neylitalo

cyrixware: That's possibly one of the best and worst jokes I've seen all day.

When someone is asking for clarification on something mentioned in a particular thread, it is definitely not hijacking. Don't be ridiculous. You'd prefer that someone start a new thread, ask their question, and then provide a link to the original thread so everybody knows what's going on? It's only hijacking if someone takes a thread and asks a completely irrelevant question.

I would suggesting getting an AMD 64 X2 if you can afford it - it's a 64 bit dual core, where Intel's Core Duos are 32 bit dual core. There's not a whole lot of 64 bit software in the Windows world, and there are still some rather significant bugs in GNU software when it comes to 64 bit, but it'll eventually get there, and you'll have a lot more processing power.

Ah, fun! I've heard of that, but have never seen it.

Use it as a day-to-day operating system. The GNU operating system (the proper name for the operating system that is most often called Linux) is quite usable, functional, and everything else you ask from an operating system. While it's not as easy to set up and maintain as Windows or Mac OS in most cases and the learning curve is steeper than normal, it's far more secure, you're not restricted to a particular combination of settings, and the number of software programs available for GNU is immense. The GNU operating system is also free, usually in two forms of the word. GNU is always free in the sense that you are free to do whatever you want with it. You can modify the entirety of the program (something you can't do with Windows or Mac OS), you can freely distribute the programs either in the form of their source code or pre-built binary, and the entire world is open to making changes to the operating system. If you want something changed in a program, you can download the source code for the program, make the changes, and re-build it. At that point, you can either just keep the changes to yourself, or you can push them upstream - that is, submit your new code to the maintainers of the program, and see if they'll accept it. GNU is usually also free in the sense that you don't have to pay for it. You can buy some distributions from a store, but you're usually buying documentation, support, or some other service. There isn't much market in selling the actual code, since there is nothing legally preventing your customers from making copies of the CD and distributing it freely. If you're interested in trying GNU as an everyday OS, you might look into Ubuntu for ease of installation, easy dual-boot functionality with existing windows installations, and general ease of use.

If by "it's not free" you mean "you'll have to pay to use it", my guess is that we won't be putting it up. Everything in our collection of code, be it in the forums, code samples, or tutorials, is free to use - reconsider the licensing terms and it would be a possibility; if, of course, the game is any good.

My head hurts.

um... I knew Windows was insecure, but I wasn't aware that it reached that far.

I'd like to note that the practical advantages aren't only related to the back button. It also helps when you have to refresh a page, or in one case I recently encountered, when you have a plain text file modified by a JS script. And sarcasm is difficult to communicate through simple text. There are precious few instances when sarcasm is appropriate, and this is not one of them.

Your posts will still be here, and your username will still be associated with them. And you should be careful what you post on the internet if it has a potential for getting you in trouble with employers.

what i wrote (i didnt post it) something like that... Ahhh, fun with sleep deprivation!

I don't see the value of the question, nor of the information that could be obtained from such a poll. Locked.

Are the logs reflecting suspicious activity? If not, I'd suggest that you just let it go as a curiosity, it's probably not going to hurt you, and it's probably going to just be wasting your time. I get some really weird entries in my access logs; nothing suspicious, but I don't have any links to my server on the web anywhere, so any unsolicited activity is strange. If I were to track them all down, I'd be spending at least an hour every day following them up and making sure they weren't harmful.

I think you just answered your own question. My boss used to say something along the lines of "The reason I got into software development was the glorious absence of a dress code." He's a brilliant programmer and problem-solver, so I assume he's joking, but he's got a point. You can usually be much more relaxed in a programming job than in most other positions.

Dammit, thorpe, I was going to say that!

Practicing up for when she needs to sign checks on Mr. Last Name's bank account

It's getting kinda hard to work with my fingers crossed, but I'll see what I can do

Frontpage uses the IE rendering engine, so what you see in Frontpage, you'll see in IE. I think that's what Frontpage has to do with IE.

I agree with you whole-heartedly, and I guess all we can do is hope that the providers who use SIM cards don't want to spend the cash to convert to a system that doesn't use SIM cards.

Definitely. I'm a programmer, so every thought process I go through equates to a program, for some reason, and I find that figuring out what to do in case X with women is always a massive multi-layered if/elseif/else statement. And it's not uncommon at all to go through the program, get unexpected results, and need to add another condition. One little saying I'm a fan of: If a man is alone in the forest with no women around, is he still wrong?

When you end your questions, the > part comes naturally. For example: How are you doing?> I've done that quite a few times after a long day at work.

I've gotten tired of reasoning with women because of these two. In all but the rarest of occasions, it's almost useless to even try. Mark, I take it you've grown rather cynical of the female species?

I'm guessing your 80GB hard drive failed with an error similar to "Kernel panic: VFS: Could not mount root fs at hd0,0"? That means that the kernel doesn't have support for A) The bus the hard drive is on, meaning a generic (or vendor-specific) IDE driver, or B) The filesystem on the root partition as specified in GRUB. This can be easily fixed by booting a live cd, mounting the hard drive partitions AS WELL AS /dev and /proc as shown below, and chroot'ing into the environment. You can then reconfigure your kernel. You may also have to edit menu.lst to accomodate for differences in partition tables. The commands I promised, assuming your root partition is mounted at /mnt/os: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/os/dev # mount -t proc none /mnt/os/proc

What happens when you go through GRUB? I'm guessing you have (hd0,x) where you need (hd1,x), or vice-versa.

Are you on crack? (no offense) It could just be me, but for whatever reason, it seems to me as if that particular comment is sure to cause offense, regardless of any "disclaimers" you may put at the bottom. And I'm curious why you felt the need to reply to that post; he was clearly asking for people that agreed with him, not people that disagreed with him.