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[The Zero Blog] Re: Symphony of Science

Dave7F — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:00:04 -0700

Billions and billions of turtlenecks. (too obvious?)

[The Zero Blog] Re: How To Pick Up Women

The Yooper — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:27:14 -0700

[The Zero Blog] Re: Symphony of Science

The Yooper — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:24:49 -0700

With his corduroy jacket and turtlenecks, Carl was the height of nerd chic, what?

[The Zero Blog] Re: How To Pick Up Women

Dave7F — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:18:19 -0700

[The Zero Blog] Re: Symphony of Science

Dave7F — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:51:47 -0700

Very cool. Thanks.

[The Zero Blog] Re: How To Pick Up Women

R.Bucky — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:21:53 -0700

A joke only a Geek would understand... I love it!

[The Zero Blog] Re: How To Pick Up Women

bixter_baxter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:39:16 -0700

Is that a raid card in my pants or is it time for a distribution upgrade?

[Beginner's Questions & Answers] Re: Linux Mint 8 (Ubuntu Karmic) SABnzbd+ Install and Configuration Guide

bixter_baxter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:36:49 -0700

"I hear some wierd dialtone when I turn the PC on, cuz this shit is off the hook." My grandma after I asked her how she liked her new OS.

A year or so ago, she likes how simple it is.

[Beginner's Questions & Answers] Re: Linux Mint 8 (Ubuntu Karmic) SABnzbd+ Install and Configuration Guide

ainer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:56:53 -0700

I have moved and updated my guide at my website: http://www.ainer.org/.

Direct link: http://www.ainer.org/?p=94

[The Zero Blog] Symphony of Science

ainer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:54:59 -0700

If you guys haven't seen this, do.

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

[The Zero Blog] Re: How To Pick Up Women

Chuck — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:24:17 -0700

Nard-boy rules...

[The Zero Blog] How To Pick Up Women

Chuck — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:14:44 -0700

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

bixter_baxter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:09:21 -0700

The people need to wake up and smell the [MS Coffee].

M$ spying (Creating back doors or programs to subvert their own security without warning the end user.) is the most unethical and unprofessional SALES TACTIC I have ever encountered. It's quite obvious to anyone who actually understands the importance of cyber-security, yet when it comes to the average consumer, they want something to play mp3's and surf the web. There are few people who concern themselves with the more complicated machinations of their OS.

And when Microsoft sells this to consumers, without making issues that they are aware of apparent to the consumer, they are lying and conducting unfair business.

Linux has no profit motive | Linux kicks ass | Steve Balmer dies of heart attack | M$ dies of Linux attack | lulz | Safer interwebz

You see how this will work out? M$ is swimming against the current but they just don't know it yet.

[Beginner's Questions & Answers] Re: Why so many Linux distributions?

Chuck — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:32:03 -0700

What, no URL?

People are going to burn up a little time no matter what path the choose in a distribution. I say jump in and read anything that says "Linux" on it. The distro is not that important. It's all Linux and free software. The only difference is how hardware and software are configured really. For the most part it's all the same.

Currently I like the "Aqua-Satanic Ritualistic Linux" but that's just me...

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=Satanic+Rituals&btnG=Search

[Linux News Stories] Re: News Web Page

Chuck — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:23:09 -0700

The time lag in RSS is annoying I have found. I mean it's fast but not like Google search results. The issue is google can't be trusted to return the good stuff.

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

Chuck — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:21:00 -0700

M.S. has to make sure people stay afraid of Linux. Soon people will see the have been served junk by Redmond since about day one.

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

anjilslaire — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:16:47 -0700

We are the Deadliest Catch to MS. If someone catches what we've got, its dangerous to Microsoft.

[Beginner's Questions & Answers] Re: Why so many Linux distributions?

bixter_baxter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:46:59 -0700

Ubuntu Marxist Manx is communisms ideal and only distro.

[The Zero Blog] Re: Windows 7 Spying

bixter_baxter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:41:16 -0700

Microsoft; Here, have this grenade! We were going to wait until the release was stable and our stocks were prime to realease it, but it's soooooo awesome we couldn't wait. It will solve all your problems! **no warantee, no refunds.
Consumer; Awesome, my last grenade blew up in my face! Only $250 eh? Well, if it'll solve all my problems then why not?
Microsoft; No trade-backsies!
Consumer; Uh, okay. Wait this grenade has not pin! As soon as I let go of it it's going to blow up in my face. I want my money back!
Microsoft; We know of this issue but the problem only seems to exist with users who broke the ToS and looked at the grenade, if you hadn't looked at it, you wouldn't even notice there was a problem, your a bright fellow you can fix it.
Microsoft Marketing dept.; He bought it he bought it! I can't believe he bought it!

