OK OK Yes I know that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I was quoting Animal House!! I am offended that there are more than 2 people on slashdot who can't draw the coralliation. At least a couple of people got it though. WOW talk about ignorance sucking the intelligence out of the intelligent.
Just like the "lazy/apathetic/weak/ignorant" yeoman farmers of the 1700's which defeated the largest most powerful "professional" army in the world. There is no doubt that crime, violent crime specifically decrease when a given population because armed. My point is that there is no reason why the military and or police forces have the ability to wield fully automatic weapons, grenades, and other weapons capable of inflicting large scale damage, and the populace does not. BTW when has the "'tyrannical government' argument" been debunked? Nearly ever one of the founding fathers correspondence mentions this as one of the prime reasons for including the 2nd in the Bill of Rights?
Let remember that the 2nd Ammendant was intended to provide the people with a method of dealing with tyranical governments, mainly ours. So 'technically' if the governement can have one I should be able to as well. Keeps the playing field balanced.
And before some dillhole starts spewing about 'regulated militia', the definition of militia is "any able bodied man between 16 and 65 NOT (repeating this) NOT in service with the federal government" I'd give you a link but I am too lazy to look it up.
The data on the drive should be recoverable with the right tools...none of which are expensive. There are even some companies that specialize in recovering data from this kind of loss. I have done it several times for customers, it's no biggy if you know how to deal with it.
Yeah, It's hard to listen to eviron*MENTAL*ist when the last 2 winters in cleveland have had record snowfalls and record low temps. Listen people, at one time Greenland was mostly green and had decent farmable land. The Nile river valley was once the most fertile area in the known world, and it became a desert how many years ago, couple thousand? For the sack of the Gods leave the f'ing planet alone. It will change, we will adapt, it's the way it has been since the beginning of friggan time. I can remember when I had just started grade school, the same scientist that were screaming about globe warming today were the same fools who were screaming that the next ice age would happen by 2000.
This is all about money people. These histerical jack-offs need grant money and the only way to get it is by speculating that the doom of all mankind is just around the corner, until proven wrong then it's another pending doom.
Look at it this way; Warmer climates, more CO2, more evaporation, more percipitation, all add up to longer growing seasons. This is a great breakthrough because the planet now needs even more food to support humankind. It's a win win.
Think of this.... In the 40's there was a large contingent of the scientific community that felt that the detonation of atomic devices would trigger a chain reaction that would burn the atmosphere, and once triggered it couldn't be stopped. As global warming really didn't pick up speed until the 60's, maybe they were right, and it just needed time to catalyse. So that proves that GCC is actually caused by the atomic testing in the 40's and 50's.
Or maybe the Mexicans are causing it in a great conspiracy to warm the US so that they can move even more illegals into the US.
I am so sick of hearing this drival....Get off of my rock....
Anyone remember reading about how scientists in the '40's thought that detonating an atomic devices would cause a chain reaction in the atmosphere which would burn the planet to a crisp? What if they were right? What if this chain reaction just needed time to catalyse?
Another though. There is alot more asphalt and concrete on the surface of the planet, sucking up the sun's heat all day. Could these be the cause of global warming? Maybe.
Better yet, why is there even an argument about this. Think about it. Warmer climate, more evaporation, more evaporation more moisture in the atmoshpere. Warmer, more humid, more vegetation growth, more food...
Even if *WE* are the cause of GCC there isn't a whole hell of alot we can do about it now. If we stopped burning stuff, everything I mean, the problem isn't just going to go away. We are one of the most adaptable species on this rock and we will adapt to the new environment.
Or maybe we should start killing each other off in larger numbers so that the environmental impact is less. I say that we start with anyone wearing the color pink....
Great, now that I have finally begun embrace Linux in general, Ubuntu specifically, for general, all around use at home, the friggan frog parliment decides *IT* needs to use it. I am now going to have to ditch my efforts to get off of the Microshaft addition, all because of the damn French. Oh wait...maybe they will give up on their adoption of Ubuntu, they give up on everthing else easy enough.
