Randomness

[Distracted]

I've got one of those in my kitchen. It's the only plant I haven't killed. I think they're indestructible.

[JadziaKathryn]

No, they're not. I killed one once. It was a case of death by neglect, I'm afraid.

[Entilzha]

How famous people do time http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16272

[Linda]

Is that a bamboo plant or some kind of palm? I have a palm (don't know what kind) that someone gave me. It grew up to the ceiling, with the help of a pole to kept it from bending over - the trunk of it was so noodle like. But it broke off near the base and I thought it was finished. It then grew a new plant up from the roots, which is now about half as tall as me. It's the plant with no backbone that wont die, .

[enterprikayak]

Looky what I just found...

this is pretty neat:

http://psiphon.civisec.org/


letting your friends/family in censored countries use your home computer connection to surf the net freely.

And hey! It's Canadian eh!

[blacknblue]

Looky what I just found...

this is pretty neat:

http://psiphon.civisec.org/


letting your friends/family in censored countries use your home computer connection to surf the net freely.

And hey! It's Canadian eh!

Once more, the futility of government attempting to prevent people from having access to the things that they decide they want to obtain is illustrated.


Since the first caveman smuggled the first bootleg magic charm into the cave from the rival shaman that lived in with the tribe across the valley so he could put a curse on the chief, no leader or government has ever been able to truly control the People's access to information or goods that they truly decide they want and are willing to pay for.

[Entilzha]

A nice effort but could also be used by people with not so good intentions.

[enterprikayak]

ooo it sure could. But it is a nice effort. also one could be caught using it in the censored country and incarcerated for life. but it's a necessary rebellion. nasty governments!

Since the first caveman smuggled the first bootleg magic charm into the cave from the rival shaman that lived in with the tribe across the valley so he could put a curse on the chief, no leader or government has ever been able to truly control the People's access to information or goods that they truly decide they want and are willing to pay for.

Well said Grasshopper! You are absolutely right.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Only one day left and then it's vacation time for moi! Yay!

Since I didn't have much of a vacation last year, I've now assembled enough to take a whooping eight weeks off...

[Entilzha]

http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Telecom-Package_Compromise-Amendments_ITRE-IMCO_7th-July if they pass this stuff in EU I'm gonna start mounting some heads on my wall

[Asso]

Pat, pat!

[blacknblue]

FYI, for whoever may have an interest.

I have been using some flavor of Debian Linux for years. I recently bought a new HP laptop which was hamstrung with Vista. Naturally the first thing I did was try Debian out on it. Alas, I could nto find a flavor that worked well with my new hardware. Even Mepis, my favorite, let me down this time. Straight Debian is just to open ended for me to mess with anymore. It changes too fast for a half-assed semi-geek like me to stay on top of things where straight Debian is concerned. I tried Sidux, but it had issues with my wireless and biult in webcam, sound cared, etc. Kubuntu didn't come close.

In desperation I wentback to the very first Linux flavor Ihad ever tried, whihc was Madrake. Now Mandriva. I encountered Linux by pure chance while browsing the shelves in some computer store oen day, and happened to stumble across a box containing Mandrake, which I bought on impulse. from that point I was hooked. But over the years since then I had drifted away to Debian.

Anyway, I needed SOMETHING, so I downloaded the latest Mandriva release and booted up, not really expecting much. I first knew somethign was different when I saw the nVidia splash screen. O Wonder of wonders! It recognized my video and auto configured it. I landed on the desktop and started checking around.

Webcam! I had webcam! Mike? yup. speakers worked perfect. Moviesplayed. music played. dvd burned perfectly. cds burned perfectly. everything t had configured itself, by itself, without me having to lift a finger.

wireless? Hm... no internet. What gives? I went to the start menu and clicked on internet, submenu connections. I chose the optionlabeled wireless.

It asked me, which do you want to activatee? and listed there was my wireless card! I clicked it. It asked me, which netwrok do you want to join? It listede my home LAN. I clicked it. I told me I was connected. I clicked ok. I opened Firefox.

here I am.

I am typing this on my new HP laptop, running Mandriva Linux, Where Vista made this sleek racehorse of a machine wheeze and gasp, struggling for every cycle, Linux is just purring along. Where Vista had my poor CPU cooking itself at red hot temperature, Linux is running cool and comfy.

By the way, i was playing Neverwinter Nights (the windows version) earlier. It ran smoother in Linux than it does in Vista. So do several other MS Windows programs.

