They should be extracting sunbeams from cucumbers. (See J Swift - Gullivers travels)
Hey why not just get hydrogen from Titan, along with all those hydrocarbons it supposedly has.
(see other article in today`s slashdot)
Migod, how do these idiots manage to get tenure? The US university system is corrupt.
Is this why some of those laptops burst spontaneously into flames?
Actually, with hundreds of amps, they'd probably be converting hydrogen to helium, and the battery would be only be a 'trigger'.
At last! The power of the Sun (the REAL Sun)in a laptop!
A cosmonaut with the name Vladimir,
Kept a cageful of gerbils on Mir.
With cardboard tubes and some twine,
He used them one at a time-
An experiment he called "Richard's Gear".
I also noticed that the small Japanese flag attached to the probe was WAVING! LOOK!
Clearly this has been staged, and the dumb Japanese scientists forgot about the breeze!
And please don't quote that charlatan Phil Plaitt ...
He's obviously in on the NASA/Japanese conspiracy!
You'd think after 40 years, these stupid studio guys would learn something!
But, noooo....!
I remember this crappy Office suite from the 1990s (and earlier)
I said then that IBM should stick to hardware and leave the software to MS and others.
Now I can even say "Stay out of hardware too, you dorks!"
(And hardware wasn't even exactly their strong point back in the '60s, '70s and '80s)
Too bad that all the soul-patched ponytailed newbie nerds don't remember bad ol' IBM days. ...the MS of its day, that deserved to die before year 2000.
LOL! Next they'll be announcing that they are "gluing" Apache onto Domino and making it open also.
Die, IBM! DIE!
Migod! Is IBM Dracula? Where is that binary stake?
Yeah, thanx - I've tried to get NDISwrapper going a couple of times but eventually went on to more important work.
The wireless card is an Atheros- they are also notoriously bad with linux.
And yes I must spend more time with Madwifi.
But as I said above, most of Ubuntu seems just fine, other than some key points.
Hmmnn.. it's been a couple of months now; maybe I'll get my trusty dusty old CAT5 cable out and see if there's any new Ubuntu updates!
I suspect if I re-installed Ubuntu, the problems would be cleared up. But reinstall? update?
Gads- I only have a dial here.
OMG! It's AWESOME!
Geez, kid- give it a break!
Act a little cooler- and you could sound like the nerdy punk in that Mac vs MS commercial. (which reminds me- I haven't seen it on TV lately)
Perhaps that's because, alas, the MS nerd married the chick and is busy raising a family, whereas the loquacious Apple guy moved back to Mom's basement.
Four months ago, I bought a laptop with Vista. I quickly configured it, got rid of the Norton/ Dell/ Toshiba 'added-value' Bloatware, installed my own FREE Antivirus & MS Defender, and the box has been running 100% ever since.
Of course, I do the periodic MS updates when suggested. No hassles.
(Oooo! Maybe Bill Gates is spying on me!)
MENUS: Well, of course I immediately configured Vista to look like the W2K 'coke-classic' menu system.
My kids were running it for three weeks before they discovered it was Vista not Win2000.
You're right- the new menus are crappy.
But after installing 7.04 Feisty Faqqer (or whatever it's called) in dual-boot, I discovered that Ubuntu would not support my wireless LAN.
(Please, no ath0 SUDO suggestions- I've tried 'em all; they plainly do not work.)
So I went back to Vista and it's been great.
Currently on my home aqk network I have W2K, XP-pro, Vista and two flavours of Ubuntu.
Edgy Eerdvark (or whatever) is now run on an old Celeron just as a server, to BU data and print. But that's about ALL it is used for.
Don't get me wrong- I LIKE Ubuntu; particularly the price.
But other than price, what does it offer over Vista?
Sorry for the rant, but I get tired of these ponytailed nerds running around with pants that are too short, whining about how great the Mac... uhh, sorry, Linux is.
Shuttleworth has his work cut out for him. I wish him well.