I'm not saying that these scientist did or did not achieve the posted results. I just want to remind everyone that prior October 14, 1947, the speed of sound could not, could never will never be broken. Before testing the first atomic bomb some scientist felt that an atomic detonation would cause a chain reaction that would turn the entire atmosphere into burning vapor. During the early part of the 1900's if you traveled faster than 25 mph it was felt that the skin on your face would be ripped off. Prior to 1492, almost all of Europe felt that if you kept sailing west you would fall off the edge of the world.
My point is this, 'barriers' are meant to be overcome. We put limits on things that we don't understand, claiming it is impossible. Nothing is impossible, once you figure it out.
I understand your plight! I am the network manager for a small manufacturing company. I have 50 users, nearly all of whom are above the age of 45. There is ZERO communication at my organization. No one uses email. I have suggested implementing IM or even an collaboration package and the response from 'up on high' is "no one will use it" which is probably true because no one even uses email effectively. Those of us under 40 are almost twice as productive. Another thing that I have noticed is that those of us under 40 tend to share information. This is different from general communication in that we don't tend to horde knowledge. There is no real team building.
If your goal is to keep something out someone elses hands you can make it 100% secure by destroying it (kinda like MAD) before or as they get it. Maybe not the best method but it is 100%, presupposing they can't reconstruct it from the remains.
Originally, a computer was a person who computes or makes computations. A "PC" is a machine that assists a 'computer' with making computations. However, languages evolve, new words are created, old words disappear or thier meanings change all together. While I do agree that a flash memory device with an OSS OS and software is not a computer, *technically* neither is the 'computer' that I am writing and you are reading this post with. So I propose that we rename "PC's" to "Zimborks"
DAMN YOU!!!! Damn you and your green blooded logic!
It's called sarcasm!!! Besides it CAN be done with paddle wheels if designed properly.
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"Might as well try to build a dam at the curb of your street to generate electricity from teh water flowing into the sewers:P"
That idea stinks....but it's crazy enough that it just might work. There is always water flowing in the sewars, hook up a few thousand paddle wheels attached to a generator and you could probably power a few streetlights. Or, maybe a heating coil under the street surface to melt snow and ice.
Redline, if anyone remembers, was a tremendous FPS circa '98. It had alot of athe features taht modern FPS's are just now incorporating. The graphics were outstanding for the time and aren't too shabby now. I really don't know why the game wasn't more popular and why they (Accolade) didn't follow up with it.
I am glad that your experience has been better than mine. I have had some good experiences working with people with more experience with Linux than I. I am not saying that EVERYONE is a demeaning prick, that my experience (10+years) has shown more of this kind of behavior on most of the forums that I have observed. I've been to several local installfests and had a blast and met some great people. I am also glad to note that you are one of the "good guys", however I do not have the time to spend in IRC's or to wait for mailing lists. Perhaps if I did my opinion would be different. When I have a problem it needs to be solved in no more than 30 minutes or it is unusable my me and my users. Even with 'playing with it' in my spare time, I haven't the patience to spend hours trying to find answers to questions that I shouldn't need to ask.
As to a specific example of a lengthy (3 pages) but really good howto, I will mention VM-Ware. Very recently (last week) I installed Ubuntu and wanted to install VM-Ware Server. I did a Google and found a couple of Howtos for it. Within 10 minutes I was underway with installing it. The Howto I used was very good, however I wouldn't expect any of my users to be able to follow the instructions. So far Ubuntu has been pretty good...so far.
I will also say that the dependacy package installtion process is GREATLY improved over the distos I have tinkered with in the past. Even the last disto of Minerva I played with wasn't bad. I see progress and I am happy that there is some choice. I just don't think Linux of any flavor is quite there yet. At one of the shops that I managed we tried to make Linux availlible, the problem at that time was driver support. This has improved greatly. Even if it was already setup and ready to go no one wanted those systems. Trying to force feed a population an OS will only frustrate them (ie Windows). Actually if Windows was free do you think that we would be having this discussion?
