Helping TomB understand what "GNU/Linux is all about"

TomB recently claimed that having even some distros work toward better productivity, efficiency, and error reduction through making their interfaces be more consistent across the system (having the system work more as a system" was somehow ...

Message posted on the December 20th, 2012 - 8:39 PM ET

[Troll] Here's what the Kreep considers a "lie" from me

Ezekreep wrote: "(What Michael Dell said) negates every 'idiotic lie' cola losers have ever drooled about Microsoft controlling OEMs." - trolling fsckwit "Ezekiel", lying shamelessly Another proven lie from turdv - making up ...

Message posted on the March 14th, 2013 - 03:03 pm ET

[gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices?

Hello, A USB serial device is identified by the characters "/dev/ttyUSB0". One might call this string a "device on your filesystem" and it can be opened/closed just like any other entry in the filesystem. An ethernet device is ...

Message posted on the June 07th, 2013 - 12:20 am ET

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?q

Aaa aAaa aaa a Am 17.08.2012 10:31 schrieb <meino.cramer@gmx.de>: Hi Alex, ...shot in the dark: Remove as much as possible of the cards,aadwqqqaaa www wpa www a weißes www aaaaaa Array www www www a aaa aaaaaa aadwqqqaaa aaa w ...

Message posted on the August 17th, 2012 - 04:40 am ET

how to figure out what is doing power management on my fresh sid laptop

Hi, I have a fresh install of debian rapidly upgraded to sid on a lenovo x220. I noticed it was not doing proper power management and battery was rapidly going to zero. I have tried googling and looked at such places as wiki.debian.org/Suspend but I ...

Message posted on the March 04th, 2012 - 10:40 am ET

What People Really Think About Linux and Open Source and The Fanatics Who Support It.

http://www.grumpynerd.com/?p2 Read the comments! They are hysterical ! And like the article, right on target when describing why Linux sucks and why the community is a collection of fanatics. Like this one for example: ***************Quote ...

Message posted on the May 05th, 2013 - 12:29 pm ET

What Carmack actually said about Linux

First, here's what he /didn't/ say: [quote] Linux development is another story altogether. Even though Valve is now actively pursuing the Linux market, iD has been there before, and just has not seen positive results. Remember how many past titles ...

Message posted on the August 10th, 2012 - 03:21 pm ET

What? Proprietary Google+ is a problem for those who want things open!

<http://bit.ly/11pNT20> Red Flag Privacy Warning: Google+ Hangout Has Gone Proprietary ... Google+ Hangouts is proprietary and there is now NO Transparency. No one except Google knows how the code is written or what it does or doesn't do. ...

Message posted on the May 26th, 2013 - 09:34 pm ET

[gentoo-dev] What did we achieve in 2012? What are our resolutions for 2013?

Happy New Year to all of you! Looking back at 2012, I wonder what we consider our achievements for this past year. What is the state of Gentoo? How have we brought it forward and improved it this past year? And what do we want to see in the coming ...

Message posted on the December 31st, 2012 - 09:20 am ET

Bug#653959: citadel-server was auto-selected and installed by dist-upgrade for what appears to be no good reason, and apt-get purge citadel-server failed to back out all system changes

Source: citadel-server Version: wheezy Severity: serious Tags: security Justification: Policy 3.5 apt-get dist-upgrade decided to install citadel-server (no I didn't know what it was) for who-knows-what reason. Install created a new publicly ...

Message posted on the January 01st, 2012 - 05:50 pm ET

Highlighting CLI output: what are these terms called?

The following page has a nice example of how to highlight text in logfiles: http://www.euperia.com/linux/how-to-highlight-keywords-when-using-tail/903 Here is the example: tail -f file.log | perl -pe 's/keyword/e[1;31;43m$&e[0m/g' What are ...

Message posted on the April 17th, 2013 - 04:30 am ET

What Linux freeware will blur faces & show all frames of a 30 second AVI video?

Q: What's the best freeware on Linux for editing AVIs? I need to edit a short 30-second AVI video from a Nikon D5000 & would like to ask what is the best Linux (Centos) freeware for the two tasks of: a) Blurring out a face for about 10 seconds ...

Message posted on the April 14th, 2013 - 12:05 am ET

Ping: TomB... I want to correct what you see is as a wrong

Hi, you claimed I was dodging your arguments... and I certainly have no desire or intention to do so! If I have missed something of value I would be happy to give you a full response. So please tell me what I have missed (or, in your view, ...

Message posted on the February 15th, 2013 - 03:57 pm ET

What is wrong with Chris Ahlstrom? Serious question.

Does anybody know what affliction Chris Ahlstrom is burdened with? Aspergers Syndrome? Adult Attention Deficit Disease? Paraphilic infantilism? Of is Chris Ahlstom just a poster child for assholery? He appears to be some kind of professional ...

Message posted on the November 18th, 2012 - 09:01 am ET

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