Re:Compiling distros is for distro maintainers
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All of your examples are examples of a need unfulfilled by regular distros. Re-read my post: it has nothing to do with any of the stuff you've angirly bashed into your keyboard.
Please learn to use your brain. If your brain is unaccustomed to being used, (as I strongly suspect in your case) you may find that it hurts the first few times you attempt to use it...however in time, you may also find that you actually enjoy doing so. You will notice other benefits as well; namely that use of your brain will allow you to avoid engaging in stupid, irrational, destructive behaviour or adherence to the kinds of ideas which tend to cause such behaviour.
Compiling distros is for distro maintainers
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Compiling distros is for distro maintainers and people who can't find a distro for what they need. Gentoo's userbase should be much smaller than it is in light of that. Conclusion: There are a lot of idiots using Gentoo
Firefox extensions? What a fucking joke. Seriously, if this is the kind of shit we're going to have now, OSTG may as well shut Slashdot down and just tell the editors to go create Digg accounts.
I have a whole great big rant about how the upcoming generation sucks far more than most
Let me guess:
Needless obsession with "realistic" graphics
Market saturated by cookie-cutter sequels, remakes and franchises
Too little focus on fun
Fear of innovation
Games now cost a fortune to make
A bunch of other stuff
I bet I have the same rant as you.
but it just makes me sound like an old man
It certainly does. I showed my cousin our old Amstrad CPC464 the other day. He was not impressed by the tape deck, the five minute loading times, or the simplistic gameplay. I think there's a happy medium though, somewhere around the SNES era.
How is it illogical? He doesn't want ads in his games, so he's going to vote with his wallet. Makes sense to me, though I doubt I'd go as far. Whether or not adverts interfere with enjoyment is subjective. You can't just tell him that adverts in videogames don't bother him. It doesn't work like that.
And why do you think he's a hypocrite? There is no evidence of this. None. What the hell?
This kind of thing is much less of a concern after removing Windows' network drivers, unplugging the network cable, and configuring the router to lock the MAC address out of the internet completely.
Unfortunately, I've gotten myself into a bit of online gaming lately, so I can't do any of that any more.
It is a dark time for the rebellion. Although the TCO study has been destroyed, Imperial patents have driven the rebel forces from their base and pursued them across the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded Imperial Lawsuit, a group of freedom fighters led by Richard Stallman has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of en.opensuse.org.
The evil Lord Ballmer, obsessed with finding young Stallman, has dispatched thousands of remote lawyers into the far reaches of space...
Hacker A very, very naughty boy who does wicked, wicked things to other peoples' computers, and brags about it on websites with black backgrounds and green text. Used to mean programmer, but doesn't any more. The old meaning is still used by old programmers living in the past, and by new programmers wishing to associate themselves with both programmers and naughty boys simultaneously. Nobody who calls themselves a "hacker" or refers to their activities as "hacking" is worth any of your time or money, no matter whether their surname is "Stallman" or "Mitnick".
Cracker A word invented by programmers who liked calling themselves hackers, didn't want to lose the term to the naughty boys, and thought that if they just pulled a new word out of their arse, people would gladly learn it and use it. Finally took its last breath when black Americans began to use it as a counterpart to the derogatory word "nigger". Nobody (nobody) calls themselves a "cracker" or refers to their activities as "cracking".
I suspect that this might all turn out to be an accidental backronym though, owing its existence only to the fact that most UNIX abbreviations stand for something.
I don't remember if they said what would happen if I didn't delete the file (which I did, I'm not going to stick my neck out for the principle of it)
And a jolly good thing you did, too. Campus network admins can tap into your computer's mainframe using soviet hacker programs, hack your files right out from under your C drive, and even report their findings to Universal Studios.
I wouldn't be surprised if the RIAA is doing this too - intercepting communications out of your friendly campus and then telling the campus to enforce their restrictions. Way to scare your customers. How do they stay in business?
If by "intercept" you mean "logging IPs using a given torrent", and by "their restrictions" you mean "US copyright law", and by "customers" you mean "pirates", then yes, the RIAA is probably doing that too.
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Is that "why so much bitching?" question directed at me? That would be very strange, because if you look at my comment I'm actually complaining about the bitchiness of Raymond and Cox. They're the ones making trouble in the neighbourhood, not me. They get in one little fight and my mom got scared and said "you're movin' with your auntie and your uncle in Bel Air". I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare. But I thought "nah forget it", "yo homes" to bel-air". I pulled up to a house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby "yo homes, smell ya later". Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
Maybe it is time the term "open source" also did the decent thing and died out with you.
Sure, ESR's comment was fairly divisive, but why pour more fuel on the fire? This was divisive enough as a Fedora vs Ubuntu flamewar. Now it's Open Source versus Free Software. And Alan Cox just told Eric Raymond to go and die.
Can you imagine Bill Gates telling Steve Jobs to go screw himself? In fact, I just recently saw some photos of those two hanging out at some social function, chatting and getting along fine. Now my head is filled with the image of Gates and Jobs living it up and having a laugh, with Cox and Raymond hunched over their computers in the background banging out enraged emails to one another.
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All of your examples are examples of a need unfulfilled by regular distros. Re-read my post: it has nothing to do with any of the stuff you've angirly bashed into your keyboard.
Please learn to use your brain. If your brain is unaccustomed to being used, (as I strongly suspect in your case) you may find that it hurts the first few times you attempt to use it...however in time, you may also find that you actually enjoy doing so. You will notice other benefits as well; namely that use of your brain will allow you to avoid engaging in stupid, irrational, destructive behaviour or adherence to the kinds of ideas which tend to cause such behaviour.