Now given all of this, have I noticed changes for the better? Hell yeah. Could it replace Windows as the main desktop OS? Maybe. For the last ten years, every year the Linux camp would say "in the next 5 years, Linux will clobber Microsoft" I would always say "lets talk in 5 years" Conclusions? still not there...Yet.
My only problem with Linux, in general, is the hostility of the community based support. If I have a problem with Windows, I can Google it and find a number os repsonses. The overwhelming majority of the threads that are returned have solutions or suggestions that are non-hostile. I Try that with Linux and most of the threads don't have solutions, they have flaming A-holes yelling about how the solution is so simple that a retarded monkey can fix the problem. That tells me that they themselves don't know or that they are retarded monkeys. Eitherway the hostility that the majority of Linux community has towards those who are trying to learn more or figure out a problem with Linux is so discouraging that most "users" are scared off. Until the community and moderators Linux forums actually start encouraging and supporting the unknowing masses Linux as a standard OS will suffer.
It also doesn't help that every distro has it's own "standard". Example, Ubuntu uses GZ and Red Hat uses RPM. A given GZ or RPM might not work with the distro you currently are using but might work with others.
Additionaly there is also complexity when it comes to installing software/apps/packages that general users do not/can not take time to learn. Windows on the other hand is easy, double click on the executable and bang your done. It doesn't require 3 pages of instructions to do an typical install.
In my opinion this is why Linux has had problems taking over as the mainstream in desktop OS.
I hope that the nuclear waste dump that they sketched in on the other side of the moon does explode hurling the moon, with Moonbase Alpha, out of earth orbit and stranding the 311 crewman. I didn't turn out so good in the '70's ya know? The uniforms were tacky too.
Thank you! I only wish that you would have included your name.
Yes I am a tribalist....MY tribe doesn't cut and run like a coward. My tribe not only understand the meaning of the flag but is willing to bleed, if necessary for it. My tribe understands that there is a group of people on the rock that hate our very existance, who ONLY want to destroy our way of life and the liberal mindset continues to provide them with ammunition to use against us. Still haven't demonstrated these lost freedoms. I would really like to know how your rights and or freedoms have been impacted. Mine haven't. No one that I personally know have lost anything. So tell me. I call you a tree hugger because YOUR mentality is to ignore the problem, You've issued NOTHING to suggest a solution other than calling me a coward, I guess the couple of medals I was awarded were also based on lies...too bad I got them under your favorite purgeror, which is a crime. Lets, entertain the lib strategy of "run away like frenchman"(it worked so well for them in the past. We abandon the war on terror, do you think that it will go away? Do you think that they will just have a big ole party and shout "Yeah, we won" and leave it at that? If that were true, why is it that the Russians are having a problem in Georgia? You know the Islamist that are causing chaos there? I don't recall the Russians being in Iraq or Afghanistan. How about Indonisia? They barely have an army, and they are having problems with the "religion of peace". Oh and speaking of our 'friends' the French. Didn't they have nearly 2 weeks of rioting by these peace lovers? weren't there people killed? How about the up roar from a cartoon dipicting their oh so peaceful god? There have even been problems with Muslims in Brazil for crying out loud! And Somolia? And Kenya andd the list goes on and on. The one thing that all of these country have in common is that none of them support the US's strategy to deal with it. How many times do these "great lovers of peace" need to declare Jihad on the west, and on the USA before you will take them seriously? How many building blown up does it take before you will understand that these people HATE us? How Many innocent live must be lost before you will admit that this is a WAR? They just want us dead. Please PLEASE I beg you read more than the Washinton Post, listen to more than Stern or Frankin, Watch other stations besides CNN and really try to understand the onslaught that is before us. You think that there is a better way to wage this war, then put it out there lets discuss it. Otherwise shut the hell up because you just prove my point.
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OK OK Yes I know that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I was quoting Animal House!! I am offended that there are more than 2 people on slashdot who can't draw the coralliation. At least a couple of people got it though. WOW talk about ignorance sucking the intelligence out of the intelligent.
