would mod you up if I had points.
Yeah i snoop through you files... as in, I run a search to see if you've decided to backup your ENTIRE itunes collection, Hi-def tv series, pictures/videos of your boring family, install massive programs to your home directory that i installed centrally on the file store 4 months ago or other entirely pointless files that do not need to be backed up and is eating up half of that space ON OUR REALLY EXPENSIVE SAN STORAGE
otherwise, your files are boring and I have much better things to be doing.
yeah you would of thought that sending out an email wouldn't be too hard either, but I had to see that my site was, down for a few hours, log in to their site to check out what's going on and submit a support ticket and end up poking around onto some forum post which I don't normally look at
Then they post "don't submit a support request on it, we're inundated with calls, we know about it."
Yeah, the only problem being that your customers don't and are left guessing.
Wrong, for commercial support in ubuntu you need to pay for it
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
if you're talking about home users, then compare with Fedora. No home users will buy support from ubuntu because they can just get it for free
because the requirements aren't the same? I don't need compiz-fusion or fancy artwork, I don't care about userfriendlyness because i'm going to hire some guru to look after my servers. I want my server to be never crash and have no security vulnerabilities whilst serving X thousand requests on my website.
Although upon saying that, with fedora/rhel it's hard to push out. I've been trying to convince my boss to let us use fedora on users desktops. As it's less of a pain for the stuff that users want, but because there is not support he's hesitant to allow it. With ubuntu this problem wouldn't be there
I was going to say they could just remove users from sudoers, but knowing standard school setup they'll forget.
Back when I was in school they always kept the default passwords. So looking in the manual for "the default password is set to" or simply guessing gave easy access.
from wikipedia "Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and is the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies....."
god, you should of seen the program, they were going around with "radiation testers" comparing it to the level of phone masts and then saying
"So what about near this laptop then" "OMG IT IS SO HIGH HERE" "And this would be about the height of a child's head wouldn't it?" "OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN"
Then they went around talking to random people who were "sensitive to wi-fi" and got headaches and crap. It was exactly the same as the people who go around claiming to be psychic, the woman had actually TIN FOILED HER ENTIRE APARTMENT because she couldn't take it. Yet she was only accurate in detecting the precsence of wi-fi 60% of the time
indeed, maths and physics are dominated by males. Where does this come from? probably back from school where they're just geeky subjects. And no one wants to be associated with anything geeky in their teenage years when they're busy trying to be cool/girly/slitting their wrists/whatever is hip with the kids nowadays.
in a FPS you start off with a knife or a pistol, then about 40 million levels later you have the super mega ultra special cannon
in a driving game, you start off of 3 crappy cars, and you have to get the better ones, infact in some of these driving ones you have to earn your driving license?! I think that's pointless but someone likes it. Then after driving 800 tracks a million times you can get flames on your car or whatever
in a RTS you start off with "moron who throws stones" later you get ultra tank shooting lightning
Precisely, there must be hundreds of photos on facebook where people have tagged other people as pictures of poo, cows or other stupid things, or even cases where people tag just a picture of a girl's breasts, a close up of a nose or something stupid
the second rep who got it probably tried to explain it to her supervisor or whatever and after a telling off thought "i'm not being paid enough to deal with this shit..." and just passed it onto someone else. I probably would of done the same if everyone else i work with( at least appears to be) are so stupid
remember your average person has troubles with computers period.
Which always means that someone I know is calling me to "fix" their bloody computers. Usually nothing is wrong with their computer, they just have no idea how to use it. Switching them to Linux would probably make no difference... they have no idea how to use it
Time to shut up, I know i shouldn't reply to trolling, it's bad for my health, but whoever decided to mark you as insightful deserves to be shot. "Just install it yourself" wake up sonny boy you need to install winamp yourself and don't give me crap that it's more difficult to install
oh relying on ID3 tags is it? strange what's this fangled button that i can press on amarok saying "Guess Tags From Filename" and it even lets you edit how the filename scheme is done for your own collection on the "filename schemes" button, not that I've ever had to because they've filled them in all ready with just about all possible combinations for artist song album whatever.
stability... I could give similar trolling arguments for winamp. I've seen comments like "Oh it doesn't eat much ram if you have it minimized" WHAT? A minor point but still an annoyance, i've also experienced the playback on winamp go to crap because there was too much keyboard input at the time (for some reason) causing the audio to playback 4 times as fast with a lovely fuzz
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would mod you up if I had points. Yeah i snoop through you files... as in, I run a search to see if you've decided to backup your ENTIRE itunes collection, Hi-def tv series, pictures/videos of your boring family, install massive programs to your home directory that i installed centrally on the file store 4 months ago or other entirely pointless files that do not need to be backed up and is eating up half of that space ON OUR REALLY EXPENSIVE SAN STORAGE otherwise, your files are boring and I have much better things to be doing.
