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[jimblah]

Various issues with Linux installs, even Ubuntu:

I used to wonder why a distro would issue a major release with annoying little bugs or quirks still present. I've convinced myself they do it on purpose to "get the party started." I believe Linux is what you make it, not what's handed to you. To the wrong person it's a crappy Desktop OS. To me its fertilizer for the brain. For instance I'm maxing out the RAM on my board this month so I can experiment with Ogla client and wine from a two gig ramdrive mounted to a folder in my home directory.

 

[fireballs619]

I used to wonder why a distro would issue a major release with annoying little bugs or quirks still present. I've convinced myself they do it on purpose to "get the party started." I believe Linux is what you make it, not what's handed to you. To the wrong person it's a crappy Desktop OS. To me its fertilizer for the brain. For instance I'm maxing out the RAM on my board this month so I can experiment with Ogla client and wine from a two gig ramdrive mounted to a folder in my home directory.

And now, for something completely different...

So, y'all wanna hear a joke? Why'd the portabello go to the party?

 

[Artlav]

I used to wonder why a distro would issue a major release with annoying little bugs or quirks still present. I've convinced myself they do it on purpose to "get the party started."

Sure sounds convincing. I've been trying to set up the cross-build environment for OpenWRT for a few days now - not only the release lacks both files and configs, and SVN lacks lacking bugs, but the default system is compiled in such a way that recompilation is wanted.

Sounds like a good way to filter out people without problem solving drive.

 

[Spacethingy]

Why'd the portabello go to the party?

I have no idea. Why?
________

What do you call a man with 1000 electron volts on his head?

 

[Carmen A]

Originally Posted by fireballs619
Why'd the portabello go to the party?

To see his friend the portapotty

 

[Lucy]

Today's activity; Distracting myself from dental pain by spending inordinate amounts of cash on hardware upgrades.

Unpacking. New graphics card and new power supply to feed it.

Close up of boxes... we like boxes...

And the other box.

Power supply. New 800W supply with the requisite PCI-E connections (Which my old PSU didn't have).

I like these cable cover things. Interesting texture on them.

Comparison of cards; Card going in (top) - Geforce GTX 560 Ti vs card coming out (Bottom) - Geforce 8600 GT.

Windows likes my new card too - benchmark results for graphics jumped from 4.1 to 7.5

 

[Urwumpe]

Lol I like the self closing box

A classical Claude Shannon, it was exhibited lately in the Paderborn computer museum. He invented a lot of such fun machines, aside of his famous serious work.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Claude_Shannon

 

[Spacethingy]

Hope you feel better soon Xyon...

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Me:
What do you call a man with 1000 electron volts on his head?

Kev.

 

[Artlav]

Random:

 

[FordPrefect]

I want to be young again!

...oh please let me be young again!

Today at work, while washing my hands in the bathroom, looking up into the mirror, it dawned on me like never before. It all of a sudden struck me out of nowhere.
I am no longer 22 years or 25 or 27 years old. No more a twen or even a teenager. No. Time has passed. As it always does. Time is always moving. Advancing. But it felt like time has left me behind.
The realization was so strong, that I felt a lump in my throat right the next moment. How could it happen, I wondered. How the hell did that happen?
I don't exactly feel older than ten years of fifteen years ago, but looking into my mirrored me... I realized I have aged. Panic.
All the missed chances, all the missed dates with gorgeous women. Gone? There's no way to return. Is this the midlife crisis? The feeling was so overwhelming this afternoon, that I needed a few minutes to calm down. Calm down again. Then, walking back to my office, I put on my every day happiness smile when colleagues crossed my path. No one realized what kind of emotional earthquake I had just gone through. Nor will I tell anybody about it. (Except the fine group of my fellow Orbinauts.)
Meanwhile, now, while writing this, my heart has cooled down again. Ratio (or something close to that, LOL) has come back. Phew.
Yeah, this afternoon, I wanted to be a twen again. With my little wisdom of today. That would be great, wouldn't it?

Life sometimes, is a strange thing.

Please, dear universe. Don't leave me behind.

 

[DanM]

I don't have school tomorrow. Gotta love extreme blizzards!

 

[Urwumpe]

I don't have school tomorrow. Gotta love extreme blizzards!

In a few years, you will hate them, because extreme blizzards are no excuse for not going to work. :lol:

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LOL, the full name of the German Independent Physician Network MEZIS is a nice pun Heinlein: "I pay my own lunch" (They are refusing cooperations with pharmaceutical companies in protest against the direct corruption happening in the other physician networks).

 

[Carmen A]

I want to be young again!

...oh please let me be young again!

Today at work, while washing my hands in the bathroom, looking up into the mirror, it dawned on me like never before. It all of a sudden struck me out of nowhere.
I am no longer 22 years or 25 or 27 years old. No more a twen or even a teenager. No. Time has passed. As it always does. Time is always moving. Advancing. But it felt like time has left me behind.
The realization was so strong, that I felt a lump in my throat right the next moment. How could it happen, I wondered. How the hell did that happen?
I don't exactly feel older than ten years of fifteen years ago, but looking into my mirrored me... I realized I have aged. Panic.
All the missed chances, all the missed dates with gorgeous women. Gone? There's no way to return. Is this the midlife crisis? The feeling was so overwhelming this afternoon, that I needed a few minutes to calm down. Calm down again. Then, walking back to my office, I put on my every day happiness smile when colleagues crossed my path. No one realized what kind of emotional earthquake I had just gone through. Nor will I tell anybody about it. (Except the fine group of my fellow Orbinauts.)
Meanwhile, now, while writing this, my heart has cooled down again. Ratio (or something close to that, LOL) has come back. Phew.
Yeah, this afternoon, I wanted to be a twen again. With my little wisdom of today. That would be great, wouldn't it?

Life sometimes, is a strange thing.

Please, dear universe. Don't leave me behind.

Lol I do NOT like being young. Swap places? :3

 

[Izack]

Lol I do NOT like being young. Swap places? :3

Eh? Seriously? It can't be all that bad... :lol:

 

[DanM]

My power has been going on and off for a few seconds at a time. It's been gone for 15 minutes now...

 

[Spacethingy]

Epic quote of the day from my maths lecturer:

Please don't use horizontal gravity, it upsets me.

 

[Carmen A]

All keyboard fliers should get a HOTAS setup. They're cheap nowadays

 

[marooder86]

All keyboard fliers should get a HOTAS setup. They're cheap nowadays

Some of them still cost a bit. But, yes there are other relatively cheap one and worth to buy, cause there is much more fun controlling planes or spacecrafts with them.

 

[Dambuster]

Well I have a HOTAS, but it's in the back of my grandmother's car in the USA. Plus, if you fly with a trackpad, it makes you sound uber-skilled XD

 

[Wishbone]

Random quote from the law-naming habits in D.C: Flood Hazard Area Control Act. Please don't abbreviate to an acronym...