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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!
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Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
You know, this whole "EXTREME" Bipartisan stuff and Canada has me pretty darn upset.....so I am going to walk away for a bit as to not take it out on any innocent folk here on RF.....or guilty folk too for that matter...
Listened to a old Iron Maiden song last night....my first thought was...you know...Bruce Dickinson is a horrible singer......but my next thought was abort the title 2 Minutes To Midnight which got me thinking about the doomsday clock.....and it hit me....if I convert years to minutes.....I could be about 3 to 6 minutes fro the Scarlet O'Hara clock...except my name isn't Rhett
Listened to a old Iron Maiden song last night....my first thought was...you know...Bruce Dickinson is a horrible singer......but my next thought was abort the title 2 Minutes To Midnight which got me thinking about the doomsday clock.....and it hit me....if I convert years to minutes.....I could be about 3 to 6 minutes fro the Scarlet O'Hara clock...except my name isn't Rhett
@sun rise I have a fondness for your internet presence.
The big error people make with Linux is expecting zero cost. They should expect to pay for some support at least in the beginning, because hunting down answers to questions can be very frustrating. Occasionally there are problems, just like there are problems in other computer systems. Like...when you bring up a terminal and every time you backspace the computer dings. Its all the little things that require looking up and changing.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I have problems figuring out the Windows User Interface and I'll explain how...
Suppose someone has a problem with Windows. They ask me how to "get rid of a bar on the screen". Windows has like 1000 different bars. I'll never know which one.
Whereas Linux problems go more like "What command do I input?" which I can handle better.
Suppose someone has a problem with Windows. They ask me how to "get rid of a bar on the screen". Windows has like 1000 different bars. I'll never know which one.
Whereas Linux problems go more like "What command do I input?" which I can handle better.
Backspace genetates ascii 7 which on a terminal (a machine running linix ix essentially a terminal) is 'bell'
Yes, and that's something people don't know. If they are told its free and then they can't find out how to stop the dinging or how to add a desktop icon or how to make the screen stop turning off every five minutes then they need help.
Yes, most definitely, we had a unix guru, and like many gurus he was worth his weight in gold
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I learned fast when it came to Linux.
I remember when I first used Windows though. I was trying to delete bloatware and I accidentally deleted my sound driver.
I remember when I first used Windows though. I was trying to delete bloatware and I accidentally deleted my sound driver.
Running linux under windows has gotten much easier. "WSL 2" does the job as long as you have a marginally decent PC that allows you to set virtualization in your BIOS. Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10
Before I degenerated, retired and took up recreational posting here, I was one of them - SunOS, Solaris, BSD and some Linux. I read manuals that documented commands and tried them out.
Now I do volunteer IT work but without the high drama of the days of yore.
With computers, the deep need some have to experience frustration can be easily satisfied. A few of us, like me, get frustrated and also get stubborn and even close to the Biblical "heaven and earth may pass away" but I won't give up until I figure out what is going on. If you like to think in astrological terms, I celebrate being a taurus.
I only picked up stuff from watching our techie. I do have some books i keep on a bookshelf in the lounge, they do draw a lot of comment. People just don't expect me to have "the craft of software engineering", "power C", "the java bible", "808x assembly language", mixed in with "Terry Pratchett"
I used to have quite a few tech books. Now my brain has been uploaded to the internet and what's left specializes in searching for answers.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I just realized, Trump's "promised vaccine just in time for election" not only missed the election day date, it was announced a couple days after it was announced Trump lost.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I really, really, REEAALLY want to see Pelosi throw Trump out of the White House like Phil Banks threw Jazzy Jeff out of his house.
I've got my c99 compiler compiling open gl stuff, now. I guess sooner or later I must also learn cmake. cmake is the replacement for autotools, so I don't need to learn autotools; but cmake is quite a challenge. It is the purest essence of make. It, like many other open source tools, is laid out as an initiation rite. If you ask questions your questions will be critiqued, and you will be told to come up with better ones. It is the way.
I used to be able to set up makefiles with little trouble. That skill has left except for traces that can be reactivated at bit if I'm trying to build/install a linux package.
I'm learning make myself, but Cmake is a system for automatically generating make files for multiple end targets and for multiple make generators such as gnumake, nmake, ninja etc. It also makes project files for visual studio. I haven't looked much into it yet, but it looks like to configure it you put special text files into each subdirectory of your source and the cmake script crawls through the tree then spits out make files.