'd thought I'd read everything, and I found a new page with an alternate bad ending.
Here in SK, Canada the name display is $4/month, and number display is another $3.80CDN.
I think Ubuntu should have a popup for people not in the USA, to a site like Easy Ubuntu, so they can play MP3s, without editing files and manually downloading codecs. Really, Windows users don't have to do that, why should Linux users be inconvenienced?
I agree that to a new user, the hard drive icons are "broken", because they are. It's stupid that they don't include easy instructions to correct the problem in countries where the solution is legal. All they have to do is base the Instructions popup on the country of install origin.
Easy Ubuntu is something I've tried a little bit, and seems to work for a lot but I don't know if it introduces a Read/Write NTFS driver or not? What's the easiest graphical way to edit the fstab? Until there's a simple checkbox with a legal disclaimer, it's hard to sell Ubuntu to a novice user as something they can set up for themselves with as little effort as Windows.
I prefer the mainframe posture:
Standing, hands either typing, or feeding punch cards, while wanting to cover ears for the fan noise.
"store isn't following the fire code"
Except that isn't the case, if you read the next update. The rule cited by the registrar was one where they feared they'd be sued for defamation, and that can't happen where they'd lose because there was no defamation present, just some good ol'e political parody of which is common in Canada.
It's as if the store had a minor code violation that could be fixed, and then a phony trumped up charge was used to close it instead.
A link for itf ung-piracy.html
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/05/31/
There is more at http://www.isohunt.com/ too.
"50 policemen?! Why so many?"
In my experience, it shows either poor intelligence [information] on behalf of the law enforcement organization, or poor intelligence [dumb].
CBC.ca had a story this week on the TV news too, where the MPAA is suing a young man in Vancouver for operating isoHunt. I guess they are stepping up the attacks on torrent sites.
I tried telling my Interweb Explorer
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade
and it didn't work. The Internet is broken I guess, and there's no Linux for me.
My mistake, it WAS in January!
"A famous incident involving molasses was the Boston Molasses Disaster on January 15, 1919, in which a large molasses storage tank burst and flooded a neighborhood of Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150." Wikipedia
"You could probably outrun it easily; molasses isn't very fast."
It was probably the ginger snapping at their heels that tripped them up.
And it probably wasn't in January either. Molasses is actually quite fast in other months.
But then you have to reinstall Windows! A hard drive can't work without Windows after all...
:-)
Or provide them with a CD of Ubuntu and tell them it's Windows Vista Linux Ubuntu
That bastard! How would we unlock our corrupted pron?
Oh right - bit torrent.
I used to hibernate until my ATI AIW started acting wonky with an updated driver and prevented it from working. Now going on 2 years later I've yet to figure out a way to fix it short of starting from scratch.
In my Word Press I avoid Captcha because it is implemented badly in most cases. People shouldn't have to type more than 3 characters, there must be a way to conceal the appearance, and subsequently approve an IP address to always post.
I use Akismet spam filter instead, and it's blocked 780 so far, and has false positived 4 comments, and missed about 4.
You don't just need a beer serving robot, you need one that serves CONDOMS too. Oh wait, this is Slashdot, nevermind ;-)
Oh what the heck, here it is - the condom dispensing robot you can build at home.
I wonder what his thoughts on hot grits, pants, and Natalie Portman are?
I prefer my "techie" steam blowing method:
Join Bike Club.
There's only one rule to Bike Club, and that's to always bring your wallet. Mostly it involves getting on a bicycle and pedalling to either where you want to go, or to where you don't yet know you want to be.
So far I'm the only official member, but membership is growing.
I guess the rule of law really is dead in the United States. And someone can't be a good citizen unless they are in favour of the president or anything the executive cooks up that goes against the supreme law of the land.
But does he run linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Alexes designing CSS templates for the web.
What about a natural disaster in the 3rd world?_ story&id=3477
http://ckom.com/index.php?p=localnews&action=view
If sending resources which is a concrete action that isn't going to work, then what concrete action is there? Throwing up your hands and buying a $600 console because "that money wouldn't matter anyway in Sudan" isn't a solution at all. They are complex problems, what's the best way you see to get aid to the people who need it, and possibly enable them to change their government?