Compiling distros is for distro maintainers and people who can't find a distro for what they need. Gentoo's userbase should be much smaller than it is in light of that.
Conclusion: There are a lot of idiots using Gentoo
Firefox extensions? What a fucking joke. Seriously, if this is the kind of shit we're going to have now, OSTG may as well shut Slashdot down and just tell the editors to go create Digg accounts.
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I bet I have the same rant as you.
It certainly does. I showed my cousin our old Amstrad CPC464 the other day. He was not impressed by the tape deck, the five minute loading times, or the simplistic gameplay. I think there's a happy medium though, somewhere around the SNES era.How is it illogical? He doesn't want ads in his games, so he's going to vote with his wallet. Makes sense to me, though I doubt I'd go as far. Whether or not adverts interfere with enjoyment is subjective. You can't just tell him that adverts in videogames don't bother him. It doesn't work like that.
And why do you think he's a hypocrite? There is no evidence of this. None. What the hell?
Seems that every day, another piece of news shows up telling me that I got out of console gaming at exactly the right time.
This generation just gets more underwhelming by the minute.
This kind of thing is much less of a concern after removing Windows' network drivers, unplugging the network cable, and configuring the router to lock the MAC address out of the internet completely.
Unfortunately, I've gotten myself into a bit of online gaming lately, so I can't do any of that any more.
If it's any help, the post was intended as a satirisation of the great-grandparent's phrase "evil empire".
It is a dark time for the rebellion. Although the TCO study has been destroyed, Imperial patents have driven the rebel forces from their base and pursued them across the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded Imperial Lawsuit, a group of freedom fighters led by Richard Stallman has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of en.opensuse.org.
The evil Lord Ballmer, obsessed with finding young Stallman, has dispatched thousands of remote lawyers into the far reaches of space...
Internet disease is the single most common disease afflicting teenage girls in North America.
That was the stupidest thing I've read on the internet so far today. And I just got here from Hal Turner's website, so you had some stiff competition.
A very, very naughty boy who does wicked, wicked things to other peoples' computers, and brags about it on websites with black backgrounds and green text. Used to mean programmer, but doesn't any more. The old meaning is still used by old programmers living in the past, and by new programmers wishing to associate themselves with both programmers and naughty boys simultaneously. Nobody who calls themselves a "hacker" or refers to their activities as "hacking" is worth any of your time or money, no matter whether their surname is "Stallman" or "Mitnick".
A word invented by programmers who liked calling themselves hackers, didn't want to lose the term to the naughty boys, and thought that if they just pulled a new word out of their arse, people would gladly learn it and use it. Finally took its last breath when black Americans began to use it as a counterpart to the derogatory word "nigger". Nobody (nobody) calls themselves a "cracker" or refers to their activities as "cracking".
Get a brain, moran.
Environment Tool Configuration?
I suspect that this might all turn out to be an accidental backronym though, owing its existence only to the fact that most UNIX abbreviations stand for something.
In this room sit two very different computers:
I still love using that Thinkpad, because it hardly even needs a fan, whereas the desktop is practically heating the room.
Just thinking about it makes me want to sell my desktop on ebay and use the money to stock up on old Thinkpads to save for the future.
And a jolly good thing you did, too. Campus network admins can tap into your computer's mainframe using soviet hacker programs, hack your files right out from under your C drive, and even report their findings to Universal Studios.
If by "intercept" you mean "logging IPs using a given torrent", and by "their restrictions" you mean "US copyright law", and by "customers" you mean "pirates", then yes, the RIAA is probably doing that too.Do YOU have illegally stolen music files on YOUR computer? It's more likely than you think! If you do, then our new discount lawsuits could be for you!
Our patented lawsuit technology gives you a quick, easy settlement with no fuss. Order now and we'll even throw in this fantastic desk tidy. That's right: a discount lawsuit AND a desk tidy. All for the low one-time sum of 39.99
Call now, and get your George Foreman RIAA family discount lawsuit settlement. We accept all major credit cards. Get your settlement now and pay nothing for six months. SIX MONTHS!
Se habla español.
"Seconded. But sadly for everything in the known universe, ethical values don't seem to matter that much."
We can keep doing this all day if you lot don't stop being so half-arsed about it.
Forget Jake, it's Chinatown.
You replied to yourself. Seems like a likely kind of post to automatically mod-down.
Because what we're asking for is to point them to Linux kernel source code, not the other way around.
Is that "why so much bitching?" question directed at me? That would be very strange, because if you look at my comment I'm actually complaining about the bitchiness of Raymond and Cox. They're the ones making trouble in the neighbourhood, not me. They get in one little fight and my mom got scared and said "you're movin' with your auntie and your uncle in Bel Air". I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare. But I thought "nah forget it", "yo homes" to bel-air". I pulled up to a house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby "yo homes, smell ya later". Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
Here is part of Cox's response:
Sure, ESR's comment was fairly divisive, but why pour more fuel on the fire? This was divisive enough as a Fedora vs Ubuntu flamewar. Now it's Open Source versus Free Software. And Alan Cox just told Eric Raymond to go and die.
Can you imagine Bill Gates telling Steve Jobs to go screw himself? In fact, I just recently saw some photos of those two hanging out at some social function, chatting and getting along fine. Now my head is filled with the image of Gates and Jobs living it up and having a laugh, with Cox and Raymond hunched over their computers in the background banging out enraged emails to one another.
We can be a fucking embarrassing bunch at times.
You fool! You foolish fool! Did you learn NOTHING from Jurassic Park?