Looks like you're using Windows/Mac, so by now you should be used to installing codecs and parasiteware (quicktime/realplayer) every 5 minutes. Quit whining.
I was messing around with an AM radio near my PC just 2 hours ago trying to get a useful signal. I noticed something funny going on - every time I moved the mouse making its LED light up, the radio got a strong buzzing noise until the LED powered down again. It's not even a wireless mouse.
I don't get where they pulled that "web fonts don't kern" from. I can see the kerning differences between Vera Sans and DejaVu Sans in my browser, even though they use identical letter shapes. Which one looks better is largely a matter of opinion, though I like the way DejaVu has funny spacing between T and small letters.
Just as an example, chances are near zero that you'd ever hear this sort of complaint about children being exposed to videos of some middle eastern suicide bomber exploding in a shower of gore, even on the 6pm news. The world has some seriously fucked up priorities.
I would use the hosts file thing but then my webserver logs get filled with urlspam and 404 errors. I really wish there was an IP range reserved for blackhole routing stuff.
...and their recently announced "serious competition" to nv/ati.
nVidia likes to use their blob drivers to force a hardware upgrade treadmill, by dropping support for older cards at the same time they implement features. The "open source" driver is an insult - last time I tried it it couldn't even do the 2D stuff correctly. ATi cards aren't much better. ATi's software is a joke and I wouldn't touch it if they paid me to take the hardware. The open driver on my 9250 works, but having to choose between a usable X desktop or an unusably slow GLX desktop is just stupid. The DRI site claims they're working on this issue, but from what I've seen on their site development moves at a geological pace. I've also got a few Matrox cards lying around, but nobody cares about those in a desktop PC anyway.
Sarcasm aside, I noticed even with someone else's "legit" copy (I wouldn't call sony a legitimate business any more) on their DVD player that could play it, there was an extremely annoying faint rectangular pattern moving from right to left across the screen almost all the time. Anyone else noticed it?
2) DRM crap? I bet you don't even have a bluray or HDDVD drive in the first place. Hell, I bet you torrent all of your movies, so you shouldn't be complaining. Vista doesn't DRM everything. You can still watch your torrented movies (it's the only way to get decent HD rips anyhow)
Perhaps he owns an nVidia or ATi graphics card, and plays games. Absurd as it seems, he might even own a sound card newer than a SoundBlaster16 that can play 2 sounds in hardware!!
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Or Apple's Quicktime software, like many other badly-written windows apps with something to hide, is using a device driver to do its dirty work.
The word he was using could also be "poopielepers". Hard to tell when he misspells it with 100% consistency.
Looks like you're using Windows/Mac, so by now you should be used to installing codecs and parasiteware (quicktime/realplayer) every 5 minutes. Quit whining.
"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."
Let's see how long it takes before he starts whining that nobody gives him any attention whatsoever.
I was messing around with an AM radio near my PC just 2 hours ago trying to get a useful signal. I noticed something funny going on - every time I moved the mouse making its LED light up, the radio got a strong buzzing noise until the LED powered down again. It's not even a wireless mouse.
Ouch.
Or maybe he has the new directors in his pocket, so no longer needs to do publicity stunts.
Interesting suggestion but I can't really do that, since links/elinks won't like it much.
I don't get where they pulled that "web fonts don't kern" from. I can see the kerning differences between Vera Sans and DejaVu Sans in my browser, even though they use identical letter shapes.
Which one looks better is largely a matter of opinion, though I like the way DejaVu has funny spacing between T and small letters.
Plan 9 is an OS based entirely on files. *nix is not. `ls /dev | grep eth0` for an example.
Just as an example, chances are near zero that you'd ever hear this sort of complaint about children being exposed to videos of some middle eastern suicide bomber exploding in a shower of gore, even on the 6pm news.
The world has some seriously fucked up priorities.
...I use an XHTML mime-type on all my pages.
"Without partitioning"? What are you trying to say, that db2/Oracle doesn't have such a basic feature?
I would use the hosts file thing but then my webserver logs get filled with urlspam and 404 errors. I really wish there was an IP range reserved for blackhole routing stuff.
Er, what was "VISTA" the acronym for again?
...and their recently announced "serious competition" to nv/ati.
nVidia likes to use their blob drivers to force a hardware upgrade treadmill, by dropping support for older cards at the same time they implement features. The "open source" driver is an insult - last time I tried it it couldn't even do the 2D stuff correctly.
ATi cards aren't much better. ATi's software is a joke and I wouldn't touch it if they paid me to take the hardware. The open driver on my 9250 works, but having to choose between a usable X desktop or an unusably slow GLX desktop is just stupid. The DRI site claims they're working on this issue, but from what I've seen on their site development moves at a geological pace.
I've also got a few Matrox cards lying around, but nobody cares about those in a desktop PC anyway.
Apple *does* have phase-changing RAM... it changes from solid to smoke, you'll only see it in certain laptops with sony batteries though
I know it's still stupid having to do it in the first place, but couldn't you just use an internal drive with a PATA-to-SATA connector?
Sorry, but 3 should be "?????", unless Nintendo released a linux dev kit for free without anyone noticing.
http://bittorrent.com/
Sarcasm aside, I noticed even with someone else's "legit" copy (I wouldn't call sony a legitimate business any more) on their DVD player that could play it, there was an extremely annoying faint rectangular pattern moving from right to left across the screen almost all the time. Anyone else noticed it?
Perhaps he owns an nVidia or ATi graphics card, and plays games. Absurd as it seems, he might even own a sound card newer than a SoundBlaster16 that can play 2 sounds in hardware!!
Not any more with Vista.
Both the links to their "public support forum" and wiki bring up a HTTP password prompt.
OpenBSD had an remote exploit in the IPv6 stack a few weeks ago, does that make it worthless for security too?
ZFS is to disks what Pac-man is to dots. Run out of space? Feed it another block device.
Just for fun, try this command as root: /proc/acpi/dsdt | grep Microsoft
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