[TPoptarts]

Okay here's a WTF moment. Like this 20something or 30something year old guy just met this Russian female exchange student, and he started like talking to her asking her out etc, telling her he'll buy her a drink and she's like "I'm under 21" and he's like "so??" and then she's like "I'm under 18" and he's like "how old are you??" and she's like "16" (she totally looks in her mid 20's though ), and like even after hearing that the gut KEEPS asking her out goes like "so we don't have to drink, we can do other stuff like get ice cream or something" until she says okay and goes to her room for a minute to change. And like while she's in her room this guy actually does an "I scored" dance!! What the frell!!! She's 16!!!! It's so disgusting.

[dark_rain]

FYI, for whoever may have an interest.

I have been using some flavor of Debian Linux for years. I recently bought a new HP laptop which was hamstrung with Vista. Naturally the first thing I did was try Debian out on it. Alas, I could nto find a flavor that worked well with my new hardware. Even Mepis, my favorite, let me down this time. Straight Debian is just to open ended for me to mess with anymore. It changes too fast for a half-assed semi-geek like me to stay on top of things where straight Debian is concerned. I tried Sidux, but it had issues with my wireless and biult in webcam, sound cared, etc. Kubuntu didn't come close.

In desperation I wentback to the very first Linux flavor Ihad ever tried, whihc was Madrake. Now Mandriva. I encountered Linux by pure chance while browsing the shelves in some computer store oen day, and happened to stumble across a box containing Mandrake, which I bought on impulse. from that point I was hooked. But over the years since then I had drifted away to Debian.

Anyway, I needed SOMETHING, so I downloaded the latest Mandriva release and booted up, not really expecting much. I first knew somethign was different when I saw the nVidia splash screen. O Wonder of wonders! It recognized my video and auto configured it. I landed on the desktop and started checking around.

Webcam! I had webcam! Mike? yup. speakers worked perfect. Moviesplayed. music played. dvd burned perfectly. cds burned perfectly. everything t had configured itself, by itself, without me having to lift a finger.

wireless? Hm... no internet. What gives? I went to the start menu and clicked on internet, submenu connections. I chose the optionlabeled wireless.

It asked me, which do you want to activatee? and listed there was my wireless card! I clicked it. It asked me, which netwrok do you want to join? It listede my home LAN. I clicked it. I told me I was connected. I clicked ok. I opened Firefox.

here I am.

I am typing this on my new HP laptop, running Mandriva Linux, Where Vista made this sleek racehorse of a machine wheeze and gasp, struggling for every cycle, Linux is just purring along. Where Vista had my poor CPU cooking itself at red hot temperature, Linux is running cool and comfy.

By the way, i was playing Neverwinter Nights (the windows version) earlier. It ran smoother in Linux than it does in Vista. So do several other MS Windows programs.

I believe doing an

apt-get install module-assistant

then

module-assistant prepare

then having a quick scour around would have yielded some success. I had similar issues with my wireless card, but serialmonkey sorted those out. But I'm clutching at straws. I can't stand RPM based distros. The package management is so much harder than apt based distros. Please come back to debian! (Just kidding, if its right for you, go for it!:))

[blacknblue]

I might do it eventually. But I looked online with another system and found that Debian, including Ubuntu, ha been consistently havign issues with my wireless card unless you use ndis-wrapper and windows drivers. Since my passionate crusade is to ESCAPE all things windows I could not force myself to go that route. Not when Mandriva just fell into place so beautifully without me having lift a finger. I mean EVERYTHIGN works. I plugged in the CD and booted up. Clicked the install button and fifteen minutes later I was using a fully installed, perfectly operating computer complete with office suite, multimedia, cd/dvd burning, wireless networking, newebcam (including vid-phone), games, full windows compatibility with Wine 1.1,..the whole nine yards. I didn't have to do ANYTHING else. No other distro I could find even came close. it flat out blew me away. I had no idea that Mandriva had improved this much over the years.

I still prefer Debian in principle, for obvious reasons. not just the package management although that is a biggie, but also the whole philosophy behind it. I figure in about six months Mepis 8.0 or maybe Kubuntu will catch up to my hardware and I might be able to switch back. Unless I am just hooked solid by then

I REALLY like this.

BTW, Mandriva had polished up their RPM Drake utility a lot too. Of course, the repository doesn't beging to compare to Debian's. It's ano brainer. I even went to the Audacity web site and click on teh download link. The browser defaulted to the package manager. I accepted the default, and it automatically selected the necessary dependencies for me without any further input, found them and downloaded them from the Mandriva repository automatically. I almost fainted.