Just like the "lazy/apathetic/weak/ignorant" yeoman farmers of the 1700's which defeated the largest most powerful "professional" army in the world. There is no doubt that crime, violent crime specifically decrease when a given population because armed. My point is that there is no reason why the military and or police forces have the ability to wield fully automatic weapons, grenades, and other weapons capable of inflicting large scale damage, and the populace does not. BTW when has the "'tyrannical government' argument" been debunked? Nearly ever one of the founding fathers correspondence mentions this as one of the prime reasons for including the 2nd in the Bill of Rights?
Let remember that the 2nd Ammendant was intended to provide the people with a method of dealing with tyranical governments, mainly ours. So 'technically' if the governement can have one I should be able to as well. Keeps the playing field balanced. And before some dillhole starts spewing about 'regulated militia', the definition of militia is "any able bodied man between 16 and 65 NOT (repeating this) NOT in service with the federal government" I'd give you a link but I am too lazy to look it up.
Over?!?! It's not over 'til we say it's over. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor??....Hell no!.............
I Like this new stragety...Sell it at a loss and make up for it in volume.
The data on the drive should be recoverable with the right tools...none of which are expensive. There are even some companies that specialize in recovering data from this kind of loss. I have done it several times for customers, it's no biggy if you know how to deal with it.
Yeah, It's hard to listen to eviron*MENTAL*ist when the last 2 winters in cleveland have had record snowfalls and record low temps. Listen people, at one time Greenland was mostly green and had decent farmable land. The Nile river valley was once the most fertile area in the known world, and it became a desert how many years ago, couple thousand? For the sack of the Gods leave the f'ing planet alone. It will change, we will adapt, it's the way it has been since the beginning of friggan time. I can remember when I had just started grade school, the same scientist that were screaming about globe warming today were the same fools who were screaming that the next ice age would happen by 2000.
This is all about money people. These histerical jack-offs need grant money and the only way to get it is by speculating that the doom of all mankind is just around the corner, until proven wrong then it's another pending doom.
Look at it this way; Warmer climates, more CO2, more evaporation, more percipitation, all add up to longer growing seasons. This is a great breakthrough because the planet now needs even more food to support humankind. It's a win win.
Think of this.... In the 40's there was a large contingent of the scientific community that felt that the detonation of atomic devices would trigger a chain reaction that would burn the atmosphere, and once triggered it couldn't be stopped. As global warming really didn't pick up speed until the 60's, maybe they were right, and it just needed time to catalyse. So that proves that GCC is actually caused by the atomic testing in the 40's and 50's.
Or maybe the Mexicans are causing it in a great conspiracy to warm the US so that they can move even more illegals into the US.
I am so sick of hearing this drival....Get off of my rock....
Anyone remember reading about how scientists in the '40's thought that detonating an atomic devices would cause a chain reaction in the atmosphere which would burn the planet to a crisp? What if they were right? What if this chain reaction just needed time to catalyse?
Another though. There is alot more asphalt and concrete on the surface of the planet, sucking up the sun's heat all day. Could these be the cause of global warming? Maybe.
Better yet, why is there even an argument about this. Think about it. Warmer climate, more evaporation, more evaporation more moisture in the atmoshpere. Warmer, more humid, more vegetation growth, more food...
Even if *WE* are the cause of GCC there isn't a whole hell of alot we can do about it now. If we stopped burning stuff, everything I mean, the problem isn't just going to go away. We are one of the most adaptable species on this rock and we will adapt to the new environment.
Or maybe we should start killing each other off in larger numbers so that the environmental impact is less. I say that we start with anyone wearing the color pink....
Great, now that I have finally begun embrace Linux in general, Ubuntu specifically, for general, all around use at home, the friggan frog parliment decides *IT* needs to use it. I am now going to have to ditch my efforts to get off of the Microshaft addition, all because of the damn French. Oh wait...maybe they will give up on their adoption of Ubuntu, they give up on everthing else easy enough.
La mort vers la France!!!
