Also worth noting that I wouldn't consider someone a real DJ if they couldn't use the 1s and 2s.

Ta,

Chris.

I sold a domain that I wasn't using to a company and did rather well out of it.

What is their offer, and what is the domain name? It's the only way to know if it's a good deal or not.

Ta,

Chris.

The iPod touch uses solid state storage, so there is no drive head to bounce around.

Running with it should be fine.

All about Ableton Live.

It's what all the pros use.

Hello.

Looks like you want to use column aliases and sub-queries.

Post your table structure and I'll whip you up a query.

Ta,

Chris.

Trying to describe discordianism isn't easy.

Is it a religion disguised as a joke, or a joke disguised as a religion?

Discordians don't worship Eris, they just acknowledge the importance of chaos.

"Hail Eris" - are just words...

"Discordianism" - is just a word.

It's not about being crazy, spouting bollocks about "five tons of flax" or waving your arms around going "gobble gobble gobble" (although your free to do so if you wish).

It is just recommended that you don't take things too seriously, that somebody viewing something through different eyes as yourself will see it as completely different... and both are true and false.

Most importantly, just make you own god damn mind up. Books are just words (Bible / Principia Discordia included) words mean nothing, it is just the interpretation of the words that is important.

Of course, I am absolutely wrong... This is all false.

I eat hot dog buns on a Friday, and it makes me no more or less of a Discordian than Richard T. Filth.

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Domains cost money for a good reason.

Imagine how difficult it would be buying an unused domain if they were available for free.

Can't argue with that, but seeing as he has committed to an exit strategy for Iraq, and signed and order closing Gitmo, I am hopeful that he is different.

Don't worry, I still hold my normal overly paranoid levels of scepticism.



Don't mistake socialism for communism.

Also, look at the mess your unregulated financial institutions got us all in to. If that is how the behave, then you do need government involvement. They had their chance.



A great place to get economic advice, from a man you don't know in a shop, who tells you that you need to buy what he is selling.

There is a lot of talk about what will be, and personally I don't think new currencies and a new world order will happen.

You'd be as likely to see the protocols of the Elders of Zion being initiated, or the Bavarian Illuminati fighting it out with dolphins.

Seeing as you now seem to have a decent president and sensible topics are being debated, I'd say to your fellow Patriots... "Wait and see".

Who knows, if Barack is sensible, maybe you won't be over taken as a world super power by China.

(Sensible topics are (IMO): exit strategy for Iraq, closing GitMo, universal healthcare, etc. etc.)

Fnord

Wow, reading these comments meant I wasn't shocked by reading this:

At least a simple description of the problem in the subject is more useful that writing "help".

And.. if someone doesn't notice that their computer says "Starting Windows XP" when it's booting up, then I fear there might be no helping them!

Ta,

Chris.

There is a GUI for compiling. My comment was with reference to someone complaining about compiling programs. You took it out of context.

Linux is completely capable of being operated without ever needing the command line.

As I said before, Windows teaches users bad habits, once you are out of those habits, computing in general will be a lot better for you (even using Windows).

My god daughter who is 12 is very capable of using Linux, she installed an MSN client (aMSN), and got the webcam working and the first I knew of it was when she started a chat with me. No drama and no CLI used.

She is by no means a computer genius (although she is well ahead of her class in computing so much so that her tutor commented on it as being 'incredible').

She knows about the concepts of computing (files, folders, peripherals etc) and GUIs (WIMP - Windows Icons Menus and Pointers), really simple stuff, but she is not used to the "Microsoft Way", so she can adapt.

In her school they teach the kids how to use Microsoft Office, and later on they use Macs, they never touch Linux. Yet by knowing and using Linux, she is streets ahead of the rest of her class when using Microsoft products.

Her comment on Linux is "I like the penguin, I think he's cute".
She prefers Macs because she thinks they are cooler, and she thinks Windows is stupid.
I've never told her what OS she can run (she can choose (she has a Mac Mini which runs Ubuntu, but she knows she can choose between Windows, OS X and Linux)), and I don't 'coach' her with computing.

Ta,

Chris.

Ummmm I use a Mac day to day, and I would not consider myself a dummy.

What you are talking about it changing the look and feel, hardly technical stuff.

"Look ma, I done made my task bar red."

With a Mac you can customise almost everything to do with the look and feel, aside from the three buttons on every window title (you can have colours or grey (graphite).

As OSX is Unix based, it is a lot lot more powerful than windows for tinkers.

You can run X11 and most Unix / Linux apps through MacPorts. You can run services properly. There are proper permissions. You can use bash scripts and cron jobs. The list goes on and on.

I use Windows for Testing, Mac for day to day stuff and Linux for my servers (and some BSD).

Although my heart solely rests with Linux, I still resent being called a dummy for choosing to use a Mac for my day to day computing.

Ta,

Chris.

Well that's ironic.

It's all about escalation; cops carry guns; so crooks need to carry guns; which means civilians need to carry guns which means crooks need to carry bigger guns etc.

It's a slippery slope.

I'm from the UK however, where we are just beginning to see the results of the first level of escalation. It's not pretty.

As I understand the 'right to bear' arms is so the American population can protect itself from a tyrannical government. A somewhat moot point now, as the American population over throwing their government is very very unlikely to happen.

Ta,

Chris.

REAL GUI!??! Gnome has a far superior GUI to Windows XP / Vista! By superior I mean: more consistent, more intuitive, easier to extend and easier to learn.

If your used to the M$ GUI then there will be a learning curve as you get out of the bad habits you have been taught by M$.

There is also KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox and Enlightenment. Choose what works best for you.

Get out of the bad habits you have learn by using M$ and then you have something not many M$ users are used to... Choice!

Also, there are many many many distros where you never ever have to compile anything (Ubuntu included). I know loads of people who happily use Linux and don't even know what compiling is.

Even so, with Automake compiling some software is much easier. Although it is normally a case of:
./configure
make
make install

Which doesn't look too hard to me (although I've been using *nix variations for years, and cut my teeth on *nix before I'd even seen Windows).


Ta,

Chris.

Caves weren't broke, yet we live in houses.

We need (as a race) to progress, although I fear we are progressing in the wrong direction at the moment.

And Windows XP is very very broken!

The > symbol means greater than (with regards to computing). I was saying you had more than 1GB or RAM (which as you say, is 2GB).

How do you know your memory is fine? What program / system did you use to test it?

Whenever I read BSD, I assume people mean the OS. I guess I'm lucky to have to rarely use Windows, and when I do I just its in a VM, so if it crashes I just restore a snap shot.

Ta,

Chris.

Just noticed you said in the BSD, not in BSD (implying you run a variant of BSD).

Sorry, I read your post too quickly.

Either way, download and burn an ISO of any flavour of Linux, choose memory test from GRUB and post the results.

Ta,

Chris.