yeah you would of thought that sending out an email wouldn't be too hard either, but I had to see that my site was, down for a few hours, log in to their site to check out what's going on and submit a support ticket and end up poking around onto some forum post which I don't normally look at Then they post "don't submit a support request on it, we're inundated with calls, we know about it." Yeah, the only problem being that your customers don't and are left guessing.
http://gizmodo.com/393815/exclusive-dell-mini-inspiron-their-first-mini-laptop link to actual photos
which eventually ends back up in RHEL which is based off every 3rd version of Fedora
Wrong, for commercial support in ubuntu you need to pay for it http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid if you're talking about home users, then compare with Fedora. No home users will buy support from ubuntu because they can just get it for free
because the requirements aren't the same? I don't need compiz-fusion or fancy artwork, I don't care about userfriendlyness because i'm going to hire some guru to look after my servers. I want my server to be never crash and have no security vulnerabilities whilst serving X thousand requests on my website. Although upon saying that, with fedora/rhel it's hard to push out. I've been trying to convince my boss to let us use fedora on users desktops. As it's less of a pain for the stuff that users want, but because there is not support he's hesitant to allow it. With ubuntu this problem wouldn't be there
I was going to say they could just remove users from sudoers, but knowing standard school setup they'll forget. Back when I was in school they always kept the default passwords. So looking in the manual for "the default password is set to" or simply guessing gave easy access.
buy it now! you can preorder it on amazon.co.uk! YES! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Take-2-Duke-Nukem-Forever/dp/B00005NCEZ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1198148048&sr=8-1 best £25 i EVER spent
if perl 6 actually got released today i'm pretty sure the world would just segfault
from wikipedia "Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and is the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies....."
or, it's the same thing
"....Oh, and hot model science-officers....."
Spock?
http://www.garbledonline.net/Brasseye.html Brasseye, the science episode with spherical cows and vertical farms
god, you should of seen the program, they were going around with "radiation testers" comparing it to the level of phone masts and then saying
"So what about near this laptop then"
"OMG IT IS SO HIGH HERE"
"And this would be about the height of a child's head wouldn't it?"
"OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN"
Then they went around talking to random people who were "sensitive to wi-fi" and got headaches and crap. It was exactly the same as the people who go around claiming to be psychic, the woman had actually TIN FOILED HER ENTIRE APARTMENT because she couldn't take it. Yet she was only accurate in detecting the precsence of wi-fi 60% of the time
indeed, maths and physics are dominated by males. Where does this come from? probably back from school where they're just geeky subjects. And no one wants to be associated with anything geeky in their teenage years when they're busy trying to be cool/girly/slitting their wrists/whatever is hip with the kids nowadays.
and the velociraptors http://xkcd.com/c87.html
in a FPS you start off with a knife or a pistol, then about 40 million levels later you have the super mega ultra special cannon in a driving game, you start off of 3 crappy cars, and you have to get the better ones, infact in some of these driving ones you have to earn your driving license?! I think that's pointless but someone likes it. Then after driving 800 tracks a million times you can get flames on your car or whatever in a RTS you start off with "moron who throws stones" later you get ultra tank shooting lightning
Precisely, there must be hundreds of photos on facebook where people have tagged other people as pictures of poo, cows or other stupid things, or even cases where people tag just a picture of a girl's breasts, a close up of a nose or something stupid
the second rep who got it probably tried to explain it to her supervisor or whatever and after a telling off thought "i'm not being paid enough to deal with this shit..." and just passed it onto someone else. I probably would of done the same if everyone else i work with( at least appears to be) are so stupid
oh ho ho ho, sometimes I make myself laugh.....
don't want to troll/ go completley off topic, but please explain to me what linux lacks that prevents games from being made for it?
remember your average person has troubles with computers period. Which always means that someone I know is calling me to "fix" their bloody computers. Usually nothing is wrong with their computer, they just have no idea how to use it. Switching them to Linux would probably make no difference... they have no idea how to use it
Time to shut up, I know i shouldn't reply to trolling, it's bad for my health, but whoever decided to mark you as insightful deserves to be shot. "Just install it yourself" wake up sonny boy you need to install winamp yourself and don't give me crap that it's more difficult to install
oh relying on ID3 tags is it? strange what's this fangled button that i can press on amarok saying "Guess Tags From Filename" and it even lets you edit how the filename scheme is done for your own collection on the "filename schemes" button, not that I've ever had to because they've filled them in all ready with just about all possible combinations for artist song album whatever.
stability... I could give similar trolling arguments for winamp. I've seen comments like "Oh it doesn't eat much ram if you have it minimized" WHAT? A minor point but still an annoyance, i've also experienced the playback on winamp go to crap because there was too much keyboard input at the time (for some reason) causing the audio to playback 4 times as fast with a lovely fuzz
wow, so not only does it cook eggs faster, with it's multiple cores it can be an eggtimer as well! Now THAT's innovation!