I'm not saying that these scientist did or did not achieve the posted results. I just want to remind everyone that prior October 14, 1947, the speed of sound could not, could never will never be broken. Before testing the first atomic bomb some scientist felt that an atomic detonation would cause a chain reaction that would turn the entire atmosphere into burning vapor. During the early part of the 1900's if you traveled faster than 25 mph it was felt that the skin on your face would be ripped off. Prior to 1492, almost all of Europe felt that if you kept sailing west you would fall off the edge of the world. My point is this, 'barriers' are meant to be overcome. We put limits on things that we don't understand, claiming it is impossible. Nothing is impossible, once you figure it out.
I understand your plight! I am the network manager for a small manufacturing company. I have 50 users, nearly all of whom are above the age of 45. There is ZERO communication at my organization. No one uses email. I have suggested implementing IM or even an collaboration package and the response from 'up on high' is "no one will use it" which is probably true because no one even uses email effectively. Those of us under 40 are almost twice as productive. Another thing that I have noticed is that those of us under 40 tend to share information. This is different from general communication in that we don't tend to horde knowledge. There is no real team building.
Gdisk -dodwipe is a beautiful thing....
If your goal is to keep something out someone elses hands you can make it 100% secure by destroying it (kinda like MAD) before or as they get it. Maybe not the best method but it is 100%, presupposing they can't reconstruct it from the remains.
Originally, a computer was a person who computes or makes computations. A "PC" is a machine that assists a 'computer' with making computations. However, languages evolve, new words are created, old words disappear or thier meanings change all together. While I do agree that a flash memory device with an OSS OS and software is not a computer, *technically* neither is the 'computer' that I am writing and you are reading this post with. So I propose that we rename "PC's" to "Zimborks"
This coming from a man who quotes Red Green in his signature?.....sad....so sad...I'm dissapointed....
DAMN YOU!!!! Damn you and your green blooded logic! It's called sarcasm!!! Besides it CAN be done with paddle wheels if designed properly.
"Might as well try to build a dam at the curb of your street to generate electricity from teh water flowing into the sewers :P"
That idea stinks....but it's crazy enough that it just might work. There is always water flowing in the sewars, hook up a few thousand paddle wheels attached to a generator and you could probably power a few streetlights. Or, maybe a heating coil under the street surface to melt snow and ice.
Maybe it should be...
I have yet to see Duke Nuke'm mentioned...so there...now it's mentioned
Redline, if anyone remembers, was a tremendous FPS circa '98. It had alot of athe features taht modern FPS's are just now incorporating. The graphics were outstanding for the time and aren't too shabby now. I really don't know why the game wasn't more popular and why they (Accolade) didn't follow up with it.
I am glad that your experience has been better than mine. I have had some good experiences working with people with more experience with Linux than I. I am not saying that EVERYONE is a demeaning prick, that my experience (10+years) has shown more of this kind of behavior on most of the forums that I have observed. I've been to several local installfests and had a blast and met some great people. I am also glad to note that you are one of the "good guys", however I do not have the time to spend in IRC's or to wait for mailing lists. Perhaps if I did my opinion would be different. When I have a problem it needs to be solved in no more than 30 minutes or it is unusable my me and my users. Even with 'playing with it' in my spare time, I haven't the patience to spend hours trying to find answers to questions that I shouldn't need to ask.
As to a specific example of a lengthy (3 pages) but really good howto, I will mention VM-Ware. Very recently (last week) I installed Ubuntu and wanted to install VM-Ware Server. I did a Google and found a couple of Howtos for it. Within 10 minutes I was underway with installing it. The Howto I used was very good, however I wouldn't expect any of my users to be able to follow the instructions. So far Ubuntu has been pretty good...so far.
I will also say that the dependacy package installtion process is GREATLY improved over the distos I have tinkered with in the past. Even the last disto of Minerva I played with wasn't bad. I see progress and I am happy that there is some choice. I just don't think Linux of any flavor is quite there yet.