[The Zero Blog] Re: Microsoft exec pitches Internet usage tax to pay for cybersecurity

bixter_baxter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:28:36 -0700

And in the meantime they can tax our phone usage, to pay for those wiretaps.
And let's tax stupidity, to pay for all our wars.
Better yet let's tax Freedom entirely, so we can pay for all of the government "resources" we need to keep us from having freedom.

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

bixter_baxter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:19:53 -0700

Looks like we didn't lose one after all.
(I've seen more people drop off of this site than a crab fishing boat.)

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

anjilslaire — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:43:14 -0700

That's awesome, Dave

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

Dave — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:41:44 -0700

Anji, I work for Lowe's to pay the bills; but I am studying for the Linux+ cert and after I get the funds together for the test, I will be starting either RHCE or LPI-L1 in order to work my way into a Linux admin or teaching spot somewhere.

At 18 I was an in-house programmer and technical editor of a computer magazine that was published in the south Tacoma area. I was released 18months later when the magazine started to downsize due to decreasing readers. I wrote a variable database for them, and because I know assembler language, I helped them crack software and create 'soft-keys' for them. They would then publish these keys in one of their magazines.

I do as much Free Software advocacy as I can with the time I have after work, home, and some recreation. I give my home phone number on all my OlySoft business cards, so I take care of those I have evangelized to about GNU/Linux. So helping with GNU/Linux is a personal thing that I do as my give-back to the community for the use of all the Free Software I enjoy.

I would do community work even if I was not a part of the Free Software movement. I feel the elderly have gotten a progressively shorter end of the stick as our lay-culture has come to view them as expendable, and the neo-capitalist movement has brought many of them to the breaking point for eating or paying rent. As such, one of my current projects is to help out teaching the elderly to use computers so they can stay in touch with their extended family and the world around them.

The South Sound Senior Services is having problems restarting my class for them. It is my understanding that there is a group that is resisting SSSS allowing me to use their computer room to teach the class. Because of this I am now working on getting contacts in another social group that has been treated poorly in the past and hopefully will be working with them soon.

Because of what GNU/Linux and Free Software is, I can provide a service helping them learn to use computers for common things, and at the same time provide an alternative to windows that reduces the cost of their operating system and software to Zero.

[Linux News Stories] Re: Run Linux in EXT3 Rather than EXT4 for Better Performance

yuri — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:42:13 -0700

There is a huge difference in performance during partition check at startup, at least on my laptop. It used to take several minutes on ext3 and only takes around 5 seconds on ext4.

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

anjilslaire — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:48:42 -0700

I'm curious, Dave. What do you do, professionally? Are you in IT, or is linux a personal side thing? Just wondering, and no specifics are needed. You mention support calls & such. I'm just curious what our backgrounds are.

[Linux News Stories] Re: News Web Page

R.Bucky — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:23:44 -0700

I really like FeedOnFeeds. It actually works 99% of the time. Moonmoon aggregator works alright, but it sometimes slow. It might be ugly, but what about an iframe from Google Reader? Also...

http://linux.olyrss.com/

[Linux News Stories] News Web Page

Chuck — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:06:55 -0700

I really want a Linux news web page that updates and is unbiased and not controlled by commercial interests. I have attempted to make my own aggregator and had some luck hacking feeds on feeds but I don't know...

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

Chuck — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:02:45 -0700

Call before 2:50 or after 4PM but no later than 6:00 (gig).

[Local Linux News] Re: Olympia Linux

Dave — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:35:36 -0700

LOLZ. I'll be calling you monday Chuck. I have a support call around noon and will call you after it's done.

[Linux News Stories] Re: Run Linux in EXT3 Rather than EXT4 for Better Performance

Dave — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:34:00 -0700

Google is likely far more interested in the other features of the Ext4 filesystem such as the extremely large files, and ability to de-fragment while hot.

>Most people should have the common sense not to buy based on such a minute performance difference.

Well said Bix.