Canadian troops in Afghanistan just purchased several Stinger missiles from the Taliban. (Hey, it was either that or have their heads chopped off, like those Koreans)
These missiles are now back in Canada's North, and ready to shoot down any US robotic intruder.
And this goes for you pesky Danes too!!
I used to be a sys-admin, a sys-op, tech support specialist or whatever. They just threw me in there when no one else knew wtf was going on. And hoped that my job description/title flavour of the month justified it.
But I got a kick about 10-15 year ago when kids started referring to their local geek (and evenhe did too) as a "Sye Sop"
What the heck was a "Sye Sop"? Eventually it dawned on me that they were referring to a sysop.
I also get a kick of the system admin of another company telling me about her "Scow" and "Novel" systems.
Scow? Hmnn I must be falling behind on my tech knowledge. Of course she was referring to S.C.O. and Novell...
I don't get out much in the world anymore; do the newbie Sye-Sops actually pronounce it "Scow" nowadays?;-)
"When usenet dies, the rest of the internet, and civilisation itself, will not live more than 3 years"
-Albert Einstein (just after he made his "bee" statement.
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I HAVE a Macintosh!
wait... ? Maybe I have a LINUX!
In any event, I don't have one of those silly WINDOZE machines!
I AM SAFE, you stoopid WINDOZE users!
Yes they can even be hexadecimal!
Witness mine!
They should be extracting sunbeams from cucumbers. (See J Swift - Gullivers travels) Hey why not just get hydrogen from Titan, along with all those hydrocarbons it supposedly has. (see other article in today`s slashdot) Migod, how do these idiots manage to get tenure? The US university system is corrupt.
"Steve"
Or how about "Billy" ?
BAH!
In Soviet universe, planet-forming-cloud belching overlords swallow YOU!
Damn! Wimmen...
You can't love them, and you can't shoot em in the head.
Turkey cook YOU!
(and don't expect Greece to help!)
Oh-oh...
Guess it's time I changed this tiny sig / tagline!
>> Lipstick on that pig won't get on your collar. Trust me on this.
Why should I trust someone who confesses to such bestial behaviour? (ducks)
Whoa!
HUNDREDS of amps?
Is this why some of those laptops burst spontaneously into flames?
Actually, with hundreds of amps, they'd probably be converting hydrogen to helium, and the battery would be only be a 'trigger'.
At last! The power of the Sun (the REAL Sun)in a laptop!
Hundreds...! My oh my!
Migod, you have the memory of an elephant!
Golly...
I just started to read this thread 'cause I wuz wondering WTF "Veterans' Day" wuz.
Seems I'm no further ahead. Thank goodness I am not an American. Or a "Christian".
You do seem like a barbaric lot... typical "veterans" I s'pose.... tsk-tsk.
Ahhh, Good ol' MIR....!
A cosmonaut with the name Vladimir,
Kept a cageful of gerbils on Mir.
With cardboard tubes and some twine,
He used them one at a time-
An experiment he called "Richard's Gear".
Ahhh... Spoken like a TRUE AMERICAN!
You keep that stars`n`stripes lapel-pin polished, boy!
OMG!
...
I also noticed that the small Japanese flag attached to the probe was WAVING! LOOK!
Clearly this has been staged, and the dumb Japanese scientists forgot about the breeze!
And please don't quote that charlatan Phil Plaitt
He's obviously in on the NASA/Japanese conspiracy!
You'd think after 40 years, these stupid studio guys would learn something!
But, noooo....!
YOU find Soviet Russia!
I remember this crappy Office suite from the 1990s (and earlier)
...the MS of its day, that deserved to die before year 2000.
I said then that IBM should stick to hardware and leave the software to MS and others.
Now I can even say "Stay out of hardware too, you dorks!"
(And hardware wasn't even exactly their strong point back in the '60s, '70s and '80s)
Too bad that all the soul-patched ponytailed newbie nerds don't remember bad ol' IBM days.
LOL! Next they'll be announcing that they are "gluing" Apache onto Domino and making it open also.
Die, IBM! DIE!
Migod! Is IBM Dracula? Where is that binary stake?