At one of the shops that I managed we tried to make Linux availlible, the problem at that time was driver support. This has improved greatly. Even if it was already setup and ready to go no one wanted those systems. Trying to force feed a population an OS will only frustrate them (ie Windows). Actually if Windows was free do you think that we would be having this discussion?
Now given all of this, have I noticed changes for the better? Hell yeah. Could it replace Windows as the main desktop OS? Maybe. For the last ten years, every year the Linux camp would say "in the next 5 years, Linux will clobber Microsoft" I would always say "lets talk in 5 years" Conclusions? still not there...Yet.
My only problem with Linux, in general, is the hostility of the community based support. If I have a problem with Windows, I can Google it and find a number os repsonses. The overwhelming majority of the threads that are returned have solutions or suggestions that are non-hostile. I Try that with Linux and most of the threads don't have solutions, they have flaming A-holes yelling about how the solution is so simple that a retarded monkey can fix the problem. That tells me that they themselves don't know or that they are retarded monkeys. Eitherway the hostility that the majority of Linux community has towards those who are trying to learn more or figure out a problem with Linux is so discouraging that most "users" are scared off. Until the community and moderators Linux forums actually start encouraging and supporting the unknowing masses Linux as a standard OS will suffer. It also doesn't help that every distro has it's own "standard". Example, Ubuntu uses GZ and Red Hat uses RPM. A given GZ or RPM might not work with the distro you currently are using but might work with others. Additionaly there is also complexity when it comes to installing software/apps/packages that general users do not/can not take time to learn. Windows on the other hand is easy, double click on the executable and bang your done. It doesn't require 3 pages of instructions to do an typical install. In my opinion this is why Linux has had problems taking over as the mainstream in desktop OS.
I hope that the nuclear waste dump that they sketched in on the other side of the moon does explode hurling the moon, with Moonbase Alpha, out of earth orbit and stranding the 311 crewman. I didn't turn out so good in the '70's ya know? The uniforms were tacky too.
It seems to be working for hollywood. A remake is definately over due.
Thank you! I only wish that you would have included your name.
Yes I am a tribalist....MY tribe doesn't cut and run like a coward. My tribe not only understand the meaning of the flag but is willing to bleed, if necessary for it. My tribe understands that there is a group of people on the rock that hate our very existance, who ONLY want to destroy our way of life and the liberal mindset continues to provide them with ammunition to use against us. Still haven't demonstrated these lost freedoms. I would really like to know how your rights and or freedoms have been impacted. Mine haven't. No one that I personally know have lost anything. So tell me. I call you a tree hugger because YOUR mentality is to ignore the problem, You've issued NOTHING to suggest a solution other than calling me a coward, I guess the couple of medals I was awarded were also based on lies...too bad I got them under your favorite purgeror, which is a crime.
Lets, entertain the lib strategy of "run away like frenchman"(it worked so well for them in the past. We abandon the war on terror, do you think that it will go away? Do you think that they will just have a big ole party and shout "Yeah, we won" and leave it at that? If that were true, why is it that the Russians are having a problem in Georgia? You know the Islamist that are causing chaos there? I don't recall the Russians being in Iraq or Afghanistan. How about Indonisia? They barely have an army, and they are having problems with the "religion of peace". Oh and speaking of our 'friends' the French. Didn't they have nearly 2 weeks of rioting by these peace lovers? weren't there people killed? How about the up roar from a cartoon dipicting their oh so peaceful god? There have even been problems with Muslims in Brazil for crying out loud! And Somolia? And Kenya andd the list goes on and on.
The one thing that all of these country have in common is that none of them support the US's strategy to deal with it.
How many times do these "great lovers of peace" need to declare Jihad on the west, and on the USA before you will take them seriously? How many building blown up does it take before you will understand that these people HATE us? How Many innocent live must be lost before you will admit that this is a WAR? They just want us dead.
Please PLEASE I beg you read more than the Washinton Post, listen to more than Stern or Frankin, Watch other stations besides CNN and really try to understand the onslaught that is before us. You think that there is a better way to wage this war, then put it out there lets discuss it. Otherwise shut the hell up because you just prove my point.