Alas, drunken on Pinoqachole again...
Yeah, thanx - I've tried to get NDISwrapper going a couple of times but eventually went on to more important work.
The wireless card is an Atheros- they are also notoriously bad with linux.
And yes I must spend more time with Madwifi.
But as I said above, most of Ubuntu seems just fine, other than some key points.
Hmmnn.. it's been a couple of months now; maybe I'll get my trusty dusty old CAT5 cable out and see if there's any new Ubuntu updates!
I suspect if I re-installed Ubuntu, the problems would be cleared up. But reinstall? update?
Gads- I only have a dial here.
Thanx.
OMG! It's AWESOME!
Geez, kid- give it a break!
Act a little cooler- and you could sound like the nerdy punk in that Mac vs MS commercial. (which reminds me- I haven't seen it on TV lately)
Perhaps that's because, alas, the MS nerd married the chick and is busy raising a family, whereas the loquacious Apple guy moved back to Mom's basement.
Four months ago, I bought a laptop with Vista. I quickly configured it, got rid of the Norton/ Dell/ Toshiba 'added-value' Bloatware, installed my own FREE Antivirus & MS Defender, and the box has been running 100% ever since.
Of course, I do the periodic MS updates when suggested. No hassles.
(Oooo! Maybe Bill Gates is spying on me!)
MENUS: Well, of course I immediately configured Vista to look like the W2K 'coke-classic' menu system.
My kids were running it for three weeks before they discovered it was Vista not Win2000.
You're right- the new menus are crappy.
But after installing 7.04 Feisty Faqqer (or whatever it's called) in dual-boot, I discovered that Ubuntu would not support my wireless LAN.
(Please, no ath0 SUDO suggestions- I've tried 'em all; they plainly do not work.)
So I went back to Vista and it's been great. Currently on my home aqk network I have W2K, XP-pro, Vista and two flavours of Ubuntu.
Edgy Eerdvark (or whatever) is now run on an old Celeron just as a server, to BU data and print. But that's about ALL it is used for.
Don't get me wrong- I LIKE Ubuntu; particularly the price.
But other than price, what does it offer over Vista?
Sorry for the rant, but I get tired of these ponytailed nerds running around with pants that are too short, whining about how great the Mac... uhh, sorry, Linux is.
Shuttleworth has his work cut out for him. I wish him well.
Canadian troops in Afghanistan just purchased several Stinger missiles from the Taliban.
(Hey, it was either that or have their heads chopped off, like those Koreans)
These missiles are now back in Canada's North, and ready to shoot down any US robotic intruder.
And this goes for you pesky Danes too!!
DO YOU GOVERN YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY.
I remain, your most obedient servant,
X'16435934
I used to be a sys-admin, a sys-op, tech support specialist or whatever. They just threw me in there when no one else knew wtf was going on.
;-)
And hoped that my job description/title flavour of the month justified it.
But I got a kick about 10-15 year ago when kids started referring to their local geek (and evenhe did too) as a "Sye Sop"
What the heck was a "Sye Sop"? Eventually it dawned on me that they were referring to a sysop.
I also get a kick of the system admin of another company telling me about her "Scow" and "Novel" systems.
Scow? Hmnn I must be falling behind on my tech knowledge. Of course she was referring to S.C.O. and Novell...
I don't get out much in the world anymore; do the newbie Sye-Sops actually pronounce it "Scow" nowadays?
"When usenet dies, the rest of the internet, and civilisation itself, will not live more than 3 years"
-Albert Einstein (just after he made his "bee" statement.
"If all the coins disappeared from the world tomorrow, human civilisation would collapse within two years".
- Albert Einstein.
And I, for one, would welcome bees as our new overlords.
In Soviet forest, trees breathe YOUR CO2.
Uhhh wait..
O, PUHLEEEASE!
(There. I said it. And probably just lost 100 ml of Testosterone,too!)
But SAY...
Isn't John Wayne's REAL name "Marion"?
I rest my case.
- Eccsad Essemal